Page 295 of Mafia Kings: Valentino

“I… okay,” I said, stunned, as I shook Rachel’s hand.

“Crazy shit, right?” Lucia chimed in.

Niccolo glared at her. “Could you not curse so much?”

“Could you fuck off?” Lucia replied sweetly.

Niccolo just grumbled to himself and looked away, shaking his head.

“If you’re done with the introductions,” Don Vicari said loudly, “we should make our way to the chapel. My daughter and other members of my family will be arriving there shortly.”

“Let’s go,” Dario said, then hugged me around the shoulders with one arm as we all made our way to the cars.

I walked to the SUV, stunned.

It looked like everybody in my family got a fucking happy ending totheirstories –

Exceptme.

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After I showered and did my hair, I got dressed.

Of all the decisions I made that morning, you would think the one to go crash a mafia wedding would be the hardest.

But no –

I agonized over the dress.

When Valentino saw me, I wanted to look as beautiful as possible.

I kept going back and forth between a blue one and a white one –

Until I realized,I can’t wear white!

I don’t want to upstage the bride on her wedding day.

As soon as the thought crossed my mind, I burst out laughing hysterically.

But I still went with the blue.

I got to the chapel a quarter before 11.

I’d been planning on earlier, but I’d stalled and procrastinated…

Mostly because I knew this was the most insane thing I’d ever done in my life.

I think part of me was hoping everybody would already be there and it would be impossible to go forward with my plan.

I watched the chapel like a hawk the entire time I approached it –

But no one was there.

No flower vans, no cars, nothing.

If therehadbeen anyone there, I would have backed out.

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