Convenient Mafia Wife: Mafia Romance Series Prequel (Syndicate Rules Book 4) by Lucy Monroe

Author:Lucy Monroe [Monroe, Lucy & Monroe, Lucy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Lucy Monroe LLC
Published: 2023-07-09T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter 11

New York City, New York

Five Families

CATALINA

Our lunch with Aria De Luca, Giulia Mancini and Zia Lora is more like a war council.

Apparently Don De Luca expects a full Sicilian wedding in three months. Three!

His mother informs us that she will be his voice in the wedding plans. As her maid of honor, Carlotta insists on me being present for everything. So, I'm glad the don isn't going to be underfoot.

If I could go without seeing him again until the day of the wedding, that would be great. My vagina disagrees, but she's a lazy twit who has spent two and half decades dormant. She doesn't get a vote now.

However, between my sister's unenthusiastic response to her engagement and the groom's lack of interest in the wedding, I can't help worrying their marriage is a disaster in the making.

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I chew on my bottom lip and watch my sister as the car eats up the miles between Long Island and Manhattan.

The last week and a half have been a whirlwind of activity.

Yesterday, Carlotta picked out her wedding gown. As much as my sister loves fashion, she reacted to picking out the dress she's going to be married in like she was choosing a flavor of ice cream. But with less excitement.

Right now, we are on our way into the city for a consultation with the catering company. We'll be meeting Aria De Luca and her daughter again. Not the don.

Zia Lora won't be able to make all the trips into the city because it's all so rushed, but she's convinced Papa to give us a car and a driver. Even with a second soldier acting as bodyguard, it is freedom unlike anything either of us have ever known.

"I'm so excited to try this tasting menu," Carlotta says with her first spark of real enthusiasm. "The head chef said I could tour the kitchens and watch different preparations."

"Does it matter how they make the food, so long as you like how it tastes?" I ask.

My sister's lovely face is flushed, her eyes fever bright. "Oh yes. I can't wait to see how they make the chilled dessert. The chef does it in individual portions with liquid nitrogen."

"That sounds dangerous." Not to mention challenging for the number of guests expected to attend.

Even with the short notice, there are nearly two-thousand people on the guest list. At least a thousand of them, or their representatives, will definitely be there.

It is not every day a don gets married. Guests are coming from all over the country and even Italy. There will be dons, or their underbosses, from all Five Families in New York and the other Cosa Nostra territories, as well as the Camorra we count as allies.

Carlotta shrugs. "It's molecular gastronomy," she says with reverence.

"I could barely get you to give an opinion about the flowers." She'd agreed that having mom's favorite white camelias included in the arrangements would be nice, though Carlotta hadn't actually shown a preference for anything herself.

"Flowers are boring.

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