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.


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

two kids

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

time, they were truly experiencing freedom –

say I was

visited, I

enough for

always happy when I first arrived – but I could tell she was having a

As the wedding approached.

what was wrong because I already

just held each other and made

ignore the disaster just


Isabella where we were going

big church. Maybe a cathedral in Palermo, so Don

– no flower orders, no futzing over the reception menu, no drama about the

was surprised when Isabella said, “At

“…Resuttano?”

never heard

miles from here. There’s a chapel on the outskirts of the village. Papa and Mama got married there. So did my Papa’s

was her great-grandmother – the 91-year-old who

where we’re getting married?” I asked in shock. “A chapel in

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

no, that’s

still double-checked with Don Vicari

getting married in the chapel outside

even looking up from

not a big

he said contemptuously, “chapels tend not to be

ignored his

“Your family.”

I asked

Rocco, my other two daughters, and their families. Why, were

just… normally, a ton of other

‘families,’ I meant the Cosa

people who controlled cities like Rome, Milan, and

your brother’s wedding?

He meant Adriano’s.

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