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

Chapter 71

Mafia Kings: Valentino: Chapter 70

Another upside of not having to work on Rocco’s crew was that I didn’t have to get up at the ass-crack of dawn anymore.

I was eating breakfast around 8 the next morning with Isabella and Ludavica – under the watchful and disapproving eye of an older kitchen servant – when Paolo walked in.

“Hey, boss,” he said cheerfully.

Guess he was happy about his promotion to Isabella’s bodyguard.

“Good morning,” I said.

“Signorinas,” he said respectfully to Isabella and Ludavica.

Isabella smiled back at him and said Ciao.

Ludavica said Ciao but didn’t smile.

Then Paolo turned back to me.

“Hey, boss,” he said excitedly, “take a look at this!”

He opened his suit jacket to reveal a shoulder holster and revolver.

“You know how to handle that thing?” I asked.

“Yes,” he said, offended.

“Okay.”

“So – where’re we headed this fine morning?” he asked Isabella.

“I asked Papa if we could go to Cefalù, and he said yes.”

“Where’s Cefalù?” I asked.

“About an hour and a half north of here,” Paolo said. “On the coast.”

I frowned. “How far is Cefalù from Ragusa?”

Paolo looked at me with wide eyes and a fake smile like, What the fuck are you asking THAT for? “Uh… three and a half hours, give or take?”

Shit. That meant Cat’s taxi would have to drive pretty far.

I needed to call her as soon as we got out of here.

“Alright, then – let’s get going,” I said.

We all walked out to the SUV. I got in the front passenger seat beside Paolo, and both girls got in the back.

As soon as Paolo was on the main road, I said, “Let me see your phone.”

He laughed nervously and looked at me like, Are you crazy?! “Uh… why, boss?”

“So I can call Caterina.”

I said it mostly to see what his reaction would be.

He didn’t disappoint.

He swerved into the oncoming lane, although he recovered quickly enough.

Luckily nobody was coming in the opposite direction.

“Jesus, don’t kill us!” I barked.

Paolo laughed nervously again. “Who’s Caterina?”

“We already know,” Isabella informed him from the backseat.

Paolo looked around in bug-eyed terror. “You do?!”

“Yes.” Then Isabella looked at me. “Is that her name? Caterina?”

“Yeah,” I said uncomfortably.

It was a little weird talking to your future wife about the girl you were banging.

“That’s a pretty name,” Isabella said sweetly.

“Yeah,” I said lamely.

What was I supposed to say?

Thank you?

I agree?

Instead, I focused on Paolo. “Your phone.”

Paolo was sweating now. “This is a bad idea.”

“Now you know why you got your promotion.”

He glared at me –

But he got distracted when Isabella said, “We can keep a secret.”

Paolo looked at them in the rearview mirror, then shook his head and swore under his breath.

“PHONE,” I said.

He pulled it out and slapped it into my palm.

“Pull off the road up ahead,” I ordered him.

“Why?”

at him. “So I can talk

to

my girlfriend.

“Awww,” Ludavica complained playfully.

fun than I’d ever seen before. “What is she, then – your

she’s a fuck buddy,” Ludavica said, which made

then both girls collapsed

rearview mirror, then looked at Paolo. “Pull

and had shut the door on the girls’ playful taunts and

“…hello?” she answered warily.

“It’s me.”

her voice

Cat being my girlfriend but quickly

to

“Of course!”

something we need to

Caterina sounded worried. “…oh?”

didn’t work

know about us?” she

to get out

“…which is…?”

me and show

was a long

her name?” Cat finally asked. “Your

I said in annoyance. “Yes, that’s

Another long pause.

out about us if you’ve got to show her

“She already knows.”

“SHE ALREADY KNOWS?!”

scream before. It took me by

doesn’t want to get married to me, either, but she

“And you believe her?!”

lockdown. She’s only left her house a couple times in her

hear the bewilderment in Cat’s voice. “And she’s HOW

that’s not the important part

your future wife about us isn’t the important part,” Cat said

part is her father’s a fucking psychopath, and yesterday I saw what he did to somebody who crossed him,” I said angrily. “It wasn’t pretty. In

Silence.

I said, trying to bring it down a notch, “I called you to warn you. If you don’t want to run

don’t want to run the

Of him

under the nose of Niccolo and Don Rosolini. If either of THEM had found out I was going to see you, I don’t think it

have done anything to you – they would’ve just stopped

be so nice about it if they found me here

do anything to you,”

out?” she asked softly. “Are you just trying to just let me

“What?! No! Absolutely not!”

“Are YOU afraid?”

clarified. “Not for me. I’m afraid for you. If anything happened to you… I

happens to me,

I said with

to be with

wondered how careful Don Vicari’s

I had to admit, I

said happily. “Alright,

do I

It’s pretty far from

I better

when you get there.

can’t wait to see

said warmly, a huge swell of emotion surging in my chest.

I stopped myself.

had been about to say something I had never said to

wasn’t a good idea

Especially now.

“…yes?” Cat whispered hopefully.

I struggled to answer…

said,

Another long pause.

soon,” she said sadly, then hung

Shit.

to get laid in a few hours, I was suddenly incredibly

what Isabella

Do you love her?

way here for you –

should probably START to think about it,

there for a long

looked through the other calls on Paolo’s phone until

Alessandra’s number.

was one of many Lars had made us all

waited, my heart beating twice as

familiar voice

“Alessandra?”

are you doing calling from

lent it

“So it’s going okay?”

a couple of times in the last couple

know!” Alessandra

“…you do?”

me. I’m

lifted my spirits the tiniest

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