Fall For My Ex's Mafia Father novel Chapter 326

Which, really, is all Janeen wants for her little sister right now.

Fay sighs and looks askance at the three beers sitting mostly-empty on the table. “I’d kill for one of those right now,” she murmurs, rubbing a hand absently across her belly.

Smirking, Jerome pushes his beer bottle towards her, and she glares at him. “What?” he says, grinning. “It’s not like you didn’t pickle the baby in tequila for the first month of your pregnancy.”

With a little growl, Fay leans forward and smacks him on the arm, glaring. “I didn’t know, Jerome!”

“Eh, a little more won’t hurt,” he replies, laughing and nudging the bottle closer, but Fay just closes her eyes and tilts her head back, resting it against the cushion on the back of her chair, relaxing and catching up on her thoughts.

They all sit quietly for a long moment, doing the same as Fay and sorting through their thoughts, their priorities, their suddenly-changed lives. Because as much as they all know they’re dedicated to the same cause, they’re also aware that they have very different roles within it.

After a long moment of staring out at the dark night settling over the sea, searching for the place where the sky meets the waves, Daniel turns his attention back to Fay.

“So, Donna Lippert,” he says with a sigh. “What’s next?”

Fay sits silently for a moment longer before lifting her head back up and opening her eyes, looking straight at him. “Well,” she says slowly, and then she sighs. “I think it’s time you called your uncle,”

Daniel blinks rapidly in surprise while Jerome’s eyes go wide. “What?”

“And Natalia too,” she says, sighing again, harder this time, “much as I am loathe to bring her back.”

“That fucking vocab again,” Janeen mutters, shaking her head. Fay ignores her.

“Wha – why on earth do you want them back?” Daniel asks, shocked. “Plus, I don’t even know if they will – dad’s been all tied up in the justice system now, they will not want to get their hands dirty trying to get him out.”

“I don’t want them to try to help your dad,” Fay says, frowning at him. She waves a dismissive hand. “That’s – I mean, don’t we think that’s a lost cause? Isn’t that what the lawyers say – that Kent’s probably going away for life, with all they’ve got him on now?”

Daniel nods slowly. “Yeah,” he says, his eyebrows going up. “So…why are you looking to get Natalia and Alessi back?”