Fall For My Ex’s Mafia Father

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Jerome and I each give a little shout of surprise as I smack bodily into him.I stumble back a few steps, wheeling my arms a little to find my balance. Jerome is there, luckily, catching me by the shoulders and holding me steady.

“Well, Miss Fay,” he says, his voice hardly more than a whisper as he glances towards the office door. “And where were you last night?”

“Nowhere,” I say, smug, shaking my hair back from my

shoulders and gathering up my dignity as I find my balance. Jerome releases me, crossing his arms smugly over his chest as he grins at me. “I was just…getting a pen. From the office.”

“Fay,” Jerome says, his face breaking out into a wicked smile. “If you think I don’t know whose bedroom is through the bookcase in that office

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LL

“What!” I hiss, my face dropping. “Does everyone know the secrets of his house except me!?”

Jerome just laughs, shaking his head. “So, how was he, Fay? Come on. I’m dying to know.”

“Ew,” I say, wrinkling my nose at him. “You’re seriously asking this about your boss?”

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just asking – you’re the one taking action with your maybe–father–in–law –”

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gall and then I realize something, glancing at the stairs. Jerome – he was coming down them. At four in the morning. I

rooms.

were you, Jerome?” I ask, crossing my arms and blinking up innocently at him. “Speaking of taking action within the Lippert family did you happen to see my maybe–fiancé

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Then, making a quick decision, Jerome grabs my hand and pulls me towards the

we doing here?”

rack next to the sink. “So that we have a reason why we’re talking, if anyone comes across us. We both just came down here, independently, and happened to

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think this story is a little unnecessarily elaborate. Jerome pours me a glass and hands it to

Own.

where he left off, “Daniel

up at Jerome with

usually doesn’t…I mean, he doesn’t let me come up to his room with him unless

wide, tilting my

his lips at me a little. “All of this and

still wanting to know. He