Forbidden Temptation My Mafia Fiance's Alpha Father

Chapter 45

Chapter 45

Chapter 45

Brooklyn

Aden was smart to butter me up with a new horse.

Because now, as I sit in the back seat of the black car, all by myself, I look up at the stone mansion in front of me and grimace.

I am not looking forward to this. Dinner with my father, the man I barely knew existed.

The man I'm not sure I like very much at all, and who isn't sure he trusts me in return.

I know that there should probably be some curiosity in me, some desire to know more about my family and my heritage.

But honestly? Lennox Remington doesn't feel anything like my father. That, to me, will always be Stephen.

Aden sent two guards along with me and instructed them to stay by me at all times.

For protection, presumably. But also-I think-to be Aden's eyes and ears at the meeting.

Remington is his ally, but even the term "ally" in this underworld has some tenuous distrust built into it.

I begged Hudson to come with me, but Aden denied that, too.

Remington, apparently, wanted me all to himself.

Great. I was already feeling uncomfortable enough about this whole situation. But now, to go into it alone? This was definitely going to be a disaster.

out of the front of the car after they park and come around to open my

was anywhere else. The stables,

the front

my mouth at the irony here. If he's my dad, if

us a kind smile before pulling the door all the way open

we step in, I stop dead in

okay?" one asks. Joshua, I think.

I murmur in response, staring around

reality? I'm

is like walking into a dream. I've been here

some of the corners, what things will feel like,

burnt orange, thick and plush underneath my feet. The arch that

hutch, filled with blue and

my god," I whisper, looking around as I slowly walk through

maid hesitates. "Dinner isn't ready yet, miss," she says. "If you'll come with me

I can't help myself as I walk to the back of the room and push open the door to the kitchen.

footsteps

"Familiar, is it?"

standing behind me in the kitchen. I search his face,

at the kitchen, as if lost in his

here," he says. "Your mother, the maids, or

out all of the pots and pans. Bang on them, or pretend you were

went to live with Stephen; I

it was flooding back... But why had it

for a moment and then nods

"I want to introduce

my gaze still darting around the

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