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.

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

I can't stop them from going to

there in her

to break the mood, to cajole her out of it, to scare her out of it by pounding on the wall. But

teeth between bites of bread, angry with myself for not being able to pull

my feelings had so

wanting, even now, to dash up those stairs and so something-anything-to make

Hudson's problem now, a right that Hudson just asserted upstairs. Kicking me out

wolf...doesn't like it.

and plans. Tried to ignore her when she walked

her face when she feels surprised,

my eyes tightly for a moment, trying to push the images

drags up from somewhere deep in her soul. I love to prod her, to push her, to raise that fire in her. To

When I caught her spying on me in the basement, for instance, and chased her up the stairs, pinned her against the hall of her room, saw the passion in her, then the

had been right there, tantalizing

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 with Alpha blood, to defy a man with as much power as

the slice of the bread within my fist, crushing it, ruining it. Then I

She made me lose it-lose absolute control of

she has absolutely no

rid of her, I realize

the old country to our

it, of them building a life together, of her smiling at my son, while she