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

again with the rest of the cash

left yourself open. For anyone else to claim,

wish it.”

stare at the cash on the table, realizing, suddenly,

of what happened tonight.

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Kent continues, picking up

“Your dad, in this world? He’s not

like you, but he’s small shakes. And he’s getting weaker. I

he has resources I’d like to use.”

it with the rest of coins. “But,” Kent continues, “Alden’s trading you,” he slides the penny to sit next to the dime, “to the highest bidder. For

into Kent’s eyes, then,

is that fish,”

look back down

there.

Fay,” Kent

that you want to be in this world.”

the room. Hear him open the door, hear it close behind him.

reach forward to touch. the penny, thinking deeply about where it is that I

misunderstood and miscalculated the complicated politics of this world. A party is never just

into that

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little metaphor

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