Fall For My Ex’s Mafia Father

Chapter 0356

Predictably, the courtroom is packed with journalists and other members of the press. Kent has known for a long time that he’s been a person of public interest – that damn Mafia King nickname had done some real damage when it was first applied to him – and whispers start around the room as he walks in wearing his orange jumpsuit, his wrists cuffed.

Kent clenches his jaw, refusing to meet any of their eyes, his gaze going immediately to the front of the room where his team of lawyers wait, and to Daniel and Jerome, sitting in the first gallery row behind them. Kent’s heart sinks, just a little bit, when he sees that Fay isn’t there with them.

What he’d give to see her, just for a moment – just a glimpse.

She’s got to be in her second trimester by now, which means she’ll be showing – if just a little bit. He wants to know everything – absolutely everything about it. But he also understands: if Fay and Daniel are trying to go legitimate, to convince the world that Daniel is her husband and the father of her child, then she can’t have anyone see her relationship with Daniel’s father as anything but a disgraced father-in-law.

It makes sense.

But god damn it, it hits him right in the heart.

Daniel gives him a little smile, just the corner of his mouth pulling up, and Kent nods to him, and then to Jerome sitting beside him.

For a moment, as Kent passes to the group of his lawyers sitting at the front of the room, he considers how weird it is that Jerome is always around. He glances over his shoulder, frowning at the young man who he picked up basically off the streets, never intending for him to be any more than a low-level runner. And now he was the only one Daniel and Fay bailed out of jail? And he was, essentially, living with them?

the hell

a mental note to ask Daniel next time they speak alone, but then he sighs considering that…well, it doesn’t really matter, does it? Jerome is in. And

speaking and Kent’s lawyers kick into gear, giving their responses and making their arguments. Kent glances over at the lawyers for the state, noticing for the first time that Ivan is over there as well, apparently waiting in case he needs to be called as a witness. But then

a formality – the teams have come to an understanding, and the judge will only really deny it if she has

a little bit, which he never does, glancing down at the paperwork on the table and passively reading some of the words. But as he looks closer,

every piece of

What?

over everything on the table, noting Fay’s chaotic cursive notes on nearly every document that the lawyers have brought today – which were only updated yesterday

was she involved? Fay doesn’t have a law degree – and while she’s certainly clever enough to

she wanted him to take this plea deal, but he had assumed it

fact that she’s not just leaving it up to the lawyers? That she’s apparently going over every bit

he realizes that…that Fay is fighting for him. And he doesn’t get it – he

herself in the middle, when she should be

with happiness and pride. Because his girl is out there, and she’s

doesn’t really know if he