Falling for My Ex’s Mafia Dad — Episode 67
Mara demanded immediate medical access. The detention center claimed Kent injured himself during transport, an explanation contradicted by another prisoner who saw officers remove him from the vehicle already bleeding.
Fay refused to storm the facility with anger Grant could use. She filed emergency motions, contacted the inspector general, and requested preservation of every transport camera before footage could disappear.
Daniel wanted Lippert men surrounding the courthouse. Fay warned that a show of force would justify harsher confinement. Protecting Kent now required procedural discipline rather than intimidation.
The family’s captains disliked taking direction from her. One called her an outsider who had distracted Kent until rivals captured him. Fay answered with the signed corporate transition and Mara’s court authority.
She did not claim the Mafia throne. She ordered only legitimate security, evidence preservation, and protection of uninvolved families. Any captain acting independently would lose access to company resources.
Daniel supported her publicly. His endorsement quieted some resistance, but two senior men left the meeting without pledging compliance. Kent’s absence had opened the power vacuum he spent years preventing.
The inspector general located the transport footage. It showed an officer striking Kent after he refused to sign a prepared confession linking Ivan to Grant’s supposed murder.
The officer had served under Grant. He was suspended, and Kent received treatment for a concussion. The abuse weakened the prosecution’s claim that Grant’s network no longer influenced the case.
Fay obtained a monitored video call. Kent appeared pale, a bandage at his temple, but his voice remained steady. He asked whether she was safe before discussing himself.
She told him about the captains and the pressure to assume authority. Kent warned that leadership offered during crisis could become another cage. She should accept only powers she could later surrender.
Fay said she intended to protect legal businesses and people, not inherit criminal operations. Kent agreed and promised written support through counsel. Their conversation sounded almost ordinary until a guard announced the remaining minute.
Neither said goodbye. Fay placed her hand against the screen, and Kent mirrored it from the other side. The connection ended between their palms.
Ivan worked with technicians to reconstruct Grant’s archive. His access code opened a hidden directory containing draft affidavits dated before the events they described. The case against Kent had been written first and populated with evidence afterward.
One draft referenced a future pregnancy as leverage against Fay. No pregnancy existed, which proved Grant’s team planned contingencies based on her relationship with Kent rather than observed facts.
The invasion made Fay nauseated. Even hypothetical motherhood had been converted into a tactical variable. She copied the file for Mara and refused to let fear turn it into prophecy.
Another directory recorded payments from Lorenzo to detention officials. The first payment preceded Kent’s arrest by three weeks, confirming the outcome had been arranged before the warrant.
Mara prepared a motion to dismiss the tainted charges. Genuine ledger crimes would remain, but the homicide and solicitation counts could collapse if the conspiracy was proved.
Before filing, the archive began deleting itself remotely. Ivan disconnected the server, yet half the files vanished. Someone still possessed administrator control.
The deletion trace ended at Fay’s clinic. A device inside the foundation network had been Grant’s backup access point since construction began.
Security isolated the source to the office formerly assigned to Lorenzo. Inside its wall they found a live camera—and a woman watching from the other side who looked exactly like Fay’s mother.