Fall For My Ex's Mafia Father novel Chapter 58

They stand like that for a moment, his hands on her waist, she leaning back against him – just an instant, really, before she pushes away and loops her horse’s reins over his head, using them as a lead.

Fay smiles innocently at Kent, silently thanking him for the lift, and the two head back towards the stables.

“Last night,” Kent says quietly after a moment, his hands again in his pockets. “Before…everything…”

Fay looks up at him, a little wary. Clearly, she doesn’t want to talk about it. Still, he presses on. “Did you enjoy it? Meeting your family?”

“Oh,” she says, surprised. Then she laughs a little. “Honestly, I kind of forgot about that part of the night. Well, yeah,” she says, looking forward again. “It’s surprising, really. I never knew I had such a big family.”

Kent nods as they enter the barn. “It’s pretty standard for us,” he says. “We, in this world, we tend to come from large families. I don’t know what a family gathering looks like with less than eighty people.”

“Wow,” she says. “So do you have lots of siblings?”

“No,” he says, shaking his head. “I’m a rare lonely child – my mother could only have me.” When she frowns up at him, he adds, delicately, “complications at my birth.”

“Oh,” she says, frowning as she leads Heathcliff into his stall. Kent follows her. “I’m sorry to hear that,” Fay adds softly.

“It’s all right,” he says shrugging. “My parents were each one of six. I grew up with lots of cousins who felt like siblings.”

Fay laughs at that. “Yes, apparently, I have lots of those too. I met a few last night – second cousins, even.”

“Yes,” Kent says, leaning against the post by the stall door and watching her. “You’ll have so many of those that you’ll lose track of them. Until they need something,” he adds, a little ruefully.

“Oh!” Fay says, remembering something as she loosens Heathcliff’s girth and slides the saddle from his back.