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 to control, but…

God damn it.

real, true pull towards her that he hasn’t

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wife. And the pull–it’s inexorable. Heavy, like the chain of an anchor wrapped around his feet. Like

of the earth.

make her submit –

knows, it’s like 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 her. Makes

he might

the voice inside himself whispers. Just swim

god damn it, he can’t. He can’t.

in to just this one thing, the

or a loose string on a sweater. It

Kent lays for hours on that floor, trapped, stuck

between opposing forces. The first

it all collapse as he takes her in his

insidious twin, however, still whispers into his ear

just pushes a little harder…he can

he can have her in his world,

can make

path to take, because he knows that these are the only two paths in

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