Page 160 of Mafia Kings: Valentino

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We’d just finished and were lying there all sweaty and spent when her phone suddenly rang.

“Oh shit, that’s him!” Cat exclaimed as she jumped up to answer the phone.

I groaned inwardly.

Playtime was over.

Back to the real fuckin’ world.

“Hello? Um… no, not yet… okay…” Cat looked at me apologetically as she handed me the phone. “He says he wants to talk to you.”

I took it from her. “Yeah?”

“I told you to be ready to go in two hours,”Paolo said, half nervously, half pissed.

I clenched my jaw.

I already had Don Vicari and Rocco telling me toDance, little monkey –

I didn’t need a fuckin’ driver chewing me out, too.

Especially one who had already turned traitor on his boss.

“I’ll jump in the shower and be ready in five minutes,” I said coldly.

“Alright, well, hurry it up.”

“Make that ten,” I snarled.

“Look, man – if the Don gets suspicious, it’s BOTH of our dicks on the chopping board.”

I noticed he wasn’t calling mebossanymore.

Now it wasLook, man.

“Yeah, yeah,” I grumbled. “Just wait in the lobby.”

“I’ll be outside in the car,”he said

His refusal to follow my orders irked me even more.

“What about Caterina?”

“She can stay in the hotel tonight.”

“Am I going to see her again?”

I was nervous that this was the last time, but it came out as irritation with Paolo.

“When I find out where you’re working tomorrow with Rocco, I’ll tell her. She can meet you there.”

Sweet relief flooded through me.

But now there was another problem.

“How am I supposed to get away from Rocco?” I asked.

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