Mafia Kings: Valentino: Dark Mafia Romance Series #6 by Olivia Thorn

Mafia Kings: Valentino: Chapter 94

I went back to the kitchen and got an old wine bottle filled with cold water. It was a hot summer’s day, and I didn’t want to walk ten miles round trip without something to drink.

I ambled around the property for almost an hour, trying to make it look like I was lost in thought.

The point was to see if any of the foot soldiers were watching.

None of them paid me the slightest attention, so I headed for the ruins Ludavica had pointed out.

It was an old farmhouse made of stone, long since abandoned and caved in. Vines had covered the walls, and birds nested in what was left of the wooden rafters.

In the distance, Don Vicari’s compound looked like a dollhouse.

I waited on the opposite side of the ruins, waiting to see if someone would come after me –

But no one did.

So I kept walking.

I ambled through fields of grain and over hills until I reached a hilltop, just like Ludavica had said.

a tiny village. Maybe

mile from the village, was a tiny chapel. I could tell by the cross

what I

my heart beat faster and

felt like I was getting close to

IF she shows up.

of a praying man, but I prayed to

finally reached the chapel. It stood alone in a field, with an ancient graveyard off to the side filled with weathered

with a cross on the top and a small bell tower

were all wood – dark,

the main door. I walked up and tugged at the

of God out in the middle of nowhere; maybe

glass window of Christ on the cross.

the glass, turning everything in the

tapestries of the stations of the cross. Other than those and a few small statues of saints, there wasn’t

were polished wood. Ten rows of

of a short, raised platform with steps leading up

was a table with dozens of small candles. After a thousand people lighting and praying