Forbidden Temptation My Mafia Fiance's Alpha Father

Chapter 81

Chapter 81

Brooklyn

I study the invitation in my hand.

"A...beach party?" I say, cocking my head to the side.

"It's about an hour away," Aden tells me. "Friends and family only, apparently. Some kind of ritual, a gathering for those close to Remington."

I look up at Aden my eyebrow raised. "Did you...read my mail?"

He stares at me impassively, not needing to confirm.

I study the envelope, wondering how the hell he re-sealed it, and then why he bothered to reseal it...

"Brooklyn," Aden says sharply, and I look up to see that he's frustrated with me. As usual. "Are you going to go?"

I look back at the invitation and see, in particular, that it's made out to me.

No mention of Aden or Hudson. Apparently, it's a private party.

"Am I...allowed to go?" I ask, looking back up at him.

Aden shrugs.

"I'll send you with my guards. There's no real reason to refuse. You said you wanted freedom."

Aden says the final words ruefully, but my lips crook into a smile, recognizing my language from this morning.

He was listening. He's trying.

"Okay," I say, moving towards Aden and then past him, walking down the hallway to where a man is waiting by the front door.

"Are you the messenger my father sent?" I ask.

The messenger just bows a little, which I assume is a confirmation."

I smile. "Please tell him that I'm happy to accept."

The messenger nods, reaching for the handle of the door so he can go deliver the reply.

"Oh," I stop him. "Would you tell my father that we might be late? I apologize it will take us some time to get ready."

The messenger hesitates, and then ventures a word. "We?"

smile broadly. "Yes," I say, turning for the stairs. "My fiancé will accompany me to the party. It is friends and

up the stairs, I see Aden out of the corner

Apparently, he approves.

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car the whole way. "I can't believe you agreed to

I nudge him with my elbow. "You don't even know what this is about. And it's

I laugh, smoothing out the wrinkles in my blue-and-white striped skirt,

Aden has

outfit just magically appeared in my room after my shower, complete with

gone, Aden has no plausible deniability anymore.

he has

says, looking at me from the corner of his

I say, and feel Lena

tell that Aden approved, too, when I had come downstairs ready to go. He hadn't said anything, but the look in

had liked

sending us with two

us.

hips. "Is there any reason to think it will be like last time?"

down at me

was responsible for that won't pull

but Aden had put a hand on my

glaring at our

had nodded their confirmation and then we had

we're forty-five minutes outside of the city, heading away from the stables and towards the beach. I

a lobster. Most wolves stick to the woods and the mountains, where they can lurk and hide and make their dens. But not me. There's just something about the beach

also, to my

Hudson puts a hand on my arm when

out of the front seat and the car behind us, sweeping the area in order to

nod from them, Hudson and I climb out and I look around, studying the

had expected, really, to be taken to a beach house.

we're at a private beach far away from any buildings. The shores are rocky, and

and the sea, and

Some I recognize as family members whom I had met at the party. Others, though, are completely foreign to

wolves, but

particular catches my

my age, or just a little older

has tanned skin and bleach-blonde hair, but what is eye-catching about him is that he's covered

black and

and I can tell-even from a distance that each tattoo was

considered and finely done.

stare at him, he