Mafia Kings: Valentino: Chapter 102

After the chapel, I ran back to my room at the bed and breakfast. I sobbed openly in the streets.

People looked at me in concern as I passed, but I hid my face and ignored them.

As soon as I was back in my room, I texted Alessandra.

I did it. It’s over.

She immediately called, and we cried together.

I told her everything Valentino had said –

Including the part about Isabella.

“She’s GAY?!” Alessandra gasped.

“Yes.”

“Maybe that’s grounds for stopping the wedding!”

I thought about how nice Isabella had been when I met her in Ortigia…

And realized that if she was hiding it from her family, there was probably a damn good reason.

“Would she be in danger from her father if he knew?” I asked.

Alessandra paused. “…yes. She probably would.”

I remembered what Valentino had said about Don Vicari.

Her father’s a fucking psychopath, and yesterday I saw what he did to somebody who crossed him. It wasn’t pretty. In fact, it was pretty fucking horrible.

“No,” I murmured. “Forget about it. Besides, it’s over.”

“Are you going to be okay?”

“…yes.”

I paused.

“No. I don’t know,” I whispered.

And it was true.

I had no idea if I would ever be alright again.

It sure as hell didn’t feel like it.

told Valentino, I have to start loving

didn’t feel like I was loving

like there was anything

and soul back in that

…with him.

noon,” Alessandra told me. “Do you want me to come find

she’d almost said ‘after

glad she

unsaid – felt like a needle through my

I could bear to

Rosolini or Niccolo to

don’t care

I do. I don’t want to get you in trouble

“I almost want to help you burn down the chapel, or – or create

kind of

are you

I told her,

“YOU DIDN’T!”

“I did.”

“OH MY GOD!”

count. Them getting married,

wish that were the case.” Then she joked, “Well… I guess a part of you will be

“My ass-print on the

I began to giggle.

So did she –

laughed until we


would call her after I left Sicily. Maybe we could meet

I didn’t say was that I was afraid it would

Not for me.

thought about leaving Resuttano immediately – getting a taxi to Catania and flying out that

But I couldn’t.

was exhausted. Utterly

what to do – where to go – paralyzed

the back of my

some disaster would

the wedding wouldn’t

Valentino would finally come for

I wasn’t physically nearby, he wouldn’t be able to find

Not yet.

knew it was all just

I didn’t have anything else to

Alessandra that girls like us didn’t get fairytale

She did, though.

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