Mafia Kings: Valentino: Chapter 68

That evening at dinner, I couldn’t eat.

All I could think about was the man chained in the barn… the horrors of his wounds…

The way he had whispered, Please… KILL me…

Don Vicari seemed to take pleasure in my distress. He smiled throughout dinner like he’d heard an amusing joke.

The great-grandmother kept her eyes on her plate, not ever looking up from it as she ate.

Isabella kept glancing back and forth between me and her father.

Finally, she timidly broke the silence.

“Is… is something wrong, Valentino?”

“He just had a hard day at work,” Don Vicari said.

“Oh – I’m so sorry.” The look of concern she gave me was real.

weakly but couldn’t bring myself to

to let Valentino escort you around Sicily to various towns. So you

looked

her father, her lower

almost in annoyance.

suddenly burst into tears, jumped up from her seat, and ran around the table. She hugged her father from the side as she continued to cry. “Thank you,

wider as he patted her

him look genuinely happy… like he was a normal

at Isabella

smile shifting to something sly and wolfish. “Your

“Really?!” Isabella sobbed.

flew from her father’s side and ran towards me

stopped short, like she knew she shouldn’t come

foot to foot like an excited child

you, Valentino! Thank

face

one should be that happy about

their God-given right. Something they’d

asked, his voice

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