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.

a big smile.

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

then,

mouth. She rushes to continue, then, trying to move the conversation on. "Yeah, anyway, I remember

though, Aden is

you have some trouble getting your drink?" Alexander, Carter,

I say, gesturing towards them. "These

them and taking

let him pull me away. They all give me a

to

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

and shakes his head. "We can't

to these things to

glares at me and turns away to survey

It's definitely a smaller crowd than

notice that my father and stepmother are gone, which,

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

next to me, though, and

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

Looking, largely, at us.

then and just as he