Page 49 of Mafia Kings: Valentino

The old bitch was trying to kill Dario –

And she’d poisoned Signor Leonardo! He hadn’t had a heart attack, after all – it was Filomena who’d killed him!

I always hated the old woman because she was a holier-than-thou busybody. I had no idea she was a murderer, too.

Anyway, Alessandra was a badass and shot the bitch dead.

Which shocked me to no end, and made me respect her as well as love her.

Alessandra’s mafia background didn’t change anything between us, though. Neither did her getting married to Don Rosolini.

She was still the same Alessandra – good-hearted and sweet.

I was her maid of honor at her wedding.

I was the first person she told when she got pregnant.

And when she married the man of her dreams?

Like I said, it gave me hope.

But then something happened with Valentino.

Something that shattered my heart into a thousand little pieces and reminded me I was just a girl who worked in the kitchen…

And not a princess anyone wanted to marry.

It reminded me that fairytale endings only happen to women like Alessandra…

And not to girls like me.

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Valentino

Honor.

Duty.

Family.

That’s what it means to be in theCosa Nostra.

At least, that’s what they all drilled into me growing up: my father… my brothers…

And my uncle, who turned out to be a fucking traitor.

‘Honor, duty, and family,’ my ass.

To be honest, though, I didn’t give being in theCosa Nostraa lot of thought.

To me, itmeant ‘Life is great.’

Party all the time…

Bang hot chicks…

And then I met Caterina, and I didn’t want to sleep with anyone else.

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