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 little redheaded Baby

Only one other person calls me that— "We used to play with you at family parties," she

sharply then, nudging her with his

Audrey says, lifting her fingers 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

though, Aden is by

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

gesturing towards

on," he says, ignoring them and taking me

away. They all give me a little wave. As I walk away, I

to Aden when

them," Aden says, bringing me back to the table. "And if

shakes his head. "We can't take risks like that,

at him. "Aden, if I'm going to come to these things to meet my family, you have to let me, you know. Meet

at me and turns away to survey the room

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

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

me looking for them. "A problem with the

and I

the people left in the room now, who have, indeed, grown a little quiet. There are very few

Looking, largely, at us.

and just as