Fall For My Ex’s Mafia Father

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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

a woman he seeks to

God damn it.

real, true pull towards her that he

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

the earth.

this, all of this? The scaring her, the need to break her, to make her submit – it was all a fight against the power of that pull.

like the ocean fighting the moon’s sway over the tides. He can crash all he wants, but Fay is the

he

in, the voice inside himself whispers. Just swim

it, he

if Kent gives in to just this one

string on a sweater. It will

on that floor,

to a board, torn between opposing forces.

collapse as he takes her

insidious twin, however, still whispers

he just pushes a little harder…he

he can have her in his world, just as

can make her fit.

because he knows that these are the only two paths in his life. Because any option that keeps Fay

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