Page 78 of Mafia Kings: Dario

“Nothing!” Cat yelped at the same time, though not as loud as me.

Valentino raised one eyebrow as he looked back and forth between me and Cat.

Then he glanced down at the counter in front of me.

I looked down to see what he was looking at –

And saw the long tube of dough.

I hastily pounded it with one fist and smashed it all together.

“Just making bread! Ha ha!” I said, forcing a laugh that made me sound crazy.

Valentino frowned at how strange I was acting, then jerked his head back towards the hallway. “Dario wants to see you.”

I suddenly felt like I couldn’t breathe.

I looked around at Cat in a panic –

And her hand flew up to her mouth in shock.

“W-w-why?” I stuttered.

“Who knows,” Valentino said as he strolled past me and went over to Cat.

“Where is he?” I asked, then added hopefully, “His study?”

“No, his bedroom,” he said as he took a piece of strawberry off the cutting board, threw it in the air, and caught it in his mouth.

I was nearly out of my mind with panic.

I looked over at Cat in desperation –

And her mouth dropped open in the biggest grin I’ve ever seen, like she was about to cheer.

She immediately went back to normal (to hide her excitement) when Valentino finished eating his strawberry.

Thenshe suddenly looked shocked.

She glared at Valentino like,What the hell are you DOING?!

I couldn’t see because he was standing right next to her, but I would have bet money that his hand was on her ass.

He just ignored her like nothing unusual was going on.

“Well?” he asked as he looked at me.

“W-well what?”

Cat made a littleeep!noise and grasped the edge of the counter.

I was betting Valentino’s hand had traveled somewhere else…

But hestilldidn’t let on that anything was amiss.

“Shouldn’t you go?” he asked, pointing at the door with his free hand.

God only knows what he was doing to Cat with the other one.

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