Fall For My Ex's Mafia Father novel Chapter 65

I’m slightly shaken by the experience, to be honest – first talking to my father, and then reporting the conversation to Kent. I know that I’m a pawn in their game, but I hadn’t realized that I’d be expected to report, on either side, what the other had said.

How do I manage this? I hadn’t lied to Kent – had told him everything. But was that, really, my best choice? Where did my allegiances lie?

I sigh, pushing through the kitchen door and then heading out to the back garden. I need some fresh air.

When I pass through the back door, I’m pleased to see Daniel there, buttering a scone at the little table, reading.

“Oh hey, Fay,” he says, smiling at me. “Do you want some tea?”

“Sure,” I say, sitting down and feeling better already. “Actually, tea sounds great.”

Kent waits for the door to his office to click shut before reaching towards the top drawer, which he unlocks with a key from his pocket. Then he pulls it open and removes the tape recorder that’s sitting inside, still running.

Deftly, he presses the stop button and then the rewind, waiting a few moments before pressing stop again. Then he presses play and listens, carefully, to the entire conversation between Alden and Fay.

Kent smiles a little as the conversation passes, as he realizes that Fay told him precisely what was said in precisely the same order. Not only does she have a good memory, but she didn’t leave anything out. Good. This means his trust in her can remain, at least from now.

Kent smile deepens a bit as she hesitates when Alden asks if she and Daniel have been intimate. Alden was pleased by her silence, suggesting a negation, and Kent can’t help feeling the same.

The smug happiness inside him is checked, though, by the sudden wonder of why Daniel and Fay haven’t been intimate. Of course, selfishly, because he knows he wants her, Kent doesn’t want Daniel to touch her.

But they’re young people who claim to be in love, their bedrooms basically next door to each other. If Kent had been in Daniel’s place in his early 20s, he’d be sneaking over to his girlfriend’s room every night.