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.”

goes to wrap it around my

touch it. “Is it…like real? Were those alive?”

she scolds, “some kind

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at it. “I feel so bad, thinking about those little animals –“

minks died over sixty years ago. No new minks died

hesitate, my eyes taking it in. It is so beautiful.

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

another sixty years. Take them out! Let the world

brushing my face against the wrap, enjoying the feel of the

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

together. I’m abruptly very aware of the shortness of my skirt. I don’t

–

swear I hear him growl as his brow lowers, his eyes locked on

stairs. “Wow, you look stunning.” He gives me a big smile and I

on his shoulder. “You look

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Gifts

28 – Meeting

fiancé is. Both of our faces turn to Kent, though, as he snorts at us, shaking his

on,” he says, nodding towards the door. “The cars

house. On our way to meet my

walk into the ballroom at the country club, impressed. This place has a grand, old–fashioned kind of charm, with freshly buffed fine oak floors, brass chandeliers, and sweeping views of the golf greens all along the southern

contact with him, merely saying “whiskey, neat,” and surveying the guests. However, Daniel ist more polite, nodding and smiling as he takes two glasses from the

only get a few steps into the room before

and reaching out a hand to take

him down.

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Meeting the

“I think I’d like to…visit the bathroom,” I say, “before I

turning with me, putting a hand on my

take her,” he says, shaking his head. “You’ve

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