Fall For My Ex’s Mafia Father

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I dash from the room, pounding down the stairs that lead to the second floor, my mind set on nothing but the safety of my room, my bed, my closed door-

But as I turn onto the second–floor landing, I slams into someone coming up the steps from the house’s first level.

“Whoa!” the person says, gasping in surprise and perhaps a

little pain. “What-“.

Frantic, I work to push beyond them, feeling and seeing nothing

beyond the tears in my eyes that stream down my cheeks. I’m a

bit feral now, like a rabbit doing anything it can to get back to my

warren – I’ve just got to get inside, where I can be alone –

“Fay,” the voice says, worried and stern. He grasps me by my

shoulders and I gasp, looking up, shocked to see Kent’s face –

a face like Kent’s, but softer, younger – Daniel.

–

whispers, urgent.

at Daniel, my mouth hanging open, not knowing what to say. My eyes flick to the door to my bedroom – there’s no

conversation now. I just – I can’t.

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– I know that I haven’t been fair to Daniel in all of this –

look once over my shoulder at Daniel as I

the stairs up to the third floor, putting things together. Does he

does next,

panting a little. The dark of

body start to ease, my pounding

paint, my mind absolutely reeling. But as the minutes pass, and as I lean into the safety of my room, I’m able to

damn it. God damn it. What the

and letting it drop to the floor. Kent standing in the doorway, looking at me like a wolf at

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his hand, his fingers, down