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.

you, though!" she says with a big

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

says sharply then,

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

though, Aden is by

some trouble getting your drink?" Alexander, Carter, and Audrey go silent. They stare at Aden,

say, gesturing towards them. "These are my

on," he says, ignoring them and taking me

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

deal?" I murmur to Aden when

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

glances back at them and shakes his head. "We

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

glares at me and turns

It's definitely a smaller crowd than it

I notice that my father and stepmother are

me looking for them. "A problem with the baby," he says, shrugging. "They all

to me, though, and I turn my

who have, indeed, grown a little quiet.

Looking, largely, at us.

a hand then and just as