Fall For My Ex's Mafia Father novel Chapter 357

Kent sharply nods, and the judge bangs her gavel. And then it’s done.

Kent turns away from the judge but before he can turn to Daniel, Ivan catches his eye from across the room, giving him a smirk and a nod that clearly says “I’ll be seeing you soon.”

But Kent gives him nothing, and turns to his son.

Daniel’s there, and Kent quickly reaches for him, despite the rail between them. His wrists are still pinned together, but Daniel wraps him in a tight, fast hug. Kent knows that they don’t have much time before the guards pull him away, take him back to prison for the month of interrogations, but he’s going to take what he can get.

“How are you,” Kent growls, resting his head against his son’s for a moment. “Are you all right?”

“I’m good, we’re good,” Daniel says, pulling back a little bit and giving his dad a real smile. “I promise. Fay is…she’s getting fat.”

Kent laughs suddenly, surprising even himself. “No, she’s not.”

“No,” Daniel says, grinning at him, and Kent can’t help the surge of love that fills him to see his son looking so happy, even on such a tough day. “You’re right, dad – she’s not fat. She’s just got this little belly now. I – um, I wish you could see her.” His eyes flick around, aware that there might be listening ears.

Kent just nods, understanding. Daniel has to play the role of a husband telling his father about his wife’s pregnancy. Not updating an imprisoned man on the woman he loves.

“She’s healthy?” Kent asks. He knows it’s dangerous to ask, but he has to know. “The baby too?”

“Yeah,” Daniel says, smiling and running a hand through his hair. “The doctor says they’re doing great – the baby, he’s making her really nauseous –“

“He?” Kent asks, his breath catching, his eyebrows raising almost to his hairline.

But Daniel’s face suddenly falls. “Oh, god, no, dad –“

Kent frowns, not understanding.

Daniel glances at Jerome, who grimaces, and then looks back at his father. “I’m sorry – it’s kind of like, an inside joke. We don’t know the sex of the baby yet – not at all. But we have this bet going, where Janeen and Jerome think it’s a girl, and Fay’s dad and I think it’s a boy, and so we call the baby he and she – it…it doesn’t sound very funny, does it? But it’s –“

“It’s all right,” Kent says, smiling truly now as he nods to his son. Honestly, it’s the best news Daniel could have given him – that he and Fay are living in a house with so much joy in it right now, despite everything, that they have jokes about the baby. That they laugh, and tease each other, and that the baby is safe and warm.

It’s all he could have wanted. Daniel, without even knowing it, has given him a gift he couldn’t have thought to ask for.

But still. There’s more he needs to know.