Fall For My Ex’s Mafia Father

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I cover my mouth with my hand, my fingers brushing against Kent's bare knee pressed against my face, desperate to hush the sound of my panting breath.
A string of obscenities flics through my head as I press my eyes shut, praying frantically that Alessi didn't see me - that he doesn't peek around the side of Kent's desk and see him sitting in his desk chair with no pants on.
Next to me, Kent's leg begins to shake and tremble. And I know he has precisely the same fear.
"Not so late, Alessi," Kent sighs, and I'm shocked to hear how composed he sounds, especially as I'm almost gasping with fear down here.
"Eh, perhaps I just remember you from our youth in Italy," Alessi says fondly, "always carly to bed for Kent. But yes." A pause here, and I imagine him giving a casual shrug, "perhaps things have changed."
"What can I help you with, Alessi?" Kent says, snapping a little. I go even more still now, hoping that he doesn't piss Alessi off. He needs to get him out of here - as fast as he can not to start a fight.
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"Just coming to speak with my brother-in-law," Alessi murmurs, his voice a bit more sly than I'm used to. "Natalia is very...cager. To have things settled with you. Have you considered her offer?"
I hear movement and open my eyes, shifting my gaze to the line of light that comes in between the floor and barrier of the desk against which I am currently pressed. I see a shadow darken the line and then the creaking of a chair. I again curse inwardly. Alessi has sal down.
Which means he's staying awhile.
Shit.
Well, at least he didn't move around the desk...yet.
My eyes dart towards Kent when he speaks again, but I close my eyelids them rather than staring at the long length of his leg that presses against me. "No, Alessi," Kent sighs. "I've already told her marriage is not something I'm thinking about anytime in the near future. It's just not on the table for me."
"But Natalia
"Is a wonderful woman," Kent interrupts smoothly before pausing and, I assume, giving Alessi a dark glare. "But even if she was the most wonderful woman, it's simply...not in the
cards."
He sighs. "It would make my father very happy," he says slowly, "to renew the ties between our families."
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"Is Daniel not enough of a tic?" Kent asks, his voice sharp.
"Daniel is a wonderful boy, we love him very much," Alessi says smoothly. "But he is...not as involved in the business as wel would like. And if he continues to be unattached to the Lippert business, then it would be better for us to... renew the ties in another way."
There's a long pause. "I'm not going to marry her," Kent says, his voice quiet and blunt. "So, if we need to make a tie, then we have to do it another way."
"Well," Alessi says on a deep intake of breath. "I understand. But perhaps...we need to make some changes, then."
"Is it not enough?" Kent asks, and I can tell that he's starting to lose his temper now. "Everything else that we've done? The money flows into Italy - I know how much we've brought in for you -"
"It is not about the money," Alessi snaps. "It is about the trust."
"I have never done anything to defy your trust," Kent growls.
"You kept the Alden girl," Alessi points out. "When we told you to let her go."
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Kent just sighs now and I feel him
shift in his seat, leaning back in m
backin
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"Well, time will tell," Alessi says conversationally, and my eyes widen when I see the shadows at the edge of the desk shift and hear the creak of his chair. He's getting up. I hear the sound of his footsteps moving away and start to exhale a deep breath. The content is on Novelxo.org! Read the latest chapter there!
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"Ah, Kent," Alessi says, apparently
turning back. "The shipment that you arranged. Of the goods. It will be delivered? Shortly?" The content is on Novelxo.org! Read the latest chapter there!
Fall For My Ex's Mafia Father