Fall For My Ex's Mafia Dad novel Chapter 96

“He just…he pisses me off, Daniel,” she says softly. “And then I say things I don’t mean – and I do things I’d never do, just because I know it pisses him off –“

Daniel laughs at her here, just a little, in a comforting way.

“Yeah, he has that effect on people,” Daniel says softly. “Though, I have to admit, you’re the only one I’ve ever seen respond like that. He has most people shaking in their boots –“

“Oh, I’ve got plenty of that going on too,” Fay says, and she laughs a little as well, sniffing again. “I just…I don’t know. Something comes over me.”

There’s a pause in conversation, and then Daniel presses her. “So, what are you going to do? What’s next?”

“What do you mean?” she asks.

“Do you still want to…go? To run? Leave this life behind?”

Kent blinks, surprised. She was considering running?

Foolish girl, he thinks. There was nowhere she would go that he wouldn’t find her. And the trouble she’d cause him as he hunted her down – god damnit, he’d be livid –

But that. Kent checks himself, realizing that he’s growing angry again, that it is precisely this side of Fay that fills him with this kind of rage. When she’s unpredictable, and stupid, and follows what she wants instead of what he knows is good for her.

“I don’t know,” Fay says softly, distracting Kent from his thoughts and bringing him back to the conversation. “I don’t know…if there’s anything to run to,” she says, thoughtful.

Kent nods, agreeing.

“Not back home? Or to France, like we talked about?” Daniel asks, curious.

“I just…” she says slowly. “I don’t know if that world exists for me anymore. Or, maybe it’s that the old Fay, the person I used to be? Who fit into that world? I’m not sure she exists anymore.”

“I’m sorry,” Daniel says, and Kent can hear the guilt in his son’s words. “It’s all my fault.”

“No,” she says, quick to assuage him. “I’m not sure…honestly, Daniel, I’m not sure I dislike the person I’m becoming in this world.”

Kent is surprised by this, his eyes opening wide.

“The old me is gone,” Fay continues, “but…the new me? She’s not half bad. I just wish…that your father realized that. That I want to be here. Honestly, I said some stuff to him today about – well, about wanting to explore the relationships with the jerks my father introduced me to the other day.”

And then the sisters both scream, flying across the ground towards each other, colliding and wrapping their arms around each other, holding tight, each hardly able to believe that the other is real.

“What are you doing here,” Fay asks, unable to stop the tears streaming down her cheek.

“I can’t believe you have a horse!” Janeen says at the same moment, laughing.

Fay steps back, holding her sister at arm’s length. “Seriously,” she says, shaking her head and marveling at her sister. “How did you get here?”

“Lippert,” Janeen says with a little shrug. “He came by the club last night and asked me if I wanted to see you. We struck a little deal.”

Fay shakes her head, unbelieving. Of all of the people in the world who she thought would help her reconnect with her sister...

The last on the list would have been Kent.

What the hell had changed?