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 had a soft

was in so much pain, I did everything I could to comfort

as we lay in bed, slowly stroking his hair. We

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

big change was that Fausto and Aurelio left –

he did something important. Very important. The way everyone deferred to him, it was like he was the second

no longer worked for the family. Instead, he went

that wasn’t some mafia-style shit,

was gone. Signora Lombardi, Nuncio, and most of my older co-workers

way, was

to deal with Fausto’s

also got an immediate promotion to fixing lunch and breakfast with the few morning staff

and three times as much work, but

And people noticed.

always told me my food was amazing, so

to tell me that the quality of breakfast and lunch had improved immensely, which made me swell

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

but considering

complimented me… although that didn’t make me trust

then Signor Dario got out of prison and

took over his father’s spot because everybody on staff was

handsome as hell. After Valentino, he was

made me

mean to me, not once. In fact, he frequently smiled if

just so…

king.

And dangerous.

something that felt very dangerous about

was

week after Dario arrived, Alessandra