Fall For My Ex’s Mafia Father

Chapter 28

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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

not wanting to touch it. “Is

you,” she scolds, “some kind

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protest, staring at it. “I feel so bad, thinking about those

“It’s vintage. These minks died over sixty years ago. No new minks died so you could

it in. It is so

say anything, tucking my hands into the

them in the closet for another sixty

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

Kent at the bottom standing with his arms crossed, his

very aware of the shortness of my skirt. I don’t break eye contact though. Instead,

–

as his brow

Daniel calls, joining his father at the bottom of the stairs. “Wow, you look stunning.” He gives me a big smile and I start to move

on his shoulder. “You look pretty cute yourself.”

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Gifts

Meeting the

again just how good–looking my fiancé is. Both of our faces turn to

nodding towards the door. “The

we head out of the house. On our way to

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

contact with him, merely saying “whiskey, neat,” and surveying the guests. However, Daniel

get a few steps into the room before we are

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

him down.

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– Meeting the Family–3

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

Kent says, turning with me, putting a hand on my back to show me

he steps in front of us. “I’ll take her,” he says, shaking his head. “You’ve been kind of hovering all night –“

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