Fall For My Ex’s Mafia Father

Chapter 174

Because that’s what it’s all about, after all, Kent thinks ruefully.

Control. Everything is about control – controlling his life, his world,

the underworld, his business ventures, the threats to his power

and everything he and his family have built. He has to keep a tight

fist around all of it – absolutely all of it – or it will fall apart.

And Fay-

Somehow, fucking Fay-

This wisp of a girl, this tiny, naïve, coltish thing who knows absolutely nothing about this world –

Somehow, she is the thing that threatened to undo it all. Because

she makes him absolutely lose control. With her, he has no idea

what he will do next.

And the intensity of how he feels towards her – how much he wants her… Yes, on one level it’s a physical desire – but Kent is forced to admit, now, laying on the floor staring at his ceiling that it goes beyond that. That the magnitude of what he feels is not just

for a woman he seeks

God damn it.

true pull towards her that he hasn’t

Chapter 174

2/3

the pull–it’s inexorable. Heavy, like the chain of an anchor wrapped around his feet. Like gravity, with Fay at the

of the

make her submit – it was all a fight against the power

the ocean fighting the moon’s sway over the tides. He can crash all he wants, but Fay is the force that calls the still waters within him to

thinks he might

voice inside himself whispers. Just swim down.

it, he

just this one thing, the rest will fall – like

or a loose string on a sweater. It will all

so Kent lays for hours on that floor, trapped, stuck

to a board, torn between opposing forces.

collapse as

desire’s insidious twin, however, still whispers into

a little harder…he can

can have her in his world, just as he

make her

torn over the question of which path to take, because he knows that these are the only two paths in

Chapter 174