Fall For My Ex’s Mafia Father

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I cover my mouth with my hand, my fingers brushing against Kent’s bare knee pressed against my face, desperate to hush the sound of my panting breath.

A string of obscenities flics through my head as I press my eyes shut, praying frantically that Alessi didn’t see me – that he doesn’t peek around the side of Kent’s desk and see him sitting in his desk chair with no pants on.

Next to me, Kent’s leg begins to shake and tremble. And I know he has precisely the same fear.

“Not so late, Alessi,” Kent sighs, and I’m shocked to hear how composed he sounds, especially as I’m almost gasping with fear down here.

“Eh, perhaps I just remember you from our youth in Italy,” Alessi says fondly, “always carly to bed for Kent. But yes.” A pause here, and I imagine him giving a casual shrug, “perhaps things have changed.”

“What can I help you with, Alessi?” Kent says, snapping a little. I go even more still now, hoping that he doesn’t piss Alessi off. He needs to get him out of here – as fast as he can not to start a fight.

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“Just coming to speak with my brother–in–law,” Alessi murmurs, his voice a bit more sly than I’m used to. “Natalia is very…cager. To have things settled with you. Have you considered her offer?”

against which I am currently pressed. I see a shadow darken the line and then the creaking of a chair. I again

he’s staying awhile.

Shit.

didn’t move around the

at the long length of his leg that presses against me. “No, Alessi,” Kent sighs.

“But Natalia

Kent interrupts smoothly before pausing and, I assume, giving Alessi a dark glare.

cards.”

sighs. “It would make my father very happy,” he says slowly, “to renew the ties between our families.”

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enough of a tic?” Kent asks, his voice sharp.

is a wonderful boy, we love him very much,” Alessi says smoothly. “But he is…not as involved in the business as wel would like. And if he continues to be unattached to the Lippert business, then it would be better for us to…renew

her,” Kent says, his voice quiet and blunt. “So,

of breath. “I understand. But perhaps…we need

enough?” Kent asks, and I can tell that he’s starting to lose his temper now. “Everything else that we’ve done? The money flows into Italy – I know how much we’ve brought in for

is not about the money,” Alessi snaps.

done anything to defy your trust,” Kent