Forbidden Temptation My Mafia Fiance's Alpha Father

Chapter 95

Chapter 95

Brooklyn

When I turn and find Aden standing in the doorway to my bedroom, I nearly jump out of my skin.

"Oh!" I say.

"Going somewhere?" he asks.

I nod. I'm standing in my bedroom mirror, holding two dresses.

"Out, actually. Hudson just came by and asked me if I want to go to dinner."

Aden smiles at me, just raising the little corner of his mouth.

"You should go with the black dress, then," he says, nodding towards a little minidress still hanging in my closet. "That's better for a city dinner."

I consider the dress, which is really just a scrap of fabric.

"You don't think it's too..." I say, hesitating and looking up at him, a little embarrassed. "Well, slutty?"

Aden laughs a little at this, leaning against my doorframe.

"The whole point of going to a chic restaurant in the city is to wear a dress like that and make your boyfriend jealous when all the other men stare at you. That's why a dress like that exists."

I look back at the dress, surprised and a little excited. I had never thought about it that way.

I sneak a glance at Aden, still leaning there in my doorway, wondering what he'd think if he saw me on Hudson's arm, in this dress, the hem riding a little too high on my thigh.

Then, I take it off the hanger and lay it out on the bed, the question decided.

I start to move over to my vanity but stop dead in my tracks at his next question.

"Do you want to marry Hudson?" Aden asks, blunt.

I just stand there, blinking at him, totally confused.

"What?"

issue. "Do you want to marry

was all of this coming

plan my next words. "I didn't realize that I had a choice," I say, keeping

you to say yes at the

I realize that this isn't a real question about what I want. This is

folding my arms

want to go to my father's house," I say, evading the question of marriage. "I want to stay here." Because that, I think, is what this

actually marry

drifting down over my body, "of

comes shallow, and I try to stand perfectly still as he looks

I ask, my voice

to some tricky territory with this question, with that look in

dragging his eyes up

it a moment later, he turns away

but step to the edge of the banister to watch him as he heads back

his

fists, his knuckles white. The only thing belying the tension behind that strange question he just

I would

want

Were any of them anything I could

ready?" Hudson

his room in

looking so much

yenet

that I just

blinks at

is absolutely no heat between

But me and Aden...

start a forest fire if we

I supposed to do with

***

next morning I get up very early, stretching my arms over my head as I consider my plans for the day. The stables, for sure, but...well, I hope that if I can catch Aden early, maybe he'll let me go visit my sister and my dad

seen my dad in so long, and my visit with Jolie just

out of bed swiftly, eager

and Aden had been right. The dress he suggested

Hudson

experience just solidified for me just how much of our marriage will be a cozy friendship instead