Page 9 of The Merciless King

“Welcome to the team,” Connor says, reaching out his hand and shaking it.

“Let’s get to work,” Mack says.










CHAPTER TWO

GIANNA

Well, that was an out of the blue phone call. Mia Mancini–now Mia Barrett—just phoned me to invite me out for a drink.

Surely she can’t be missing this world of crime and gangsters.

More than one person thinks she’s a traitor—you never leave the mafia, so everyone says.

My father. That’s who says it. Frank “The Fire” Baldassare.

The don.

So yes, I’m going to catch up with Mia and find out about her new life. I’m more than curious. We were, after all, both mafia princesses in the New York area growing up.

Her father let her fly the nest and live a normal life. I think because her mother died when she was younger, and he felt sympathetic.

It backfired on him.

She met Connor, and the billionaire proposed. The Mancini boss did not contest it, but he did lose his life at their wedding. The entire family did.

Except Mia.

The Mancini crime family has now been wiped out. Mine benefited from it—so Papa and Dante, my brother, say. I don’t get told any more than that. It’s the way it is in the Italian mafia.

So I’m curious. What does Mia want?

She now lives a cushy life free of the mafia and is married to her dream man. How many nights have I imagined some dashing prince with a machete coming to rescue me and take me away?

Too damn many.

He doesn’t even have to be dashing, but I mean, if I’m going to be kidnapped from my glass tower, it would be nice if he was good looking.