The ride home was great.
Paolo appreciated that I got out to the car on time.
After a few minutes of pleasant chatting, we stopped talking, after which I replayed movies in my head of my morning with Cat.
The sounds she’d made.
The way her breasts had felt in my hands –
The way her pussy had caressed my cock.
The look on her face as she came over and over and over.
It had been a fucking great day.
A great day fucking, you might say.
So when we got back to Don Vicari’s compound, I was feeling pretty good.
That all changed at the drop of a hat.
I had just walked into the kitchen when an older servant looked up at me.
There was no mistaking the look of terror on her face.
I stopped in my tracks, wondering what the fuck had happened.
All of a sudden, an angry voice boomed from the other side of the house.
“IS THAT HIM? SEND HIM IN HERE!”
It was Don Vicari –
And he sounded furious.
Shit.
Shit, shit, SHIT –
My mind raced.
Had he found out about Cat?
Was she in danger?!
Was I about to be killed?!
Everything in me wanted to run –
But I forced myself to put one foot in front of the other until I got to the study.
When I walked into the room, Don Vicari was sitting at his desk, a demonic scowl on his face.
Rocco was standing next to him.
My first reaction was You fucking son of a bitch –
But then I realized that Rocco hadn’t sold me out. Not intentionally, at least.
His eyes were downcast, his lips were quivering, and he looked like he might start crying any second.
There was a bright red mark on his cheek –
Like he’d been viciously slapped.
Or maybe even punched.
The ‘tough guy’ had gotten smacked around by Daddy.
But then I realized what that meant for me:
Nothing good, that was for sure.
“You wanted to see me?” I asked.
“Where the fuck were you today?” Vicari snarled.
I stared at him in surprise.
Oh shit.
“Yeah,” Don Vicari said with a savage smile. “I’ve got eyes and ears everywhere. Rocco didn’t know I had a mole in his crew. He called me earlier to tell me Rocco punched you and left you behind, and then you just disappeared. So tell me, pretty boy – what the fuck were you doing?”
I knew from Rocco’s expression that the jig was up.
No point in lying.
…unless it was lying by omission.
“In exchange for punching me in front of his crew – so he got to look tough in front of his guys – Rocco let me go,” I said. “So I went drinking.”
Rocco, who had been staring at the floor like a five-year-old, looked up at me in surprise.
Don Vicari frowned. Apparently he hadn’t been expecting a confession.
(Even though I left out the part about who I was drinking with. And what else I was doing with her.)
“Bullshit,” Vicari snapped.
“It’s the truth.”
“Where were you drinking?”
Shit.
don’t know Ragusa,” I said. “Somewhere
were a shit-ton of steps in Ragusa,
narrowed his
me smell your breath,” he
about the drinking because
had Cat and I drunk the complimentary bottle of champagne that came with the
two bottles from
Okay, okay…
maybe
drunk all
from two and a
was 100% sure he wouldn’t smell sex on me because I’d
he wouldn’t smell anything else because Cat had followed Paolo’s advice about
Don Vicari, leaned over, and
way, this was – by far – the weirdest fucking thing that had ever happened to me in the Cosa Nostra: a mafia
fuck is
“Champagne.”
with disgust. “Champagne?! What the fuck
in one second
care if anybody was gay or not
knew
obviously questioning my manhood
insult he could
my
was already buzzed
did something I
Scratch that:
I definitely
you ever call me that again, I’ll slap
at me in
was
his expression
up and swung his arm at me in an open-handed
hand-to-hand combat for months
even think. I just blocked
inside of his, HARD, and stopped
like he was about to shit a bowling
as I’d realized what I’d
Vicari looked absolutely
around the
though, his hands were
bull and swung at me
stepped out of
at me
I stepped
his
he aimed directly
Fuck this.
I wasn’t
“Is that the kind of pussy you want in your family? Somebody who’ll let another man call him
the barrel of
he started roaring
his hands (including the one with the gun) braced on his knees, and
him laugh in that psycho way of his,
Nothing like this.
Neither had Rocco, apparently.
seen aliens walk out
father like, Am I on drugs?! WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING
I had no clue.
thought about trying to disarm Don Vicari and take
way out of a compound surrounded by a
No thanks.
decided to ride it
Vicari stood up 60 seconds later, he wiped a tear from
had balls, kid, I didn’t even know the half
said casually, like
his head. “Why the fuck would you pull this bullshit just so
said, not knowing what
turned to Rocco. “He likes to
but his eyes
Rocco was
started laughing along with Don Vicari, thinking the danger was
was when he
into my gut like a
but his old man sure as shit
All the air went out of me, and I
hair, yanked my head to the side, and bent down close to my ear. “That’s for talking back to me, you little cocksucker. Do not EVER do that again. If you disrespected me like that in front of anybody else but
unable to say anything because I still couldn’t
“And this – ”
an open palm into my face, knocking
over a dozen guys in my
punch half
– is for not following my fucking directions and
sprawled on the floor,
back into my lungs. I
was ringing, the side of my face
up and straightened his jacket. Then
shithead, that took some fuckin’ balls,” he said.
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