Forbidden Temptation My Mafia Fiance's Alpha Father

Chapter 63

Chapter 63 Aden

We stand like that for a moment, my hands on Brooklyn's waist, her leaning back against me just an instant, really, before she pushes away and loops her horse's reins over his head, using them as a lead. Finally, Brooklyn turns to me. She swallows, her smile faltering.

"Thanks for the lift," she says, and we start to make our way back towards the stables.

"Last night," I hear myself say, my hands in my pockets. "Before...everything..."

Brooklyn looks up at me, wary. Clearly, she doesn't want to talk about it.

Still, I press on. "Did you enjoy it? Meeting your family?"

"Oh," she says, surprised, and I wonder what she thought I was referring to.

"Honestly, I kind of forgot about the good part." She looks forward again. "I mean yeah, I enjoyed it at the start. It's surprising. I never knew I had such a big family."

"It's pretty standard for us," I tell her. "In this world, people tend to come from large families and large packs. I don't know what a family gathering looks like with less than eighty people."

I pause. "Something in my blood, that pack mentality, must be drawn to it, too."

Brooklyn tilts her head curiously. "So do you have lots of siblings?"

"No." I shake my head. "I'm a rare only child. My mother could only have me." When a look of confusion crosses her face, I explain, "Complications at my birth."

leads Heathcliff into his stall. I follow her. "I'm

six. I grew

siblings.'

"But that was why it was so devastating to my father when I denied

cocks her head. "Why did you deny your

wink. "I didn't

the Mafia has rules,

Clever girl.

those are rules I

her

the topic at hand

know, I met

cousins last night-second cousins,

even."

watching her. She's already

you'll lose track of

something funny last

saddle over to hang it over the stall door." was talking to my second cousins and they called me 'Baby Brooklyn,' just like Jayde does, and they said that they

for a

you

cousin all along, and you just never

My heart starts racing.

tell her, grabbing Brooklyn by