Fall For My Ex’s Mafia Father

Chapter 7 – True Identity–1

I’m in a daze, half in consciousness, half out of it –

I hear a moan – did that come?

I open my eyes, frowning. Where’s the car? I close my eyes against the warm yellow light of the room. I want to wake up, but I feel sleep pressing me back down –

A prick at my finger – I jump at it, pushing away the hands that hold my arm

“It’s all right,” a woman’s soft voice says. “All done now…”

Then, a man’s voice – I swim out of the darkness, propelled by fear. I know that voice.

“…to the lab, I want fast processing. I want it compared to the bloodline…”

I shake my head, groaning. I blink, looking around the finely–furnished room. I don’t know this place.

I push myself up until I’m seated with my feel curled beneath me on a chaise lounge. I notice that I’m still wearing my club outfit, but someone has buttoned a man’s white shirt over top of it. As I put my weight on my hands, I feel pain in my finger. I look down to see a Band–Aid on it. What –

Suddenly, a hazy memory comes back to me – a woman taking my blood, Lippert telling them to take it to some lab –

Panic seizes me – I must be somewhere on Lippert’s property. I grip the fabric of the couch, looking around for some kind of escape. There are windows, but they look out on tree tops – we’re certainly on the second floor or above-

Horrible images flood my mind – what the hell does Lippert want with my blood? Is he selling it? Does he want the sample so that he can let his cronies on the black market know my blood type so they can better bid on my organs!?

My hands anxiously fly to my hair, tangling in it. I stare at the door. Maybe if I just run

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The door swings open and I hold my breath.

Kent Lippert stands in the doorway, studying me as I stare at him. I know what he sees a feral, frightened creature, ready to spring.

But he doesn’t laugh at me, or scare me any further. After a long moment, he just closes the door behind him and walks forward.

My breath comes faster as he approaches, as he reaches in his pocket, brings forward – oh my god – a knife –

I flinch back away from it and he sighs, continuing to hold out his hand.

“It’s your knife, Fay. I’m just returning your property.”

I go still, glancing between his face and the knife in his hand. My mother’s knife. I leap forward to snatch it out of his palm, but he yanks it away, putting out his other hand to halt my movement. His hand lands squarely on my chest and he gives a tiny shove

voice all authority. “I’ll give it back. I just want

at him, totally

forward to loom over me, his voice merely a whisper. “I’ll flush

again.”

nod, my eyes on my mother’s knife, desperate to get it back.

get that knife, Fay Thompson?” he asks, straightening up and putting the hand with the knife

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Gifts

– True

stray strand of my hair around my index finger. Why does he keep

did she

dad told me to carry it always, to remember her, and for protection.”

curious. “And who, precisely,

Why does he care who my father is, but not my

delay me by holding back his name, but with every

in horror

a smug cat that

not knowing what else to do. “Please,” I say, begging now. “Please don’t hurt them. They’re good people – they’re not

nods again and takes his hand out of his pocket, offering the blade to me. I snatch it out

the room.

play my trump card. “Please!” I shout after him. “Please don’t hurt them!

moment. Then, slowly, he turns. “Daniel?” he asks, his

vigorously. “Daniel, your son? He’s…” I bite my lip, suddenly

head. “My son Daniel is your boyfriend,” he says, repeating my words and looking up at the ceiling

not my boyfriend

that…serendipitous,” he says.

room, back towards me. When he gets to the lounge he grabs me by the elbow, pulling me to my feet, shaking me so

His

lost in confusion – I

am

–

you ever asked any questions about your mother? Your biological father?” He shakes my

confusion. How did

tremble traitorously and I pull it into my mouth, desperate not to show weakness. Kent’s

he lets

who owned that knife was Victoria O’Leary, the mistress of Lorenzo

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