Page 41 of Mob Princess

Lina

Shane

When’s the wedding?

Me

Feck off

Shane

So next week. Good thing I took my tux to the dry cleaners right after Finn’s wedding. Can I come to the cake tasting?

I send him the middle finger emoji. He’s not wrong per se… Lina and I should survive at least a second date before we jump into ring shopping. She might be from two mob families and already embroiled in this life, but she isn’t embroiled in mine. Yet. I haven’t allowed any woman to get as close as I have Lina. She’s seen emotions I’ve either never had before or never been willing to share. If I didn’t think we have a genuine future together, I wouldn’t have gotten into a text conversation that’s been going on for nearly a month. We definitely wouldn’t be here with her sitting on my dick. I’m rocking my hips just enough to stay hard, but it won’t last much longer.

Me

If the others ask don’t lie but don’t volunteer it either. I don’t want secrets among us but it’s still early. We need to see if we’re as compatible as I think we are and we have to navigate our families.

Shane

You know ours will accept her. No one picks their relatives. If we did we wouldn’t be O’Rourkes that’s for fecking sure.

Me

I know. But we have shite to resolve with Ewan that won’t be in his favor. We have business to do with Jean-Peter. She’s trapped in the middle figuratively. I don’t want her there literally when this turns violent.

Neither of us will say anything more explicit than that. We all text one another, but it isn’t through the built-in app. It’s not one anyone can get in an app store. I have a software designer connection. What Finn or I can’t do, she can. Her dad’s my dad’s best friend, besides my uncles. They’ve known each other since preschool. Apparently, my dad liked to eat dirt.

Shane

When should we expect Ewan?

Me

Soon. Not in person. At least not yet. But a bodyguard Lina didn’t agree to saw us together. He came banging on her hotel door wanting to talk to her. She refused to even open the door. She called out to him from the bedroom and texted him. He said her brother already knows.

Shane

Are they close?

Me

I don’t think so. At least not by the Four Families’ standard.

One of the Mancinelli wives coined the term, and it’s gotten around. Probably at one of the twenty million weddings we’ve been to in the past four years. Fourteen to be exact.

Shane

Posturing?

Me

Maybe. Probably. I think he must care for real b/c she hasn’t told me otherwise. But I doubt they’re hanging out and watching movies together on Fri nights.

Shane

Maybe not. I need to get a life now that you’ll be watching movies with your fiancée. But he’ll use it as the perfect excuse to make him look like his balls dropped. We might have let him take credit for fixing Rowan’s fuck-up. But he’s not his dad. He might want others to think he has brass balls, but he’s got little more than a micro penis. That means a Napoleon complex. He’ll want us to fear him.

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