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

Mafia Kings: Valentino: Chapter 113

The priest started reading Bible verses. All about God making man in his image, then creating woman…

There was other stuff, but I tuned it out.

All I could think about was Cat and how I could’ve married her back home.

About how she knew I’d said ‘no’ when Dario offered me a chance…

And how that must have broken her heart.

But she still stuck by me.

She risked everything to come to Sicily to be with me.

She’d begged me, over and over, to run away with her –

But I’d always said ‘no.’

Why?

Because I had to do it ‘for the family.’

We didn’t know if Massimo and Lars were alive or dead.

And if Roberto didn’t come through, we’d be too broke to fight Fausto.

But Massimo was alive. He was right behind me.

Lars was alive, too.

And Roberto had gotten the money.

In short, all the reasons Niccolo had arranged this marriage –

them

yet I was still going through with

Massimo, Lars, and Roberto all got

Not me.

Niccolo had decided that

I fucking hated him

But…

stood there listening to the

it wasn’t

Not really.

he’d arranged it

kept blaming him because I didn’t want to take

the chance to marry

the chance to run

to

said, I love her, and I want to be with her, and I’m not marrying

But I didn’t.

Because…

In the end…

the piece of shit in

Vicari, I’d stood up to the fucker when he was an asshole

there was an unspoken

for his woman is a

And yet…

stood up for

hadn’t stood up for the woman I

that I loved her

But I’d known.

I’d always known.

was just like Cat had

treated her like a dirty little secret