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

he seeks

God damn it.

her that he hasn’t felt since

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the pull–it’s inexorable. Heavy, like the chain of an anchor wrapped

the earth.

the need to break her, to make her submit – it was all a fight against the power

all he wants, but Fay is the force that calls the still waters within him to her. Makes them

thinks he might

in, the voice inside himself whispers. Just swim

god damn it, he can’t. He

gives in to just this one thing, the

string on a sweater. It will all fall apart.

hours on that floor, trapped, stuck like

torn between opposing forces. The first

stronger one, is to let it all collapse as he takes her in his arms.

still whispers

pushes a little harder…he

he can have her in his world, just as

he can make her

it, truly torn over the question of which path to take, because he knows that these are the only two paths in his life. Because any option

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