Forbidden Temptation My Mafia Fiance's Alpha Father

Chapter 56

Chapter 56

Brooklyn

"Really?" I ask, nodding to the bartender who hands me a glass of wine. "Are we really cousins?" "Sure," he says, laughing. "I'm Alexander, this is Carter," he says, indicating the slightly smaller version of himself next to him. "And our sister Audrey."

I raise my eyebrows in surprise. "Wow, it's really nice to meet you all."

"Not quite cousins," Audrey corrects him, leaning in familiarly to talk to me.

Her words are just a little bit slurred. Not sloppy, but I can tell she's had a couple of drinks. "We're second cousins! Your dad is our mom's cousin, which means-" she screws up her face in thought, thinking, "— we have great-grandparents in common. Then again, most wolf shifters can trace themselves back to some common family member."

I take a sip from my glass. "Um, my family-I mean, the family I was adopted into-we didn't pay a lot of attention to that sort of thing. So to find out I have great-grandparents and second cousins all in one day..."

I raise my eyebrows in emphasis, and they laugh, nodding.

"Yeah," Alexander says. "It must be a lot, to go from nothing into a big Italian wolf pack like this."

Something about the way he says that gets under my skin. Sure, we didn't have an extended family, but where I came from was hardly nothing.

Before I can protest, Audrey speaks.

big smile. "Because

says that. Baby Brooklyn... Only one other person calls me that— "We used to play with you at family parties," she continues. "Like,

then,

to her mouth. She rushes to continue, then, trying to move the conversation on. "Yeah, anyway, I remember you when you were so little on the slip-n-slide-" "Wait," I say, putting out a hand to

Aden is by

trouble getting your drink?"

I say, gesturing towards them. "These are

says, ignoring them and

them and grimace a little, shrugging as I let him pull me away. They all give me a little wave. As I walk away, I see Alexander say something sharp to Audrey, who

to Aden when we're out

to the table. "And if

them and shakes his head.

come to these things to meet my family, you have to let me,

and turns away to survey the

are starting to filter out, I notice. It's definitely a smaller crowd than it

glance at our table, I notice that my father

"A problem with the baby," he says, shrugging. "They

to me, though, and

at the people left in the room now, who have, indeed, grown a little quiet. There are very few children left, mostly men in suits standing quietly at

Looking, largely, at us.

out a hand then and