Fall For My Ex’s Mafia Father

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Daniel blinks at me for another second, I think a little appalled at my suggestion that he kill his uncle, before he sees the irony on my face and realizes that I’m making a dark joke. A bad joke, admittedly, but one I hope will break the tension.

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Thankfully, Daniel does laugh, shaking his head and dropping it a little as he tugs at the bow tie around his neck. “It’s so insane, Fay,” he sighs, and when he continues to fiddle with the tie I brush his hand away and untie it for him.

“It is,” I say, leaning in to put a hand on his cheek and make him look at me. “Honestly, Daniel, there’s so much we don’t know. And nothing else we can do about it, at least until tomorrow. So should we just…”

“…Get really drunk? And not talk about it?” he finishes for me, and I grin at him, glad that we’re on the same page. “Hell yeah,” he says as the bartender comes back and places our two drinks in front of us.

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We both grasp our glasses and clink them together as the bartender moves away, smiling at each other.

say, feeling a little hysterical, “which has survived,

engagement,” Daniel agrees, smiling with one half of his mouth as he shakes his head and downs his drink, signaling to the bartender for two more. I laugh and toss my shot of tequila down, savoring the burn in my throat, wanting the relaxation and tender oblivion that it

lightly to his, kissing him because I love him and because

Daniel laughs when I pull away, glancing around the room. “Come on, Fay,” he

moment, confused, and then slowly I start to look around the room and realize that everyone around us at the bar or the

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smile as I whip my face back to Daniel, thrilled. “Did

says, giving me a little smirk and raising his newly–delivered second Manhattan to me. “The most discreet, private,

word, looking around again, absolutely buzzing with curiosity. “Do

a hand on my shoulder and obliging me to sit back in my seat as he hands me my drink.

my eyes wide. “Do you own this

Green. It’s supposed to be anonymous. It’s kind of…the one place in the city where

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who sees me.”