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?”

him. “So I can talk to her outside

listen to your conversation

girlfriend. And no, you

“Awww,” Ludavica complained playfully.

exclaimed. She was having more fun than I’d ever seen before. “What is she, then – your

a fuck buddy,” Ludavica said, which made

collapsed into gales of

them in the rearview mirror,

– and had shut the door on the girls’ playful taunts and Paolo’s

“…hello?” she answered warily.

“It’s me.”

she said, her voice

Cat being my girlfriend but quickly brushed

to see

“Of course!”

there’s something we need to talk

Caterina sounded worried. “…oh?”

I didn’t work with his

he know about us?” she

him I went out drinking, and he bought it. But in order to get

“…which is…?”

have to take Isabella with me and show her around

a

her name?” Cat finally

wife,” I said in annoyance. “Yes,

Another long pause.

going to keep her from finding out

“She already knows.”

“SHE ALREADY KNOWS?!”

heard Cat scream before. It took

I said quickly. “She’s fine with it. She doesn’t want to get

“And you believe her?!”

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

in Cat’s

not the important

your future wife about us isn’t the important part,” Cat said sarcastically. “What’s

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 fact,

Silence.

it down a notch, “I called you to warn you. If you don’t want to run the risk, I’d

I don’t want to run the risk,” she

him finding

Rosolini. If either of THEM had found out I was

you – they

nice about it if they found me here

still wouldn’t do anything to you,” I said in

softly. “Are you

“What?! No! Absolutely not!”

“Are YOU afraid?”

I said, then clarified. “Not for me. I’m afraid for you. If anything happened to you… I don’t

to me, I’m pretty sure it’ll happen to you, too. So you won’t

said

I don’t care. I only want to be with you. So if you’re asking me, then I’m in. All the

how careful Don

I was

I said happily.

I meet

called Cefalù. It’s pretty far

better

text me when you get there. Or

can’t wait

I said warmly, a huge swell of emotion surging in

I stopped myself.

been about to say something I had never

a good

Especially now.

“…yes?” Cat whispered hopefully.

I struggled to answer…

finally just said,

Another long pause.

you soon,” she said

Shit.

laid in a

what Isabella had said last

Do you love her?

here for you – and you

to think about it,

there for a long

then I looked through the other calls on Paolo’s

Alessandra’s number.

Lars had

pressed the number and waited, my heart beating

familiar voice

“Alessandra?”

are you doing calling

lent it to

“So it’s going okay?”

– yeah, it’s going great. I’ve seen Caterina a couple of times in the

Alessandra said

“…you do?”

I’m so

so joyful, it lifted my spirits

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