Episode Two
“ I ’m going to kill him. I don’t care if he’s blood. I’m going to drain every bit of that fucking Valentino blood from his body,” I yell.
“Who?” Luca asks while lifting a questioning brow.
“Fucking Dante.” I turn the screen of my phone around, showing my brother the red dot flashing over the top of a goddamn sexual health clinic.
“What am I looking at?”
“That’s Dante’s car. And that.” I point to the spot on the map. “Is a fucking sexual health clinic,” I grit out between clenched teeth.
Luca fucking laughs. Literally fucking laughs. “Man, you really need to chill the fuck out,” he says.
“Third time’s a charm, you know,” I deadpan.
“Third time for what?”
“The third bullet you take. Don’t make me shoot your ass.”
“You’re not shooting me and you’re not killing Dante,” he groans.
“You sure about that?”
“Yep.” He picks up his own phone, dialing a number before putting it on speaker.
“Luc, I’m busy,” Romeo’s voice comes through the other line a few seconds later.
“You’re about to be busier,” Luca tells him.
“Why?” Romeo asks.
“Your son is at a sexual health clinic, and Theo is threatening to drain his body of blood,” Luca relays.
“First of all, Dante isn’t stupid enough to need a health clinic. Second, Theo, don’t touch my fucking kid,” Romeo says.
“Well, if you kept your kid’s dick in his pants and away from my kid , I wouldn’t have to kill him,” I tell my brother. Technically, Josie isn’t my daughter, but I signed the papers to adopt her, which makes her mine all the same.
“Fucking hell, have you asked him why he’s there?” Romeo huffs into the phone.
“Doing it now,” I tell him as I type out a message to my nephew.
Me:
WHY THE FUCK ARE YOU AT A SEXUAL HEALTH CLINIC, DANTE???
I see the read notification almost immediately but the fucker doesn’t reply.
“Wait. It’s not him,” Romeo says. “I just tracked his phone. Dante is at school.”
“Where’s Aurora?” Luca asks, and I freeze. My niece, my brother Matteo’s daughter, is the family’s wild card.
“Not her either. She’s at school too,” Romeo is quick to add. “Give me a sec. I’m tracking all the offspring now.”
Thank fuck it’s not Aurora. That is a level of crazy that really doesn’t need to be breeding anytime soon. I run a hand through my hair. These kids are going to send me fucking gray.
“Fuck,” Romeo curses under his breath.
“What?” Now I’m sitting straighter in my office chair.
“Luc, call Orlando. He’s the one at the clinic. Did you not tell your kid to wrap it up?” Romeo laughs.
“Not fucking funny.” Luca swipes up his phone from the table and storms out of my office. Guess no one is dying today then. At least not by my hands.
I send another message to Dante.
Me:
I know it’s Orlando and so does Zio Luca. You might want to pass that on.
Dante:
Will do.
Then the dumbass sends me a fucking selfie of him and Josie. They’re in the school cafeteria, his arm around her shoulder while she’s looking at him like he’s hung the damn moon. Asshole.
I get up and round my desk as the door to my office opens, and my wife walks in. “Close and lock it,” I tell her.
Maddie pauses and then smirks. “Tough morning?” she asks, already clicking the lock into place.
“You could say that. I thought we were about to become grandparents,” I groan as I pull her body against mine.
“What?”
“I tracked Dante’s car to a sexual health clinic,” I explain as my lips trail up the side of her neck. “Bambolina, fuck, you smell good. So good I need a taste.”
“Why are you tracking Dante’s car?” Maddie asks.
“Because he’s driving our daughter around. I need to know where he’s taking her.” I step backwards, leading Maddie over to my desk. Before picking her up and sitting her on the pile of papers sprawled out across the top. Then I lower myself onto my chair in front of her.
“You need to let them be, Theo.”
“What I need is to lick your pussy until I forget that the next generation is going to be leading this family one day. God help the fucking world when that happens.” I lift her dress up her thighs until I see it. My own little slice of heaven on earth. My wife’s pussy. “No panties?” I ask Maddie.
“I was hoping you weren’t busy,” she says.
“For you, I’m never fucking busy. I will stop whatever I’m doing to pleasure you, bambolina. Always.” The tips of my fingers run up the middle of her lips. “So wet for me already.”
“Mhmm.” Maddie tips her head back and her chest arches forward, her breasts threatening to pop the buttons that run down the front of her dress.
I lower my face, gliding my tongue from the bottom to the top of her core, circling her clit when I reach it. Then I push two fingers into her pussy, close my mouth around her clit, and suck and lick.
Maddie’s hands grab at my head, holding me against her. “Oh shit, Theo,” she moans. “I was… I was thinking…”
I peer up at her. I don’t stop what I’m doing. I can’t stop once I start. I always need more. There hasn’t been a day that’s gone by that I haven’t wanted my wife. I fall in love with her more and more as time goes on. I didn’t think it was possible to love anyone the way I love Maddie and our children.
“I… oh god.” Her thighs tighten around me. “I was thinking we could go on a trip. Together. Just the two of us…”
“Mhmm,” I mumble into her pussy. If she’s coherent enough to be thinking anything, then I’m not doing my job. Increasing my efforts, I pump my fingers faster, harder, as I alternate between sucking and licking her clit.
“Shit.” Maddie’s body stiffens. Her orgasm hits her hard and I smile into her. That’s what I wanted. I continue to lick her until she comes down from her high.
Maddie jumps off the desk and straddles my lap while her arms wrap around my neck. “I love you,” she sighs.
“I love you too,” I tell her.
“I bought tickets to the Maldives. We’re leaving in three days.” She smiles at me.
“Three days? Maddie, that’s not enough…”
She cuts me off by placing a finger to my lips. “Theo, you are the Don of the Valentino family, New York’s biggest crime syndicate. Do not try to tell me you can’t click your fingers and have your minions take care of everything here for a week. It’s just a week. In the Maldives. With your wife. You and me, and no one else.”
“It’s really not a good time for me to be leaving the city,” I tell her.
Maddie pushes off my lap, stands, and walks around to the other side of my desk. “Well, I’ll be going. I hope you’ll join me. I just bought a bunch of new bikinis for the trip. It’d be a shame if you missed seeing me in them.” She smirks.
“I’ll make it happen,” I grunt.
“See? I knew you could.” She walks back around and kisses my cheek. “I love you. I can’t wait to spend a whole week, uninterrupted, with my husband,” she says.
“There is no one else I’d rather spend my time with,” I tell her honestly. Except maybe our children. My family is the most important thing to me.
When Maddie leaves, I pick up my phone and call Luca.
“Boss?” he answers.
“Orlando still alive?” I ask him.
“Yep, it’s handled. He was helping a friend,” Luca says. “What do you need?”
“Maddie booked us a trip to the Maldives,” I tell him. “I’m going to be gone for a week.”
“Okay. That’s cool. I’m sure we can all keep the wheels turning in your absence,” he says.
“Yeah. I gotta go. Talk later.” I cut the call as the thought hits me.
Josie. I am not leaving a sixteen-year-old here alone without parental supervision. Especially when Dante continues to break through every fucking security protocol I have in place to sneak into her room. That kid is too smart for his own good. Then again, with parents like his, it’s really no surprise.
I call Pops. If anyone can keep Dante’s dick away from my daughter for a week, it’s my dad. “Theo, what’s up?” he asks.
“Maddie booked us a trip. I have to go out of town for a week. Can Josie stay with you and Ma while we’re gone?”
“I’m sure your mother will be thrilled to have her. Send her over,” he says.
“Thanks, Pops. I owe you one,” I tell him.
“She’s our granddaughter, Theo. She’s welcome here anytime.”
There’s a light knock on my door and then my niece walks in. “Pops, I gotta go. Talk to you later.” I hang up and set the phone down. “Tilly, everything okay?” It’s not like her to just pop into my office for a visit.
“Uh-huh, I just wanted to see my favorite uncle.” She smiles at me.
“Favorite, huh?” I laugh. Yeah, the kid definitely wants something.
“Yep.” Tilly leans down and kisses my cheek. “I was thinking of making a big purchase and I wanted your opinion.”
“Okay. What are you buying?”
“A house.” She smiles at me with excitement sparkling in her eyes.
“A house? Didn’t you just move in with that boyfriend of yours?” I ask her, then add hopefully, “Come to your senses already and dump his ass?”
My niece is dating the Don of the Gambino family. It’s a relationship my brothers and I aren’t too thrilled about.
“No. I want to buy a house for us. Antonio and me. His house is full of… ghosts,” she says.
“Okay. So, what do you need my help with?”
“Will you come and look at some properties with me? I need to know if they’re a good fit for you know… a Don. Security wise and all that. Figured you were the best person to ask.”
“Of course, send me the details and I’ll be there,” I tell her.
“Thanks, Zio Theo. You’re the best.” She throws her arms around my neck, placing another kiss on my cheek before pivoting on her heel to leave.
“Tilly?” I call out after her, and she stops. “Whose money are we spending on this house? Yours or his ?”
Tilly’s smile widens. “Antonio’s,” she says. “He’d have a fit if I bought anything with my own money. Sometimes I think he forgets I’m just as well off as he is. He insists on paying for everything.”
As he fucking should. I don’t say that aloud. I just nod, watching my niece walk out the door before she disappears down the hallway.