Fall For My Ex's Mafia Dad novel Chapter 300

Jerome makes a horrible noise, half cry and half groan, as he falls to the floor.

Daniel shouts and I hear a scream – I realize passively that the scream comes from me - before Kent reaches down and grabs Jerome by the shirt, lifting him again so that he can punch him another time, his fist flashing across his jaw –

But Daniel’s on him now, grabbing his father by his arms and ripping him away from Jerome, who moans on the floor, his face turned down towards the cold marble.

My hands are pressed to my mouth in horror as I see blood all over Jerome’s face, all over the floor –

Daniel stumbles backwards with Kent’s arms wrapped in his own, pulling Kent away. “Get off of him!” Daniel cries, his eyes looking frantically towards his boyfriend.

Kent lets out another feral roar, pulling hard at Daniel, trying to get back at Jerome – to, to kill him, I realize –

“Stop!” I scream, putting my whole heart into the word, into the noise that rips from my lips. “It’s not him! It’s not Jerome!”

Kent and Daniel go still, turning towards me, and suddenly the only sound in the room is Jerome’s injured moans.

I keep my eyes fastened on Kent’s, willing him to look at me, to pay attention to me, to let his rage fall away…

And something about it works. Kent and Daniel stay still for a moment before Kent shakes himself, hard, and growls at Daniel to let him go. Daniel hesitates but does as his dad says. When Kent doesn’t move for Jerome again, Daniel falls to his knees at Jerome’s side and urges him to turn over, to let him look.

But I don’t have time for it. Instead, I stare at Kent as he collects himself, as he leashes the animal within him and straightens his shoulders before walking over to me. As he comes close he puts his hands in his pockets again, though I can see them tightened into fists, as if he has to put them away to avoid grabbing me again.

My lower lip shakes a little as Kent stares down at me, but I raise my chin once more, reminding myself again and again that I didn’t do anything wrong.

I feel myself collapse a little in his absence, catching myself against the sink on my palms as my knees go weak. And then, thinking what’s the point, I just let myself slip to the floor, still staring into the bedroom and at my door, which is standing wide open.

“Where –“ I hear Daniel ask, and I turn to him, my mouth open with shock. “Where did he go?”

“I have no idea,” I murmur, shaking my head a little.

Daniel heaves a big sigh and then helps Jerome sit up. Jerome, I’m glad to see, is conscious, if not in a great deal of pain. And, deciding that Jerome needs him now more than I do – which is probably true – Daniel turns his attention to him, feeling at Jerome’s face for a broken nose or jaw, trying to assess the damage.

I do nothing. I just sit in silence, watching, my brain…empty.