Forbidden Temptation My Mafia Fiance's Alpha Father

Chapter 93 Chapter 93 Brooklyn The next morning, a car takesto the stables, as requested.

It's not Lucas driving this time, and I'm quiet the whole journey.

I felt miserable all night, but a smile tugs at my lips as the driver pulls up to the barn.

As I get out of the car, my mind elsewhere, I do a double-take when I sees a flash of long purple hair. Wait.

"Oh my god," I whisper, standing shocked and still as Jolie peeks her head out of the barn.

And then we both scream, flying across the ground towards each other, colliding and wrapping our arms around each other, holding tight.

We pull back, staring, each of us hardly able to believe that the other is real.

"What are you doing here," I ask, unable to stop the tears streaming down my cheek.

"I can't believe you have a horse!" Jolie squeals at the smoment, laughing.

I step farther back, holding my sister at arm's length.

"Seriously," I say, shaking my head and marveling at Jolie. "How did you get here?" "Kenwood," Jolie says. "He cby the club last night and askedif I wanted to see you. We struck a deal." My eyes grow wide, disbelieving. Of all of the people in the world who I thought would helpreconnect with my sister...

The last on the list would have been Aden.

What had changed? I can't stop smiling at my sister as we slowly walk around the fenced paddock of the stables, Heathcliff happily walking alongside us.

Jolie, unfortunately, is less happy about the company than Heathcliff is.

"Are you sure he's not going to, like, rear or something?" she asks, looking at my horse from the side of her eye. "Or kick me?" I laugh. "Seriously, Jolie, calm down-he's a big softie! And he needs his exercise." Jolie narrows her eyes as Heathcliff looks at her curiously, then snorts.

When he reaches his nose curiously out towards her, she flinches, and I crack up.

"So, he just...bought you a horse?" Jolie asks. "No questions asked?" I shrug.

"Money is...different, in these circles. They have so much of it that giving people expensive things is more about the gesture than what the thing itself is worth." Jolie raises her eyebrows at me, smirking. "Look at you, little rich girl." I wrinkle my nose at her. "Don't be jealous." She laughs at that.

"I'm not jealous, Brooklyn-I'm making stacks on stacks at the club every night." She flicks her hair back haughtily. "Maybe I'll get a horse of my own." But she flinches again when Heathcliff gives a little whinny, and I seriously doubt it.

Jolie and I spend the next few hours together, walking Heathcliff around the property.

We let him run and prance in the arena before taking him back to his stall for a good grooming.

I'm pleased when I'm able to convince Jolie to take part in brushing Heathcliff at least, giving her a curry comb and showing her how to use it.

While we work, we talk.

I tell her all about my life in the Kenwood house, about meeting my biological father, about Aden's warnings about my place within the mafia world.

I don't hold anything back, grateful to again have a sister to whom I can tell anything.

"I'm sorry," I say, at the end of it all.

"About...what I said to you, and to dad, when we first found out about all of this stuff. It was just Aden doing his Wolf King slash mafia thing, trying to get control of me." Jolie bits her lip.

"Don't worry about it. Dad and I figured it out a few days later when we cooled off. You know we love you - nothing is ever going to change that." I feel tears prick my eyes as she says that.

I did worry. I had been so cruel, and I wondered if they'd ever forgive me.

It's so refreshing to my spirit to know that they forgaveimmediately and were just waiting for a way to get back into my life.

"So," Jolie says, frowning a little and leaning against the stall's wall.

"What changed? Why did Kenwood suddenly relent and open this doorway forto be back in your life?" "Well," I say, studying my horse's flank instead of looking her in the eye. "I don't know, honestly. The last that Aden and I talked he was livid with me, tellingI'd better fall in line. And then today, you're here?" I look up into her face, confused. "He blows hot and cold on me. I don't understand." I frown when I see Jolie's mouth pulling up into a little smirk as she crosses her arms, lookingover. "What?" I ask, confused.

"What is the deal with you two?" she asks, her smirk deepening. "I mean, you're engaged to Hudson, but all day our conversation has been Aden, Aden, Aden." "Well," I say defensively, "Hudson's not really in control of the family and hasn't been making a lot of decisions about my life. Honestly, Hudson is really nice to me-" "Really nice to you?" Jolie says,

raising an eyebrow now. "The way you talk about Hudson, he's justm snice little puppy you play with sometimes. The way you talk about Aden, though..." She laughs a little bit, shaking her head at me.

"Are you sure he isn't the fiancé?"

"Ew, Jolie," I say, arranging the features of my face into an e into an om expression of disgust that, if I'm being honest, I don't actually feel. "He's, like...old." She shrugs. "Sof my older gentlemen are my best clients."

"Well," I say, tossing Heathcliff's comb into its bin and facing herm directly "Aden is not my client. So, you Can end that line of thinking right there." "But why not, though?" Jolie says, leaning forward and smiling eagerly at me. "I can tell you like him. And he's hot..." "Jolie!" I say, getting upset and stomping my foot like we're four years old again.

"Okay, sis," she says, coming and putting an arm around my shoulders. "Whatever you say." She pullswith her out of the stall.

"I have to be getting back." I bite my lip. "Do I get to see you again?" She smiles smugly. "Yeah, that's part of the deal. Aden is going to letsee you on the regular, which I think is good. Stay safe, okay? Try not to die." Then, she glances down at my hand, where I'm wearing my engagement ring.

"But if you do die, please make sure to leavethat in your will." I laugh, then, unable to help myself.

God, I'm so glad to have my sister back.

Whatever could have made Aden do this for me? I head home, eager to find out.