Forbidden Temptation My Mafia Fiance's Alpha Father

Chapter 49

Chapter 49 Aden

I storm into the dining room, where the table is set for four.

I sit down hard in my chair at the head of the table, waving at the place settings on either side of me. "Remove these," I tell the waitstaff, barely getting the words out due to my frustration. "Have Hudson's and Brooklyn's plates sent up to Brooklyn's room. They'll take their supper there."

The staff don't think I can see them giving each other worried looks as they silently do as they're told. No matter. They do not concern me right now.

The chef comes out next, looking around the room.

"Sir?" he asks, his French accent heavy in the word. "Will you be dining alone?"

"Apparently," I say, angry that Jayde isn't here, either.

What would it take to get some respect in this house? It's times like this I wish I had actually become the Alpha I was born to be, to be able to compel people to do as I wished.

To compel Brooklyn to stop crying.

"Please bring out the meal," I grit out.

The chef nods, impassive, and heads back into the kitchen.

A few moments later he appears again with the first course salmon tartare with a small side salad and a freshly sliced French baguette.

ignore the fish and reach for the warm bread, slathering it with butter as I sit back in my chair, trying to

them from going to her.

couldn't take looking at her tonight, sitting there in

mood, to cajole her out of it, to scare her out of it by pounding on the

bread, angry with myself for not

way my feelings had so much control

dash up those stairs and so something-anything-to make

just asserted upstairs. Kicking me out

like it.

weeks. Tried to distract myself, to busy myself with work and plans. Tried to ignore her when she walked into a room, the light lily scent of her shampoo drifting through

expressions of her face when she feels

to push the images away,

from somewhere deep in her soul. I love to prod

I lost my control. When I caught her spying on me in the basement, for instance, and chased her up the stairs, pinned her against the hall of

wolf had been

turn her around right there, press her up against the wall, press the length of myself up against her ass as I slipped my hand beneath her skirt. I'd teach her a lesson about what it meant to defy me, to defy a shifter

my fist, crushing it, ruining it. Then I drop it to

me. She made me lose it-lose absolute control

she has absolutely no

rid of her, I realize

back to the old country to our family there, where they'd be safe

of it, of them building a life together, of her smiling