Fall For My Ex's Mafia Father novel Chapter 248

“What?” I ask innocently, trying to hide my smile.

“Fay,” Jerome growls, quickly pulling into a spot as far away from Ivan’s car as possible. “What the hell are you playing at this time?”

“Kent knows,” I say evenly with a little shrug, speaking the truth.

I told him this morning. He hadn’t been happy about it.

I had picked my moment quite carefully. “Um, Kent?” I had said, leaning casually against the open door to the closet as Kent got dressed. And then, when he had turned and looked at me suspiciously – probably because I haven’t been so shy and hesitant around him in weeks – I had stumbled out with my whole plan to meet Ivan at the stables today, just to check on things between his organization and the Lippert family.

Kent walked slowly over to me, stopping only when he was so close that I had to tilt my chin all the way back to look up into his face. Then, he had gone completely still.

“What are you doing, Fay,” Kent had growled. “What happened last night?”

“Nothing,” I said, willing honestly into my face as I looked up at him. “Ivan and I didn’t have a chance to talk – I promise, it’s not – it’s not a romantic thing. Daniel and I were cornered all night by the Russians.”

And then I waited. If he told me not to go, I wouldn’t go.

But secretly? I kind of knew he’d say yes. I had told Kent weeks ago about what happened at my father’s house – about my father offering to take Jerome from him, about my father laughing when I suggested that Kent could keep me safe. And I could tell that the news had rattled him.

Kent had used the information, of course – had used my father’s confidence to rattle Natalia, to suggest to her that Alden had something up his sleeve and that they needed to figure it out before breaking off the engagement with me. It had been clever, that method of gaining more time.

But my father and Ivan have been slippery these past few weeks – haven’t given Kent much of anything, instead dancing around him and Natalia. They would take meetings, but they didn’t commit to anything.