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.

– especially Adriano, who had a soft side I’d never

was in so much pain, I did everything I

was just holding him at night as we lay in bed, slowly stroking his hair. We didn’t

we did, I did my best to drown him in pleasure so he could

big change was that Fausto and Aurelio left – and took half the household staff

Fausto did, but I knew he did something important. Very important. The way everyone deferred to him, it was like he

for the family. Instead, he went out

some mafia-style shit, I

half the kitchen staff was gone. Signora Lombardi, Nuncio, and most of

a way, was

deal with Fausto’s

got an immediate promotion to fixing lunch and breakfast with the

as much work, but I

And people noticed.

told me my food was amazing, so

both stopped by the kitchen to tell me that the quality of breakfast

and said, “Good shit,” every time he finished a meal and

that as huge praise, but considering who it came from, it really

me… although that didn’t make me trust him

out of prison and

staff was instructed to call

Valentino, he was

made me

not once. In fact, he frequently smiled

was just so…

a king.

And dangerous.

something that

he was the mafia

Dario arrived,