Fall For My Ex’s Mafia Father

Chapter 28

Gifts

Chapter 28 – Meeting the Family–1

Fiona gives me a tart little smack on the butt then, breaking my reverie and laughing as she hurries over to the jewelry box waiting on my vanity. I give her a weird look and cover my ass with my hands. “What is with people today,” I murmur.

She laughs again as she comes over to me, standing behind me so that she can hook the diamond solitaire around my neck on its slim silver chain.

“You got the ring?” she asks, smacking her gum.

“Oh, yeah,” I murmur, walking swiftly over to my bedside drawer and pulling it open. I reach towards the back, fishing it out and pushing it swiftly onto my left hand.

When I look at Fiona, she’s crossing her arms and shaking her head at me.

“A million–dollar diamond,” she says, “and you shove it in your bedside drawer?”

“Um,” I say, biting my lip in response. I hadn’t even thought about it. I look around, wondering where else I should have put

it

“Nevermind,” she says, laughing at me more.

“Fiona,” I say, taking in her vintage Juicy velour sweatsuit. “Won’t you please come? I’ll feel so much better with you there.”

comfortable here.”

I frown at her, knowing that something’s up. But, she knows more about this world than I do. If she doesn’t want to go, I’m not going to push her.

“Okay,” I say, sighing as I headed for the door.

“Wait wait!” she calls, unzipping a garment bag and revealing a gorgeous mink stole.

“Oh my god,” I say, walking back towards it. “It’s beautiful

“Yeah,” she says, admiring it. “Vintage. You lucky girl.”

wrap it around my

not wanting to touch it. “Is it…like real?

she scolds, “some kind of

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feel so bad,

These minks died over sixty years ago. No new minks died so

my eyes taking it in. It is

me before I can say anything, tucking my hands into the little pockets at the bottom which help me keep it around my

in the closet for another sixty years. Take them out! Let the world admire them!”

face against the

stop though, halfway down, when I see Kent at the bottom standing with

up towards my ears, clutching the mink close against my chest, pressing my thighs and knees together. I’m abruptly very aware of the shortness of my skirt. I don’t break eye contact though. Instead, I bite my bottom lip hoping

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as his brow lowers, his eyes locked on mine.

at the bottom of the stairs. “Wow, you look stunning.” He gives me a

I say, giving him a little punch on his shoulder. “You

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Gifts

– Meeting the

bashful smile, and I’m reminded again just how good–looking my fiancé is. Both of our faces turn to Kent, though, as he snorts at

towards the door.

that, we head out of the house. On our way to meet my

little as we walk into the ballroom at the country club, impressed. This place has a grand, old–fashioned kind of charm, with freshly buffed fine oak

doesn’t make eye contact with him, merely saying “whiskey, neat,” and surveying the guests. However, Daniel ist more polite, nodding and smiling as he takes

few steps into the room before we are bombarded

plump woman says, hurrying over and reaching out a hand to take mine. “Is this our darling lost

him down.

Gifts

– Meeting the Family–3

hesitating a little. “I think I’d like to…visit the bathroom,” I say, “before I take that on.”

me, putting a hand on my back to show me the way.

says, his face frustrated as he steps in front of us. “I’ll take her,” he says, shaking his head. “You’ve been kind of

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