Chapter 305
Fall For My Ex's Mafia Father
Iâm still standing wide eyed, my mouth dropped open in shock, my little phone falling from my hands when Daniel and Jerome burst into my room.
Jerome slams and locks the door behind him.
âGet down!â Daniel shouts, dashing directly for my wardrobe.
âWhat?â I gasp, a little stupidly â but Iâm just so shocked â
âDown!â Jerome barks, running to my side and pressing on my shoulders, forcing me to my knees. He puts a hand protectively over my head, looking all around. The gunshots continue downstairs, as well as screams and yells â everything growing louder and more frequent -
âWhat the hell is going on!â I scream, frantic now with panic.
âI donât know!â Daniel snaps back, bending over into the wardrobe and pulling up a piece of wood from the bottom, reaching down below it and coming out with â
âOh my god,â I exclaim, my eyes going â if possible â wider when I see Daniel emerge from the wardrobe with a silver gun in his hand. âDid you put that there!?â
âNo,â he snaps, quickly snapping the pieces of the gun apart and back together in a way I donât understand, checking the bullets or something. âDad did. But obviously he didnât tell you about it, because youâd probably kill yourself dropping it or something.â
âJerk,â I breathe, glaring at him before spinning towards Jerome, completely freaked out now and totally confused about what the hell is going on.
âItâs a raid,â Jerome says, looking over towards the door. âI donât know who is behind it â a rival family?â
âNot the Russians,â Daniel says, moving over to us and glancing out the window, the gun held expertly at his side. âMaybe...Alden? But he wouldnât â
not with Fay in the house -â
I blink as I stare at Daniel, shocked â my mild-mannered bestie, who likes books and philosophy, looking like a god damn secret agent with a gun cocked and ready by his side. He actually looks, for once, like the son of a mafia don.
What â what was happening to my life?
Was this even real?
I jump and shriek as more gunfire echoes from below, as if in answer to my question â that yes, this is indeed real.
Fall For My Ex's Mafia Father ï¤Chapter 0304 âWhatâs our next step,â Jerome asks, looking up at Daniel from his spot crouched down on the floor next to me. Daniel moves away from the window now, turning towards the door.
âWe wait,â he growls, positioning himself in front of us and raising the gun to point it at the door, ready to shoot whoever comes through it next.
âShould we,â I start, thinking frantically and glancing to the wardrobe, âshould we go through the wardrobe? Downstairs? Try to find your dad?â
âNo,â he says, shaking his head. âDad says that if youâre in a place of safety and you donât have a clear way out â if you donât know precisely how youâre going to get away â you stay put and defend that space until you know whatâs going on. We donât know who is down there or what is happening. We donât know how to get to a car. So, we entrench.â
I start to shake now with the fear and the adrenaline coursing through my body. Jerome puts an arm around my shoulders, I think for his comfort as much as his. âOkay,â Jerome says, nodding and agreeing to Danielâs plan, letting him take lead on it.
And then we all...sit there. For way too long.
âWill your dad come up?â Jerome whispers, glancing again at the wardrobe.
âI donât know,â Daniel murmurs, glancing at him and then at me. And then down at my stomach. And I groan a little, almost able to read his mind on this: that Kent, if he can, will come up here. Because Iâm here. And Iâm pregnant. And his base instinct, in all of this, is going to be to protect his son and this new maybe-baby, even if he is pissed at me for getting knocked up.