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    Fall For My Ex’s Mafia Father


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    Slowly, the guard shakes his head. | turn my attention back to Ivan, but his eyes are on the guard.Content bel0ngs to N?vel(D)r/a/ma.Org.


    “Can you give us a minute?” Ivan says to Kent’s man, using a tone that reminds me that Ivan, too, is the head of a criminal


    organization. The guard hesitates but Ivan twists his head a little, his mouth tightening, letting the guard know that it wasn’t really


    a question. Sighing, the guard goes back inside, closing the door behind him.


    “Can | tell you something Fay? Before you go?” Ivan asks quietly, his voice more serious than I’m used to, and definitely too


    serious for dawn. “Just between us?”


    | cock my head to the side, some instinct in me prodding me to pay attention, so | sit up and look him in the face. This is...


    different, than the carefree Ivan | know, who always acts like he can handle anything. Instead, now, there’s real worry in his


    eyes.


    “Okay,” | breathe. “Sure.”


    “You need to be careful, Fay,”


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    Ivan urges, his voice tentative. “I wanted to tell you thisst night — but we got distracted. And now time is short, so I’m sorry that


    this is abrupt, but...things are changing in the criminal sphere. Something big ising — | don’t want you to get caught up in it.


    But you''re very close to some of the big yers in this war. I''m worried that you could get swept away in it.”


    | feel myself go pale as | listen to him, fascinated. | knew that there was...discord between the families, but | never thought...


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    “Are you one of these yers, lvan?” | hear myself ask, my voice steadier than | thought it would be as my mind races to think of


    Kent


    of Daniel —


    m,” Ivan says quietly, nodding slowly and raising a hand to cup my cheek. “I can protect you, if you...if you''ll let me.”


    Slowly, | reach out and take his other hand, needing to know more. “Are you suggesting that... maybe Kent can’t?”


    “Fay,” lvan whispers, leaning


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    closer to me. “I can’t — | don’t


    want to say anything that will make it worse, or get you into hot water at home. But...” he looks at me seriously, his eyes locked


    on mine. And then he swallows, like he’s made a hard decision, and speaks all in a rush.


    “Kent''s going down, Fay,” Ivan insists, moving his hand from my cheek to behind my neck, wrapping his fingers softly in the hair


    at the nape. “He’s on the wrong side of — of everything. You have to get out of that house while you can. If youe with me, |


    can protect you.”


    | move away from Ivan suddenly, shocked — scared — ncing over my shoulder towards the door, my heart starting to race.


    “No,” lvan says, urgent, his hand slipping from my neck to my shoulder, pulling me back.


    “Not right now


    there’s time


    everything''s fine, | didn’t take you out of therest night to like, make a move while you were gone.” Ivan shakes his head and |


    watch him


    closely.


    “Just think about it,” he concludes softly, his eye wide. And deep down, everything in me tells me