Mafia Kings: Valentino: Dark Mafia Romance Series #6 by Olivia Thorn

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

good news,” Don Vicari announced. “I’ve decided to let Valentino escort you around Sicily to various towns. So you can see

looked up in

her father, her lower lip

I am,” he said, almost in annoyance. “I wouldn’t have said it if

hugged her father from the side as she continued to cry. “Thank you, Papa – thank

even wider as he

of the few times I’d ever seen him look genuinely happy… like he

at Isabella

Don Vicari said, his smile shifting to something

“Really?!” Isabella sobbed.

and ran towards me as though she was going to

she

to foot like an

you, Valentino!

on her face was

one should be that happy about traveling 50 miles away

God-given right. Something they’d done all their

Vicari asked, his voice happy but tinged with dark