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?"

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

up the stairs, I see Aden out of the corner of

Apparently, he approves.

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whole way. "I can't believe you agreed to this for me,"

my elbow. "You don't even know what this is about. And it's at the

out the wrinkles in

Aden has paired with a little

this adorable outfit just magically appeared in my room

that Jayde is gone, Aden has no plausible deniability anymore. We both know

has immaculate

look pretty," Hudson says, looking at me

I say, and

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

liked that,

Aden was sending us with two guards each

us.

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

down

he had said. "Whoever was responsible for that

a hand

said, glaring at our guards. "My guys will make

confirmation and then we had

the city, heading away from the stables and towards the beach. I can already

have, despite my lily-white skin and my tendency to burn as red as 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

apparently, also, to

up to the indicated spot, and Hudson puts a hand on my arm when I eagerly reach for

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

and I climb out and I look

to be taken to a beach house.

private beach far away from any buildings. The shores are rocky, and there's

us and the sea, and it's

members whom

but some humans,

man in particular

age, or just a

eye-catching about him is

all black

sporty attire, and I can tell-even from a distance that each

considered and finely done.

stare at him, he