Fall For My Ex's Mafia Father novel Chapter 12

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?”