Chapter 138

“Oh my god, Daniel,” I spit, blushing beet red and leaning forward across the table. “Are you serious? Before coffee?”

He leans back in his chair and glares at me. “What, do you think coffee is going to make this any better?”

“Yah,” I say, snatching his own tiny espresso cup from its place in front of him and quickly draining it. Screw him, I need this way more than he does.

Daniel’s mouth falls open a little when he sees what I’ve done. “Fay!” he complains, “that’s mine!”

I slam the cup back onto the table and glare at him in return. “Oops,” I say, cocking my head to the side and crossing my arms over my chest as I lean back.

“You’re being such a brat, Fay,” Daniel hisses, leaning over the table. “I can’t believe you’re acting like this, after what you did to me –“

“What I did to you, Daniel?!” I exclaim, huffing in disbelief. “You’re the one making crude accusations before I’ve barely had a chance to sit down –

and what business is it of yours anyway!”

“You’re my fiancé! Of course it’s my business!” He retorts, his voice growing louder as he gets angrier.

“Am I?” I ask, sarcastic, unfolding my arms and putting my hands flat on the table so that I can better accuse him in return. “As far as I know, you never asked me to marry you. Your dad told us we were engaged. And so, when it comes to dissolving the engagement, it seems like that was his prerogative. And besides, where were you these past few days? If we were so engaged, and so close, and so dedicated to each other, why weren’t you around, begging me to come back? You were probably out somewhere, paying attention to your actual boyf-“

“Watch it,” Daniel growls, silencing me and looking around anxiously to make sure nobody heard.

I sit back in my chair, feeling cowed and guilty. Because, of course, I don’t want to ruin his life just because he’s being a jerk to me. “I’m sorry,” I say, a little bitter. “I didn’t mean that. That last part. But everything else I did mean!”

“Fay,” Daniel grumbles, waving a hand to dismiss it all. “I saw you come down from the third floor – I saw what you were wearing, and I know what he keeps up there.”

“Do you?” I ask, my eyes going wide.

“Fay,” Daniel pleads, exasperated, “can you please, for once, focus on what is actually important here?”

“Okay,” I say quickly, nodding. “Sorry. It’s just nuts what’s up there – have you gotten to see it all? Do you know what’s in all of those cabinets?”

Fall For My Ex's Mafia Father Chapter 0137 Daniel just gives me a withering, exhausted stare and I bite my lip, realizing that I’ve done it again. “Sorry,” I murmur, and then I look down at my hands and sigh. “Daniel, I haven’t slept with your dad.”

From the edges of my vision I can see him sit back in his chair in relief.

“But that doesn’t mean that I won’t,” I continue, raising my eyes slowly to his.

Daniel’s mouth falls open in disbelief as he stares at me. I blink, surprised, and realize that he was actually hoping that there had been some mistake – that there was some kind of reasonable explanation for why I was running around the third floor in my underwear.

And that actually, I may have just confirmed one of his worst fears. That he was losing his one ally in his house to his dad. I shake my head slowly, opening my mouth to tell him that I’m sorry, but suddenly a plate of food lands in front of me.

I look up, my mouth still open, to see Kent standing there, sliding a plate in front of Daniel as well. I look him over, noting the chef’s apron tied tight around his slim waist, his clean-shaven cheeks below eyes with dark circles beneath them. Apparently, he got less sleep than I did last night.