Forbidden Temptation My Mafia Fiance's Alpha Father

Chapter 29

Chapter 29 Brooklyn

I realize, suddenly, that although Remington is my real father, I am terrified of him.

That if this is what he's like the first time meeting his daughter, then I can't imagine the kind of things my mother must have gone through. The moods she must have experienced, the cruelty, enough to make her pack up and leave him, to give up everything she'd ever known to keep me away.

And yet here I am, in the place she was so desperate to leave behind.

I know I didn't have a choice. I know Aden threatened Stephen and Jolie. But somehow, I wish I could have fought harder against all of this.

"You cannot hurt him," I say through gritted teeth. "He let me go."

"That doesn't change the fact that he stole you in the first place."

I clench my fists by my side. How much denial could a person be in? Stephen didn't steal my mother. She ran. And that's Remington's fault, not his.

knew I was about to say something I'd deeply regret, Aden's voice rings out behind me, cool and calm. I close my eyes in relief at the sound, remembering he is still right there. I know, deep down,

him. Unlike Aden, he chose to be an Alpha. He didn't cast it aside. Aden is beneath

engagement pact is going to hold up, after all these years. Your daughter is engaged to my son." He nods at Hudson, who steps forward. "I anticipate

growl is low in his throat. I can only imagine how his pack, those that do his dirty

is a trick," he says. "How can they be engaged, when you just found her yesterday?" Hudson is the one who answers

says, standing up straighter. "We were already dating, actually." No mention, conveniently,

and then over at mine, and suddenly realize that this was always the

really about our engagement. It was a way

have the one thing Remington wants more than anything: the last remaining

must be in on

I want to marry Hudson. Because Hudson, too, is a player

to say so, against my better judgment, but Remington

to see how all of this plays out. "A uniting of the families will do a

turns his attention back to me and I see his face soften. Truly, he is

takes both my hands in his own, kissing them

say in a rush, before I can