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

like two kids in

saw every famous landmark, and basked

they were truly experiencing freedom – and they enjoyed

I was experiencing freedom,

town we visited, I got

enough for

tell she was having a harder

As the wedding approached.

ask her what was

just held each other and made

tried to ignore the disaster


asked Isabella where

a cathedral in Palermo, so Don Vicari could show off

futzing over the reception menu, no drama about the wedding dress – but I figured he had

Isabella said, “At the

“…Resuttano?”

never heard of

There’s a chapel on the outskirts of the village. Papa and Mama got

the 91-year-old who kept calling me

we’re getting married?” I asked in

Rocco, Abriana, and Marcella all got married there. Why – did you want something bigger?” she

no, that’s

with

understand we’ll be getting married in

even looking up

a big

contemptuously, “chapels tend

ignored his

“Your family.”

one else?” I asked

other two daughters, and their families. Why, were

normally, a ton of other families

‘families,’ I meant the Cosa

people who controlled cities like Rome, Milan, and

up at your brother’s wedding? Not Don

He meant Adriano’s.

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