Fall For My Ex’s Mafia Father

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I frown at him, confused. So, he obliges me with an explanation.

“You see, Fay,” Kent says, unfolding his arms and looking down at his desk. “Your father changed the game tonight, and you let him

do it.”

He takes a handful of change from his pocket and scatters it on

the desk. I look between him and the money, confused. Then he slides one penny forward out of the mix.

“The only thing that was protecting you in this world, Fay,” Kent

continues, “was your engagement to Daniel. As a soon–to–be member of my family, you had my protection.”

He takes two quarters, placing them next to the penny, blocking

the penny off from the rest of the change.

“But,” he continues, “tonight your father opened the opportunity

for you to show the world where your allegiance lies. And, in

leaving Daniel behind,” he moves the penny around the quarters

that it mingles again with the rest

anyone else to claim, should

wish it.”

cash on the table, realizing, suddenly,

what

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picking up a little dime

“Your dad, in this world? He’s not

shakes. And he’s

because he

the dime back on the table, mixing it with the rest of coins. “But,” Kent continues, “Alden’s trading you,” he slides the penny to sit next to the dime,

into Kent’s eyes, then,

fish,” I say quietly.

I look back down

there.

Fay,” Kent says quietly. “About

it is that you want to be in

hear his footsteps cross the room.

the penny, thinking deeply about where it is that

greatly misunderstood and miscalculated the complicated politics of this

fallen into that trap.

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in Kent’s little metaphor doesn’t quite

penny that represents me, my eyes glancing at my million–dollar engagement ring as I do.