Claimed Mafia Bride: A Dark Mafia Romance (The Bonanno Family Book 3) by Mae Doyle

Author:Mae Doyle [Doyle, Mae]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-08-18T16:00:00+00:00

Jane

“Oh, baby, did you hear that?” My stomach feels like it’s dropped not only down to my feet, but straight through the floor and taken the escalator all the way to hell. Seriously. I honestly want to throw up right now and the urge is so strong that I swallow hard before I can look at Annie.

Fuck. She’s a dead ringer for her father. Her gorgeous eyes, the thick dark hair, the way her mouth curves up a little bit on the corners when she’s happy. Even her laugh. I’m sure that anyone in a crowd could pick it out as his. Granted, I only heard him laugh once, at the pub the night he knocked me up, but I remember it.

“I heard that I look like someone.” She walks into the kitchen, staring at me. Even though she’s just three, she’s more observant than other kids that I’ve met. I don’t think that she’s special or crazy smart or anything, but she keeps me on my toes and once she hears something that interests her, she doesn’t let it go.

“Grandpa,” I tell her, looking my little girl in the eyes and lying to her. Across the table from me I hear my mom suck in a breath but I ignore her. “You look like my dad.”

“Nuh-uh. You said that he’d know I was his daughter. That means you’re talking about my dad.” Stopping right in front of me, she stares at me like she can’t believe that I’d lie to her. “Don’t lie to me, Mommy.”

Closing my eyes, I exhale hard, praying that the floor will open and suck me down to hell. I don’t care if I have to give the Devil himself a lap dance every night as long as I don’t have to try to figure out what I’m going to say to Annie.

But when I open my eyes there aren’t any flames surrounding me. Rather, it’s just my daughter, who’s stepped closer, and is still staring at me like she can make me crack by force of will alone.

“Okay, Annie, I was talking about your dad,” I finally say, because I’m so tired of lying. I’ve been lying to her for her entire life, lying to myself when I said that I don’t want Trevor, and then lied to him. Everyone who’s ever met us has been a recipient of my lies when I told them that her dad died and not to mention him to her.

It’s exhausting. No matter how well I think that I’ve kept up the facade, it’s getting to be too much and I honestly don’t think that I can handle doing it any longer. I need to come clean with everyone in my life, even the precious three year old standing in front of me and looking at me like she can’t believe that I wouldn’t always tell her the truth.

“My dad?” There’s hope in her eyes and splashed across her face and I immediately feel guilty. “Where is he?”

My

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