Fall For My Ex’s Mafia Father

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“Oh my god,” I mutter, my mouth full of crab cake, my eyes almost rolling
back into my head with how delicious it is.
“This is...seriously, how do they get such good seafood up in the
mountains? This tastes like it was
caught this morning!”
“1 think it was,” Ivan replies, equally intent on a lobster tail. “I think they've
got a guy whose whole job is to drive up from the shore in the mornings
with the freshest catch. Then he goes back at night.”
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“A lot of lonely hours on the road,” I murmur, nodding seriously, “but he’s
doing God's work.”
I take a final bite and then, groaning, lean on the backrest of the queen—
sized lounge positioned on my father’s third—floor deck, looking out over
the scenery. We're eating al fresco tonight and the view is...amazing. Just
treetops and mountain peaks as far as the
eye can see.
As much as I resent my father
my cheek still carries the phantom sting of his slap - I have
to admit...his taste in vacation
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property is flawless.
Ivan leans back next to me on the lounge, our shoulders brushing. He
holds out a beer to me, fresh from the cooler at his side. Smiling, I take it,
twisting off the top and taking a swig.
“So,” I say, leaning into Ivan and giving him a little nudge with my shoulder.
“What do we do now?”
Ivan pauses and then turns his head slowly to me, his eyebrow suggestively
raised, and I swat at him, cackling with laughter.
“Seriously a couple of crab cakes
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and you think you're going to get me in bed!?”
“Crab cakes!” he insists, laughing with me, “and a multi-million- dollar property!”
“Which is more mine than yours!”
“Details,” Ivan mutters, flicking a hand to dismiss my point as he brings his beer
bottle to his lips, “semantics. Not important.”
“It is pretty here, though,” I sigh, my laughter fading to a happy hum in my chest.
“Thank you for
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bringing me.”
We sit there for a long time, chatting about nothing, as the sun fades over the
horizon and stars
take the sky. I smile when I see a few early fireflies flitting their way through the
treetops, the swoop of bats and owls as they start their nighttime prowl. I shiver,
a little, as the evening grows colder, and Ivan wraps a warm arm around
1. me.
I lean into him and then feel a
twist of discomfort in my stomach when I remember...well, that
someone else was keening me
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warm with their body heat just a couple of hours ago.
God, I wonder suddenly, am I a slut?
My mind starts to race, my body going tense as I consider the fact that I'm letting
Ivan hold me on the deck of my father’s house when only a few hours ago, his
enemy — my boss, and maybe... my boyfriend?
was...
God. Maybe I am a slut.
Is it a bad thing to be a slut? I
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wonder frantically. Should I be sitting here, slut-shaming myself,
or should I like Janeen says — just give in to the impulses of my body and not
bother with puritanical questions of shame —
“Are you all right, Fay?" Ivan asks gently.
1 blink back to myself and realize that I'm panicked a little bit — breathing harder
than I should be when I'm just relaxing on a deck drinking a beer. My body is
tense against Ivan’s. No wonder he noticed how could he not?
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I tense again — can he know, like Jerome did? Can he tell that this
morning —
“This world is getting to you a little bit, isn’t it?” Ivan speculates softly. “It's
not an easy place.”
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My breath leaves me in one big relieved exhale. “Yes,” I say, relieved that
Ivan is not as
perceptive as Jerome. “Yeah it’s... it's been a lot, lately.” I work to give him
a smile and fail a bit. Ivan raises a hand to my face, his fingertips cool and
a little damp from the condensation of his beer.
“Well then,” he says, smirking at me. “Forget about it. For a little bit. For
just one night.”
“Forget about it?” I echo, disbelieving. “Fat chance there
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“Seriously, though,” Ivan says, grinning at me. “We'll just forget about our
lives for a couple of hours. Be two totally different people. Leave it all
behind. Hi, my name is Rodrigo,” he says, his smile growing as he holds
out his hand to shake mine. “Pleasure to
meet you.”
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