Forbidden Temptation My Mafia Fiance's Alpha Father (Brooklyn and Aden)

Aden

Foolish

girl.

There is nowhere she can go that I won't find her.

There is something between us, a bond, whether she wants to admit it or not.

And the trouble she'd cause me as I hunted her down-she'd have to pay for that.

I check myself, realizing I'm growing angry again, that it's precisely this side of Brooklyn that fills me with rage.

That causes my wolf to rear its head.

When she's unpredictable and stupid and follows what she wants instead of what I know is good for her.

"I don't know," Brooklyn says softly, pulling me out of my thoughts and back to their conversation. "I don't know...if there's anything to run to."

"Not back home? Or to France, like we talked about?" Hudson asks, curious. "There are shifters there. Communities we could be a part of."

"I just..." she says slowly. "I don't know if that world exists for me anymore. Or maybe it's that the old Brooklyn, the person I used to be? Who fit into that world? I'm not sure she exists anymore."

"I'm sorry," Hudson says, and I can hear the guilt in my son's words. "It's all my fault."

"No," she says, quick to assuage him. "I'm not sure...honestly, I'm not sure I dislike the person I'm becoming in this world."

Now this takes me by surprise.

"The old me is gone," Brooklyn continues. "But...the new me? She's not half bad. I just wish...that your father realized that. That I want to be here."

She pauses.

"Honestly, I said some stuff to him today about-well, about wanting to explore the relationships with the jerks my father introduced me to."

She laughs then-she must see something on Hudson's face as he reacts to her words.

"No, Hudson," she says, her voice a little more cheerful now, "I didn't mean any of it. I just said it to piss him off. just wish that you dad would figure out that I want to be here with you, and with...I guess with him." noveldrama

"Do you really mean that?" Hudson says skeptically.

"I don't want to be on my father's side. I would be more than happy to pledge myself to the Kenwood family. I'm just not going to do it because he forces me to. God,¶f he were just...a little bit kinder tome."

swn'

"More flies with honey," Hudson says, his voice understanding. "That I do get. But I'm not sure that my dad will ever understand something like that. Allegiance, in response to kindness? It's not something that makes sense in his world."

"Well," Brooklyn says, a little pity in her voice. I narrow my eyes. "That's really a shame, isn't it?" "Enough," I mutter softly to myself, pushing up from my spot against the wall and striding out of the kitchen, towards my office.

As much as I hate to admit it, their quiet conversation outside...it's given me a lot to think about.