Fall For My Ex’s Mafia Father

Chapter 146

“No,” Kent answers, interrupting my train of thought, his voice low and flat. “Too much damage has been done. Your relationship is a laughing stock now. It’s dead.” He flicks his eyes to Daniel then. “I’ll find you a new bride, soon. One a little more manageable than

this one.”

I blush at this, looking down at my hands, feeling terribly guilty. I

had thought it was just a date with Ivan – a little freedom. I hadn’t realized how much I was ruining.

“Dad,” Daniel says, leaning forward in his chair, “this can’t be the end of it – I like Fay – she’s precisely the girl I want to marry –”

“It’s done, Daniel,” Kent intones, dismissive, looking down at a thin document on his desk. “Forget it. Move on. I’ll arrange for your first date with an appropriate girl sometime this week.” Daniel apparently forgotten, Kent shoves the document in my direction, looking directly at me.

“You’re still an important person in this world, Fay,” he says cooly, and I feel myself surprised to hear him admit what I’ve long suspected. That my relationship with the family means something to him. “I’d still like to have you formally tied to the Lippert family, to be known and understood as one of mine. Here is the offer I’d like to make you, in exchange for your allegiance.”

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I hesitate, glancing at Daniel before reaching forward and taking the document off the desk. I page through it, not understanding most of the legal wording there, until I get to the third page which

details…

eyes going

disbelief. “Is this – is this for

nods, studying me. “Yes, Fay. One

of your childhood home

to your adoptive

house, in your name, so you can spend your spare time there with

choose. I don’t care which house – you

him confirm what I saw

digest this in silence, my eyes fixed on Kent, his

on me.

you want from me?” I ask quietly. “What

me to do?”

to turn on your

that I can wipe out his power in this world

myself. I’ll direct your every move, don’t

relationship with Ivan, to

and ally with

in shock, staring up at his audacity. But,

brilliant…