Fall For My Ex’s Mafia Father

Chapter 324

Kent stares at me for a moment, going completely still – not even blinking. I think he even forgets to breathe.

And then he hauls in a hard breath, choking on it a little as he take a stumbling step back. I can’t help but laugh, thrilled a little at the result. It’s not often that anyone sees Kent Lippert off balance, and I have to admit I enjoyed the sight.

“Seriously, Fay?” Kent asks, raising his eyebrows at me and taking one hand off my waist to cover his mouth as he coughs, recovering from his surprise. “Are you are you serious?”

“You don’t want to?” I ask, frowning a little, pretending to shrink away.

“No!” he says, grabbing at my waist and pulling me back, making me smile, though I try not to make it too victorious. “I

mean yes – or

or –” he takes a moment to steel himself, glaring down at me a little, perhaps figuring out that I’ve intentionally surprised him.

“Believe me, Fay,” Kent murmurs, his voice husky and slow now that he’s recovered himself, “there’s absolutely nothing I’d rather to do than teach you this particular skill.” And he takes a moment, then, to let his eyes drop to my mouth, to raise a hand to my face and run his thumb lingeringly over my lower lip. “I’m just…surprised that you don’t want to talk.”

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ask, perhaps too innocently, looking up at him with

me now. “About Natalia,” he says. “I’m not unaware that you weren’t thrilled to see her

a bit. “If you’d rather me go get her so that she can blow you

laughs – a surprised, happy thing – and pulls me back against him, which makes me grin. “Not a

I shove the thoughts of Lenai away. “Seriously, Kent,” I say, shaking my head a little bit and putting my hands flat against his chest as he tugs me closer. “Didn’t you say to trust you about Natalia?” I shrug one shoulder. “I trust you.”

under my chin and making me pause and look up at him. “Really, Fay?” he asks, likewise quite serious. “Because…Fay, I don’t want you to hide it, if you’re feeling bad about it. Or do this because you think it will make me like you more than her.

– We can

for a moment, that I’m

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so that my face is as close to his as I can get it, so

gaze the whole time. “I want something besides words

now.”