Fall For My Ex’s Mafia Father

Chapter 20

Gifts

Chapter 20 – Danger makes me

want to…-1

My heart pounding, I press the stop button on the remote as fast as I can and return my wide eyes to Kent, who is still looking at

  1. me.

Please, please, please. By all that is holy, let him not have seen me watching his sex tape.

“What are you doing in here,” he asks, angry.

“Um,” I say, terrified, hoping he doesn’t pick up on the tremor in my voice. “Fiona brought me here? Said I could look through some…” my eyes dart around the room for an answer that is not porn. “Some family photo albums? And home videos?”

He narrows his eyes at me, his eyes flicking to the pile of vintage Playboys on the floor. “She shouldn’t have brought you down here,” he says, moving aside so that I can leave the room. I quickly get to my feet, flicking the power button on the remote so that the TV goes blank.

Then, dropping the remote, I scurry out of the room, praying with all my might that Kent does not go back in to see what tape

is in the VCR.

He closes the door behind me as I head for the steps. “Go upstairs,” he says. “Don’t come down here.”

Glad to obey, I hurry out into the kitchen, heaving a sigh of

phone.

My hand slides over smooth denim. I stop dead in my tracks, panicked, and pat all over my body looking for it. Then, slowly, I turn back towards the little door. I definitely felt it in my back pocket when we left the patio…

God damnit. My phone must have fallen out in the weird porn

room.

Steeling myself, I know I have to go back. If my dad or Janeen ever called I didn’t have it – I’d just die with guilt.

little door in the kitchen, pulling it open a crack to listen. I don’t hear a sound. Tentatively, I put

VHS out

the room and, quiet as a mouse, shut the door behind me. I begin to creep back along the hallway when I

terrified that I’ve been

one comes out

the sound again to my left, a kind of snap, and then a muffled groan. Unable to stop myself,

– Danger makes

want to…-2

also see that the

mistake. I know I shouldn’t.

stare at the door, consumed

take two steps closer, reaching out a hand to grip the metal handle and then, my inner voice still screaming at me to

is suddenly louder without the thick door to keep it in.

mouths. They’re moaning, one sobbing, as they look at something just out of

My eyes take in the strong muscles of his back, the rage that I can see pulsing through him just by the way

the buckle

shake their heads no, but this is apparently not the answer that Kent wants. He drops the belt, moving to the man on the

the sharp edge of the knife to the man’s pinky finger. The scream

feel myself trembling, I can’t move, can’t stop watching. The man not

and then –

god

me. He sees me peeking through the door, fixates on me. He begins to scream in my direction

shift to the other man

then

open the kitchen door and then use the banister to propel myself up the main stairs

god, I think, he’s a monster, he’s a

like it has hit home inside of me, after seeing that scene in the

my

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Gifts

20 – Danger makes

holds me fast. He grabs me by the hair at the back of my neck, forcing my head back, my face turned up towards his. I pant, in his arms,

remembering my rationale for being there. “I forgot my phone!”

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