Fall For My Ex’s Mafia Father

Chapter 127

“Oh!” I says, and then I give Kent a big smile. I’m excited, after all.

“Out, actually! Daniel just came by and asked me if I want to go to

dinner.”

Kent smiles at me then, just raising the little corner of his mouth. “The black, then,” he says, nodding towards a little minidress still hanging in my closet. “That’s better, for a city dinner.”

I considers the dress, which is really just a scrap of fabric. I pull it out and look it up and down. “You don’t think it’s too…” I say,

hesitating and looking up at him, a little embarrassed. “Well,

slutty?”

Kent laughs a little at this, leaning against my door frame. “The

whole point of going to a chic restaurant in the city is to wear a

dress like that and make your boyfriend jealous when all the other

men stare at you. That’s why a dress like that exists.”

I look back at the dress then, surprised and a little excited. I had

never thought about it that way. I sneak a little glance at Kent,

then, still leaning there in my doorway, wondering what he’d think

me on Daniel’s arm, in this

take it off the hanger and lay

the question

over to my vanity but stop dead

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next question.

marry

at

issue. “Do

him?”

2/3

was all of this

moment to plan my next words. “I didn’t realize that

I say, keeping my voice

to say yes at the altar,” Kent replies,

low and husky.

think, then, realizing very suddenly that this

this is a negotiation. I

him then, folding my arms over her chest.

don’t want to go to my father’s house,” I say, evading the

to stay here.” Because that,

really about. Kent,

or not I actually marry Daniel – our

it’s my allegiance.

says, his eyes drifting down