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?"

pushing the issue. "Do you want

was all of this

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

force you to say yes at the altar,"

I realize that this isn't a real question about what I

folding my

say, evading the question of marriage. "I want to stay here." Because that, I

could care less about whether or not I actually marry Hudson-our wedded life isn't what interests

ways," Aden says, his eyes drifting down over my body, "of staying in this house. Of proving your loyalty to

breath comes shallow, and I try to stand perfectly still

they?" I ask, my

territory with this question, with

your imagination," Aden says, dragging

if he can't stand it a moment later, he turns away from

to the edge of the banister to

his hands

his knuckles white. The only thing belying the tension behind

frankly, I

want to marry

were the alternatives? Were any of them

ready?"

his room

so much

yenet

I just stare at

at

is absolutely no heat

But me and Aden...

forest fire if we

was I supposed to do with

***

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

my dad in so long, and my

climb out of bed swiftly, eager to

nice, and Aden had been

Hudson really

for me just how much of our