Mafia Kings: Valentino: Dark Mafia Romance Series #6 by Olivia Thorn

Mafia Kings: Valentino: Chapter 16

All in all, I really enjoyed my job and where I worked.

And though I might not have gotten every single thing I wanted from Valentino – like the occasional tender lovemaking – I still didn’t want things to ever change.

But they did.

Everything does, eventually.

The first huge change was when a Swedish man named Lars came to the house.

He was very handsome. Not as handsome as Valentino, obviously – but still plenty hot.

Lars had been in prison with Dario, Valentino’s oldest brother. Once Lars got out, Dario sent him to his family so they could give him a job.

They gave him a job, all right: overturning the apple cart.

Apparently he had been a soldier, because he began training all the men who worked for the family – and Valentino and his brothers – in self-defense and firing guns.

Overnight, the grounds around the mansion turned into a military base.

Valentino trained for hours in the afternoon and was so worn out that he temporarily stopped coming to my room at night.

Which was good in that I finally caught up on some much-needed sleep –

But I was beginning to get irritated with Signor Lars.

At least Val would still come into the kitchen in the early morning hours and fuck my brains out. That part didn’t change, thankfully.

Then tragedy struck:

Valentino’s father died. A heart attack out of nowhere.

who

in so much pain, I did

holding him at night as we lay in bed, slowly stroking his

drown him in pleasure so he could forget his grief, at least

big change was that Fausto and Aurelio left

everyone deferred to him, it

Leonardo’s death, Fausto no longer worked for the family. Instead, he went out on his

some mafia-style shit,

the kitchen staff was gone. Signora Lombardi, Nuncio,

a way,

deal with Fausto’s arrogance or Aurelio’s nastiness

to fixing lunch and breakfast

chaotic and three times as much work, but I

And people noticed.

always told me my food was amazing, so that wasn’t

Massimo both stopped by the kitchen to tell me that the quality of breakfast and lunch had improved immensely, which made me swell

“Good shit,” every

huge praise, but considering who

by and complimented me… although that didn’t

out of

everybody on staff was instructed

After Valentino, he was probably the hottest of the

made me really

never mean to me, not once. In fact, he frequently smiled if he saw me

was just so…

a king. Mysterious

And dangerous.

definitely something that felt

he was the

week after Dario arrived, Alessandra showed