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 the

to listen to your conversation

my girlfriend. And no,

“Awww,” Ludavica complained playfully.

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

buddy,” Ludavica said, which made Isabella

collapsed into

at them in the rearview mirror, then looked at Paolo. “Pull over

shut the door on the girls’ playful taunts and Paolo’s obvious panic – I

“…hello?” she answered warily.

“It’s me.”

her voice suddenly

Isabella’s remark about Cat being my girlfriend but quickly brushed

to see me

“Of course!”

something we

Caterina sounded worried. “…oh?”

didn’t

he know about

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

“…which is…?”

to take Isabella with me and show her

a

her name?” Cat finally asked. “Your

I said in

Another long pause.

to keep her from finding out about us if you’ve

“She already knows.”

“SHE ALREADY KNOWS?!”

before. It took me by

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

“And you believe her?!”

lockdown.

hear the bewilderment in Cat’s

think. Look, that’s not the important part –

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

father’s a fucking psychopath, and yesterday I saw what he did to

Silence.

notch, “I called you to warn you. If you don’t want to run the risk, I’d understand –

run the

him finding

If either of THEM had found out I was going to see you, I don’t think it would have

anything to you – they would’ve just

about it if they found me

still wouldn’t do anything to you,”

softly. “Are you just trying

“What?! No! Absolutely not!”

“Are YOU afraid?”

for me. I’m afraid for you. If anything happened to you… I don’t think I could live with

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

dark,” I said

is.” She sighed. “Look, I KNOW this is dangerous. I don’t care. I only want to be with you. So if you’re asking me, then I’m in. All the way.

how careful Don Vicari’s consigliere had

I had to admit, I

I said

I meet

It’s pretty far from Ragusa – about three-and-a-half

better

get there. Or

will. I can’t

a huge swell of emotion surging in my chest. “I

I stopped myself.

had been about to say something I had never said to any

good

Especially now.

“…yes?” Cat whispered hopefully.

I struggled to answer…

just said, “I’ll see

Another long pause.

she said

Shit.

somebody who was going to get laid in a few hours, I was

Isabella had said

Do you love her?

for you – and you hadn’t ‘thought about

to

there for a long time,

other calls on Paolo’s phone until

Alessandra’s number.

one of many Lars had made

waited, my heart beating twice as

familiar voice

“Alessandra?”

out joyously. “What are you

it to

“So it’s going okay?”

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

know!” Alessandra

“…you do?”

texting me. I’m so happy for you

so joyful, it lifted my spirits the

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