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.

though!" she says with a big smile. "Because

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

sharply then, nudging her with his

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 my

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

I say, gesturing towards them.

ignoring them and taking me

I let him pull me away. They all give me a little wave. As I walk

the big deal?" I murmur to Aden when we're out of

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

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

if I'm going to come to these things to meet my family, you have to

and turns away to survey the

It's definitely a smaller crowd than

at our table, I notice that my father

the baby,"

me, though, and I turn

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.

hand then and