Filed to story: Falling for My Ex's Mafia Dad Novel Free PDF (Fay Alden & Kent Lippert)
Soon, there’s a knock at the door. “Off you go, my dear,” the woman says, giving me a little push in the right direction.
I nod my thanks to her I didn’t even get her name as a guard comes to take me downstairs.
When we reaching the landing a floor below, he quietly opens the double doors of a sitting room.
I am the last to arrive.
“Fay,” Janeen gasps, and my head snaps directly to her. She’s seated on a plush couch, her clothing torn and her face smeared with makeup.
I take a few steps towards her but Kent, standing by the fireplace, clears his throat. I hold myself back, knowing I have a part to play.
I look between Janeen and my dad, seated next to her.
“Fay,” my dad gasps, taking in my gorgeous dress, my polished countenance. “Are you…”
“I’m fine.” I say, setting my shoulders back.
“Please,” my father says, turning his attention to Kent. “Let them go take me I’ll take whatever punishment ”
“No,” Kent cuts in, not even looking at him, just staring at me. “You’re worthless to me.”
“David,” I say, internally cringing to use his real name. “I can’t forgive you for your betrayal.”
His mouth falls open.
Janeen, next to him, is baffled. “Fay, what are you talking about?”
I turn my attention to her. “Didn’t you hear? Dad’s been keeping me away from my real life. I’m the daughter of a mob boss, someone who can give me everything I deserve. While we’ve been scraping by, I could have had yachts, private planes, diamonds. Everything a girl wants.”
Everything in me shouts no! against this, but Kent’s gaze sits heavy on my shoulders. This, I know, is the only way. I can only hope my lies convince them.
Janeen’s mouth falls open in shock and disgust.
“Please, Fay,” my dad says, devastated. “We can call the police! Fay – don’t give in.”
My heart breaks, but I have to do this.
I paint a sneer on my face. “I just want to go back to my real family. What’s it going to take to leave me alone? Fifty grand? A hundred? Whatever you want, I’m sure it can be arranged.”
I suddenly realize that Daniel made me a similar offer only a few days ago. I know exactly the disgust that my dad and Janeen must feel.
Janeen shakes her head at me. “Fay, this isn’t you.”
I turn on her and say the cruelest thing I can think of. “Why would I want to come live in that shack with you, a stripper and a deadbeat,” I hiss. “When I could have all this?” I raise my arms to indicate everything that Kent’s house represents.
Then, the nail in the coffin, I slowly cross the room and stand next to Kent. “By the way, have you met my father-in-law?”
My family’s faces go pale.
“He’s Daniel’s father. Did I forget to mention that Daniel and I are engaged?”
Kent, emotionless, puts an arm around my shoulders, claiming me as part of his family now. “We’re finished here,” he says.
My dad and my sister stand up. Hesitant, my dad takes a few steps towards me. No one stops him, so he takes my face in his hands and then pulls me close in a hug that brings tears to my eyes.
“You’re my daughter,” he whispers in my ear. “Nothing will ever change that.”
He gives me one last look and heads for the door.
Janeen comes forward next. I raise my arms for a hug but she snaps her hand up, slapping me across the face as hard as she can. I gasp.
“How dare you,” she growls. “That slap is not enough. But it’s the last thing I’ll ever give you.”
Then, pride written in the straight line of her back, she follows my father out.
As soon as the door closes behind them, I collapse at Kent’s feet, sobs wracking my body.
He stands patiently by me for a moment and then moves to the door.
“You did the right thing, Fay,” he says, before walking out.
But, alone in the room, I know I’ve lost everything that has ever mattered to me.
When Kent walks into his office, he’s surprised to see Daniel standing there, staring out the window, watching a car pull away.
“Who is in that car?” Daniel asks.
Kent crosses to his desk and sits down in his chair, folding his hands. He takes a moment to study his son. Daniel is tall, handsome, clever; but he doesn’t yet have the grit that he needs to lead this family.
“If you already know,” Kent says softly. “Why don’t you just tell me what you’re thinking?”
“Fine,” Daniel says, and Kent is happy to hear some anger in his voice. Daniel turns to look Kent in the eye. “That’s my girlfriend’s family, riding away in that car. What did you do to them?”
“I did nothing to them,” Kent says, “except a favor to Fay Thompson, this girlfriend you never told me about. Tell me, how long have you been seeing her?”
“Cut the crap, dad,” Daniel says, angrily crossing to confront him. Kent smiles, pleased to see a little fire in this studious boy. “You know I’ve only been seeing her for a few months you know ”
“I know,” Kent interrupts, “that she is not who you thought she was. And I know that you’ve already heard all about this from your gossip of a bodyguard. So why don’t you ask me your real question,” Kent says, looking at his son coldly.
Daniel grits his teeth and puts his hands in his pockets, in so many ways the very picture of his father. “Do I really have to marry her?”
“You have been engaged to Fay Alden since your childhood,” Kent says quietly. “It would be an advantageous match. She’s got the connections, the family, the money you’d need to keep this family afloat. The question is…do you want her?”
Daniel looks away from him, embarrassed. “She’s fine. She’s very nice. And funny.”
“What,” Kent says, his voice deliberately mocking. “Is that all? She doesn’t do it for you, Daniel? Doesn’t raise your…heartrate?”
Daniel blushes and scowls. “No, it’s nothing like that it’s just ”
“It’s just what, Daniel,” his father says, banging his hand on the desk, trying to shock the truth out of him. “You’ve got other girls on the line?”