Forbidden Temptation My Mafia Fiance's Alpha Father

Chapter 42

Chapter 42 Brooklyn

For all the drama the day I chose my wedding dress-Aden's reaction to me in it, the wine and secrets I shared with Jayde, the porn room, the violence I witnessed-the next several days are unremarkable. As I fall into the routines of the Kenwood house, I'm surprised to find that I'm quickly bored by them.

Life at my home with Stephen and Jolie was boring-but we were just normal people.

A little of me, I think, expected everyday mafia life to be more exciting.

It's not that the house is empty. Every day starts with a flurry of activity. Breakfast in the kitchen is a big affair, with everyone rushing through.

Aden's top guys-mostly older gentlemen-drink their tiny glasses of espresso at a table in the corner, bantering. Lower-level guys, dressed in thousand-dollar sweatsuits, run briskly through, reporting and getting new orders.

Guards are everywhere, watching everything, but mostly wishing that they were important enough to be included with the others.

As the day passes, everyone spreads out to do their work.

Hudson goes out a lot. To school, mostly, wrapping up his spring semester. I've been expressly forbidden to go with him, to school or anywhere else.

Apparently, I'm still a kidnapping target. Aden has told the mafia world that I'm out there, but until he locks me down as part of his family, I'm forbidden any freedom.

Hudson left me behind, Jayde had come into the house just as he was leaving. Seeing my sad face, she wrapped an arm around my shoulders, her voice full of

little squeeze. "It's like you're a mafia widow already, stuck in this house. Might as well dress yourself head to toe in black and spend your day saying the

moaned, slumping my shoulders forward in misery. "It's so

not a lot going on in this house at all times, it's just

Everyone

polite to me. They smile at

me in the hall.

talks to me, even if I try. I get the impression

and she's very sweet, but we

girlfriend. She's sweet, funny, and has enough bite in her wit to

incredibly sexy, but she spends most of her day building and

getting her hair and her nails done. When she's in the house, she's doing aerobics, or facials and beauty treatments, or playing with makeup and clothes. Jayde always looks stunning and keeps

giving me a whole master's course in makeup and hair care that I never, ever would have even thought about

so much of the world just seems... ridiculous to me.

everything right, you'll always look twenty years younger," she says. "Especially with your shifter

looking your age? I think. After all, Aden is older. He looks his

and move my thoughts on to

with my colleagues, miss helping people, even miss going to

thought I'd

to the coffee shop, miss