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.


that’s how we got to see Messina, on the northeastern tip of Sicily… and Augusta… and Santa

were like two kids in

visited every museum, saw every famous landmark, and

freedom – and they enjoyed every

I was

every town we visited, I got

enough for

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

As the wedding approached.

didn’t ask her what was wrong because

held each other

ignore the


Isabella where we

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

futzing over the reception menu, no drama about the wedding

surprised when Isabella said, “At the chapel outside

“…Resuttano?”

never heard

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

– the 91-year-old who kept calling

we’re getting married?” I asked

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

no,

still double-checked with

we’ll be getting married

even looking up from his veal

not a

contemptuously, “chapels tend not to

his

“Your family.”

else?” I

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

just… normally, a ton of other families show

meant the Cosa

who controlled cities like Rome, Milan, and

smirked. “Did they show up at your brother’s wedding? Not Don Rosolini’s – the other

He meant Adriano’s.

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