Fall For My Ex's Mafia Father novel Chapter 124

The next morning, I reach over and grab my cell phone off of the nightstand the moment I wake up, dying to see if Ivan texted me back. It’s not my burner phone, or my old cell phone which Kent took, but instead my Kent-approved cellphone, which I’m sure he monitors. But whatever – let him look. This is all part of his big plan, anyway.

I bite my lip, trying not to smile when I see that I have a message waiting. Eagerly, I click on it.

Ivan: So, has he finally let you out of your cage, Fay? Of course I want to see you. Pick you up at 8.

My smile drops a little as I read this and I sit back on my pillows, wondering why I feel…well, a little disappointed. I stare at Ivan’s text, reading it two and then three more times, sorting through my emotions.

And I realize that I’m disappointed because there’s a third person in this text, quite present if unnamed. Kent. It’s not just me and Ivan’s secret liaison anymore.

I drop my phone into my lap as I lean against my pillows to think. I mean, it’s never really been just me and Ivan, not ever – Kent and my dad were always involved, and Daniel too. But that afternoon at the bar, during that gap in space and time with only the two of us in it, it was…well, it was really nice.

And, quite frankly, I don’t like the idea that this is suddenly a triangle. Kent and Ivan, with me in the middle.

I sigh as I realize, quite suddenly, that I’m being kind of a brat. I’m trying to have my cake and eat it too – to have both Ivan and Kent in my life, but to keep them in completely separate spaces when the reality is that I’m the pawn in their games, not the other way around.

Well.

At least for now.

I smirk to myself just a little and remind myself that I have Janeen in my back pocket, and that she’s had loads of experience playing men against each other to get what she wants. And she told me precisely how to handle something like this. If Ivan’s going to bring Kent into it, then I’m going to double down.

Eagerly, I pick up my phone again and send off a quick reply.