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.


the northeastern tip of Sicily… and Augusta… and Santa

like two kids in

saw every famous landmark, and basked in the sunshine in

were truly experiencing freedom – and

I was experiencing

town we visited, I

enough for

always happy when I first arrived – but I could tell she was having a harder and harder time as the

As the wedding approached.

what was wrong because I already

just held each other and

ignore the disaster just over the


I asked Isabella where we were going to be

big church. Maybe a cathedral in Palermo, so Don Vicari could show off how rich and powerful he

flower orders, no futzing over the reception menu, no drama about the wedding dress – but I

Isabella said,

“…Resuttano?”

heard

a chapel on the outskirts of the village. Papa and Mama got married there. So did my

her great-grandmother – the 91-year-old who kept calling me ‘good

married?” I asked in shock. “A chapel in

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

no, that’s

with Don Vicari at

be getting married in the chapel outside

said, not even looking

not a big

tend not

his snark. “Who’s

“Your family.”

else?” I

gesturing to his grandmother. “Plus Rocco, my other two daughters, and their families.

a ton of other families show

‘families,’ I meant

controlled cities like

smirked. “Did they show up at your brother’s wedding?

He meant Adriano’s.

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