Mafia Kings: Valentino: Chapter 76

Despite Paolo being a worrywart, nothing bad happened. We got home in plenty of time.

At dinner, Don Vicari asked, “Did you enjoy your day out?”

Isabella started talking his ear off about Cefalù – the buildings, the restaurants, the ocean breezes, everything.

The old guy barely paid attention to her. He just grunted Mm-hm and That’s nice.

I think she was so high from her experience that she didn’t notice. Or didn’t care.

She just beamed like the sun coming out from behind the clouds.

“Can we go to another town tomorrow?” she asked eagerly.

“I suppose,” he said as he continued to cut his meat.

“Where?”

“I’ll talk with your fiancé after dinner.”

After dinner, Isabella almost went skipping out of the dining room.

The old lady came up and beamed as she patted my cheek.

“You a good boy,” she said, then followed her great-granddaughter.

Don Vicari had a slightly different reaction.

“I don’t care where you go tomorrow, just as long as I don’t have to hear every goddamn detail,” he said crankily as he walked out of the room.

Fuckin’ bastard.

Still…

We had his permission to keep going on.

That’s all I needed.


we got to see Messina, on the northeastern tip of Sicily… and Augusta… and Santa Maria del

two kids in

visited every museum, saw every famous landmark, and basked in the sunshine

they were truly experiencing freedom –

can’t say I was experiencing freedom,

visited, I got

enough

arrived – but I could tell she was having a harder

As the wedding approached.

didn’t ask her what was wrong because I

just held each

to ignore the disaster just


wedding, I asked Isabella where we were

big church. Maybe a cathedral in Palermo, so

place – no flower orders, no futzing over the reception menu, no drama about the wedding dress – but I figured he had people handling it behind the

I was surprised when Isabella said,

“…Resuttano?”

heard of

little place about five miles from here. There’s a chapel on the outskirts of the village. Papa and Mama

great-grandmother – the 91-year-old who

I asked in shock. “A

all got married there. Why – did you want something bigger?”

no,

with Don Vicari at

be getting married in the

not even looking up

a

contemptuously, “chapels tend not

ignored his snark.

“Your family.”

one else?” I

other two daughters, and their families.

a ton of other families show

meant

people who controlled cities like Rome,

they show up at your brother’s

He meant Adriano’s.

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