Mafia Kings: Valentino: Chapter 30

We left the hotel in a caravan of Alfa Romeo SUVs, all black.

Don Vicari didn’t like to splurge on his jet, but at least his cars were only a few years old.

Vicari sat behind the driver. I sat behind the guy riding shotgun.

He was literally riding shotgun, by the way: he had a sawed-off double-barrel Remington between his legs, angled down towards the floor.

I prayed that Niccolo had been right about Sicilians being extremely paranoid. Otherwise, it sure looked like they were expecting to get ambushed by somebody.

As we got on the interstate, the BMW sedan carrying Niccolo went one way while the rest of the vehicles went the other.

Don Vicari stared silently at the driver’s seat. Neither the driver nor the guy riding shotgun said anything, either.

It freaked me out a little how nobody was talking…

But I didn’t really want to talk anyway, so I gazed out at the scenery.

Palermo seemed to go on forever. It was way bigger than Florence, the city closest to my home.

Well…

What used to be my home.

Suddenly, a ringtone broke the silence.

Shotgun Guy reached into his suit jacket and pulled out a cell phone. He answered it, listened, and then held out the phone. “It’s for you, boss.”

Vicari took it. “What,” he said emotionlessly.

His face darkened.

“Tell him you’re not hanging around to take him back,” he growled.

After the guy on the other end said something, Vicari looked even more pissed off. “Fine. Fuck him, then.”

He hung up the phone and passed it back to Shotgun.

“Your brother switched plans on me,” Vicari said without looking at me.

My heart beat faster from hope. “Dario?”

“No, the consigliere.”

“Oh.” Nic. “What did he do?”

“He’s not taking the jet back to Tuscany.”

“What?” I asked, surprised.

Vicari’s face twisted into a bitter scowl. “Maybe he doesn’t trust me to deliver him home in one piece.”

not it,”

turned slowly to look at me – sort of like, You got somethin’ you wanna fuckin’

I quickly explained.

me was to never question a Sicilian’s integrity. He said you swore on

stared at me for a few seconds

a mildly surprised

no longer seemed

say why he’s not flying back?”

“No.”

could tell he was still annoyed, so

arranged

back to staring wordlessly at the back

my phone to scroll through Instagram

be honest, I wanted to see if

he held out

I asked

“Give me your phone.”

“Why?!”

don’t want you talking to girls back home when you’re supposed to marry my daughter

of nailed

wasn’t going to give up that

aren’t any girls back home,”

smirk. “I had

I asked, trying to

quite the reputation

an exaggeration,” I said humbly… even though

Vicari actually smiled. Not one of his creepy serial killer smiles, but something with actual

at me when he did it. He was staring off past me into the distance,

know, I was a ladies’ man back when I was your age. I courted all the most

and the shotgun

Vicari said as he pointed at his men. “‘Big Dick

say, boss,” Shotgun said with

Um…

Okay…

“Angry fathers trying to kill me. We

by ‘go away,’ he didn’t mean bribing

Jesus fucking Christ…

kids all over Sicily. Never wore a condom, not once, and I never pulled

in the front

was getting intensely uncomfortable

when I met my sainted Matelda,” Vicari said, switching

and shotgun guy both immediately

Shotgun actually crossed himself.

star tells me he hasn’t got any girls back home, I know he’s either lying or he’s a

‘fennel’ – but

it?” Vicari asked

said back just as

his hand for my phone. “Let’s keep

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