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.

says with a big smile. "Because you were our

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

sharply then, nudging

trying to move the conversation on. "Yeah, anyway, I remember

is

asks, looking sternly at my new cousins. "Did you have some trouble getting your drink?" Alexander, Carter, and Audrey go silent. They

say, gesturing towards them.

ignoring them and

them and grimace a little, shrugging as I let him pull me away. They all give me a

deal?" I murmur to Aden when we're

don't know them," Aden says, bringing me back to the table. "And if I don't know them, they're

them and shakes his head. "We can't take

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

and turns away to survey

out, I notice. It's definitely a smaller

that my father and stepmother are gone, which, I can't explain

for them. "A problem with the baby," he says, shrugging.

next to me, though, and I turn my eyes

indeed, grown a little quiet. There are very few children left, mostly men in suits standing quietly

Looking, largely, at us.

and just as he grips