Chapter 10
Chapter 10 — Father and Son Talk—1
When Kent walks into his office, he’s surprised to see Daniel standing there,
staring out the window, watching a car pull
away.
“Who is in that car?” Daniel asks.
Kent crosses to his desk and sits down in his chair, folding his hands. He takes a
moment to study his son. Daniel is tall, handsome, clever; but he doesn’t yet
have the grit that he needs to lead this family.
“If you already know,” Kent says softly. “Why don’t you just tell me what you're
thinking?”
“Fine,” Daniel says, and Kent is happy to hear some anger in his voice. Daniel
turns to look Kent in the eye. “That's my girlfriend's family, riding away in that car.
What did you do to them?”
“I did nothing to them,” Kent says, “except a favor to Fay Thompson, this
girlfriend you never told me about. Tell me, how long have you been seeing her?”
“Cut the crap, dad,” Daniel says, angrily crossing to confront him. Kent smiles,
pleased to see a little fire in this studious boy. “You know I've only been seeing
her for a few months — you know —”
“I know,” Kent interrupts, “that she is not who you thought she was. And I know
that you've already heard all about this from
“You have been engaged to Fay Alden since your childhood,”
Kent says quietly. “It would be an advantageous match. She's got the
connections, the family, the money you'd need to keep this family afloat. The:
question is...do you want her?”
Daniel looks away from him, embarrassed. “She's fine. She's very nice. And
funny.”
“What,” Kent says, his voice deliberately mocking. “Is that all? She doesn’t do it
for you, Daniel? Doesn't raise your... heartrate?”
Daniel blushes and scowls. “No, it’s nothing like that — it's just
“It's just what, Daniel,” his father says, banging his hand on the desk, trying to
shock the truth out of him. “You've got other girls on the line?”
“No,” Daniel says quickly, glaring. “I have...I have lots of girlfriends, you know.
Girls for different...occasions...” he mumbles this, and his father subtly shakes
his head.
Kent knows his son has...proclivities. Frankly, he doesn't care, as long as Daniel
does his duty by the family.
“You will take a wife,” Kent says, his voice granite.
“I will.” Daniel says, his head hanging a little, acknowledging his obligation. “I just
want to make sure she’s the right one.”
Kent stands to put his hand on Daniel's shoulder, glad to see him acknowledge
his responsibilities. “So, what are the
Daniel shrugs, not knowing what to say, except the unthinkable: she knows I'm
gay and she hates me for it.
“What,” Kent presses, giving him a little shake. “Is she...impure? Does she fool
around with other guys?”
Daniel looks up at his father, frowning, a little pissed off at his implications.
“Come on, Dad,” he snaps. “You know she’s not.”
Kent laughs and shakes his son's shoulder. “Good, it's good to get angry
sometimes, son. Let it feed you. Take it, control it.”
Daniel sighs, sorry to have played into his father’s hand once again. “You know
Fay is...pure. I'm the only guy she’s ever dated, her first love. And I haven't
touched her.”
His father raises an eyebrow at that, silently asking why not, but Daniel frowns
and shakes his father’s hand off his shoulder. “We barely started dating, okay?
There wasn't...time.”
“She's a good girl,” Kent confirms, looking over his son’s shoulder out the
window. “She’s loyal, kind, innocent. But brave, too.”
Kent's mind wanders for just a moment as he considers his interactions with Fay.
Her wide—eyed innocence, her creamy ivory skin, that long red hair. He was
impressed with her performance today, too. She has grit, he thinks, that she
doesn’t know she has,
She reminds him, suddenly, of the Sicilian girls he met when he would go back to
Italy with his mother as a boy — delicate by one turn, temperamental the next, at
once a dove and a viper.
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Chapter 10 — Father and Son Talk-2
Kent blinks, bringing himself back to the room, and finds Daniel looking at him
strangely. Kent clears his voice, keeping his face unreadable.
“She'll be a good wife, son,” he says, patting his boy again on the shoulder. “You
can’t do better, and you could do worse. And it's good you met outside of the
arrangement — at least you two know you like each other to begin with. That will
make things... easier.”
Daniel shrugs, not meeting his eyes.
“What is it?” Kent demands.
“She’s just kind of...mad at me,” Daniel confesses. “We kind of had a fight. A big
one.” He looks up at the ceiling. “And now she’s upstairs. And we're engaged.”
He shrugs and shudders a little bit. “I don’t know, it's weird!”
Kent frowns at him, then, a little frustrated. “Pull it together, boy,” he says, his
voice cold. “One day you'll have control of this family, and the least difficult thing
you'll have to control is that girl. Toughen up, Daniel.”
Daniel straightens his shoulders, trying, but still doesn’t meet Kent's s eye. “What
should I do? How do I do it?”
“Teach her,” Kent explains. “She’s not part of this world, and if she’s going to
survive in it, you've got to teach her how to be a mafia wife. Her life is in your
bonde ”
Kent is glad to see that he seems to rise to the challenge. Perhaps this is what it
will take to make Daniel a good man: the right
woman.
Sensing some closure to the problem, Kent pats Daniel roughly on the shoulder
again and gives him a shove, dismissing him from his office. With a small smile,
Daniel leaves.
Before the door closes behind him, Kent catches sight of Daniel looking up the
stairs, considering a visit with his bride—to-be.
Kent seats himself at his desk again, staring at the closed door, and suddenly
feels...damnit.
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what it would be like to climb those
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What it would be like to take two
steps forward and grab her, pull her
to him, make her gasp as he wrapped
a hand in the hair at the base of her
scalp and pulled her head back,
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To feel the moan echoing inside her chest, pressed against him, as he ground his
hips against hers, the proud length of his cock pressed between them.
He could show her, then, what it was to be a good wife. To become subservient,
to learn how to anticipate his needs, to make her will his own.
He could make a girl like Fay willingly give up her independence, serve him
happily, if it meant that every night.
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Kent snaps his head to the side,
pressing his eyes closed, forcing
himself — forcing himself — to stop
thinking these thoughts. That was
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going to be his son's wife, after all.
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But damnit, thinking about her has made him so hard.
Kent reaches for the phone on his desk, picking it up and quickly dialing.
The person on the other end answers in one ring. “Hey baby,” she purrs. “I've
been missing you.”
“Fiona,” he says, working to keep his voice even. “I'd like to see you at my place.
Haif an hour.”
She giggles on the other end. “Ohhhh, he’s in a rush. I'll be there pronto, baby.”
Another little giggle and she hangs up.
Kent stares at the phone in the hand knowing, in the pit of him, that Fiona is at
best a temporary fix.
He has a deeper hunger growing inside.
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