All Chapters of I Skimmed My Bestie’s Mafia Seduction Fund: Chapter 1 - Chapter 10

"Aria, do you know what a Donna is?"Seraphina tossed the tablet in front of me.On the screen was a photo of Cassandra playing Chopin at a family charity gala. White dress, black piano. The old lady sat in the front row, smiling so wide her wrinkles bloomed like a flower."The de Santis family has only cared about one thing for three hundred years: Tradition." Her nails tapped the desk. "Whoever wins the old lady's heart becomes the next Donna, the supreme matriarch.""You're pregnant," I said."The kid will be born a de Santis. Will it take my last name?" She sneered. "Last week, the old lady said in front of seven elders—'If Seraphina doesn't shape up, send her back to where she came from.'"I gasped."Cassandra is a Viti daughter. Learned piano at six, entered the conservatory at twelve, speaks Italian better than the Pope." Seraphina turned pale. "And me? I cross myself wrong at Holy Name mass."She grabbed my hands. Her eyes were genuinely red."She's playing the piano at next we

I sat at home with that one-million-dollar check for three days.I racked my brain and finally figured it out.To sterilize a mafia Don, there are three options.One, bribe his personal doctor to drug him.But his doc has been with him for seventeen years, and the doc's son works under him.Two, hire a hitman to snip him.But no hitman in Chicago would dare take a hit on a de Santis. Even if they did, they’d snitch to him immediately.Three, I do it myself.I would die.All three paths led to the same destination: my death.What Seraphina really wanted wasn't Caspian's sterilization.It was for him to never touch another woman.That was easy.I stashed $900,000 into my piggy bank and kept $100,000.Then I hit up a modeling agency in North City.The male model was Luca, twenty-four, 6'3", jawline sharp enough to cut glass.I handed him a hundred grand in cash and a photo of Caspian."Follow him. Make him notice you.""That's it?""That's it."I made sure to warn him: "No touching. No cr

"Collusion?" I took a step forward. "Cassandra, this is your third accusation against Seraphina. First, you said she hired a hitman. It was a wax figure. Second, you said she poisoned you. It was a $9.99 prank spray. Now we're on number three."I looked at her."Where's the proof?"Cassandra's face flushed red. "The proof is kneeling right there on the floor!""He's kneeling because you beat him," I said. "Luca, give your phone to the Don. Not her. The Don."Luca scrambled over. He held his cracked phone up with both hands."Boss, I didn't delete anything." His voice shook. "Photos, contacts, banking apps, emails. The password is my sister's birthday, 0311. If you find one single text, one word, one call between me and Seraphina... I'll jump into Lake Michigan tonight."The bodyguard took the phone, plugged it in, and cast the screen directly to the hospital room's TV.Scrolled to the bottom of the contacts. No Seraphina.Scrolled to the bottom of the call log. Nothing.There was only

"You want to hand the life of the future Mafia heir over to a bunch of blue-collar workers?"Seraphina sat on the bed, hands on her belly, eyes wide."Not just blue-collar." I counted on my fingers. "My Uncle Sal has been a butcher in Little Italy for fourteen years. Swings a cleaver better than a Sicilian hitman. My cousin Vinny is an ex-Marine, now head of security at a South Side mob casino. My Uncle Frankie is a union enforcer—can carry 200 pounds of contraband up five flights of stairs by himself. And my baby cousin? Last month he put a Ukrainian shooter in the ICU at an underground fight club.""...What exactly does your family do?""We're poor," I said. "And there's a lot of us."That million-dollar check sat in my bag all night. Honestly, I was itching to take a cut. By my usual rules, at least 900k of that belonged in my pocket.But not this time. This was my godson.The day Seraphina married into the de Santis family, her pre-nup properties and trusts hit the tens of milli

"Bought off for 500k?!"Nonna clutched her chest, nearly having a heart attack on the spot.The nurse curled into a ball, begging for her life.Seraphina immediately took the real baby from my arms.She swayed on her feet and collapsed perfectly against Caspian, her delicate face pressing into his violently heaving chest."Caspian, she's so evil!" Seraphina cried, looking devastatingly beautiful in her tears. "She knows you can't have another child. She wanted to end your bloodline completely! If it wasn't for Aria today, our baby would have been disposed of without a trace!"Flawless manipulation.Her words struck the Don right where it hurt the most.He wrapped his arms tightly around his fragile wife and child."Cassandra." Caspian ground the name through his teeth, every letter dripping with venom. "Since she loves wiping out bloodlines so much, I'll make sure she wishes she was dead."Nonna gasped for air, a bloodthirsty gleam flashing in her cloudy eyes."At all costs! Destroy Ca