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.

brothers were devastated – especially Adriano, who had a soft side I’d

in so much pain, I did everything

it was just holding him at night as we lay in bed, slowly

him in

Aurelio left – and took half the

did, but I knew he did something important. Very important. The way everyone deferred

for the family. Instead, he went out

that wasn’t some mafia-style shit, I don’t

funeral, more than half the kitchen staff was gone. Signora Lombardi, Nuncio, and most of my older co-workers left to go work in Fausto’s new

way, was great for

to deal with

fixing lunch

was chaotic and three times as much work, but I was finally

And people noticed.

me my food

that the quality of breakfast and lunch had

merely nodded and said, “Good shit,” every

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

although that didn’t make me trust

Signor Dario got out of prison and

staff was instructed to

After Valentino, he

made

me, not once. In fact, he

was just so…

a king. Mysterious

And dangerous.

was definitely something that felt very

he was

after Dario arrived, Alessandra