Chapter 9
Tony
“Everything okay?” Nico asks when I step into his office the next day. “Did Junior piss all over the girl?”
I plop down in a chair in the corner and fold one ankle over my knee. “Yeah. Pretty much.”
Nico gives me a measuring look. “You talk him down?”
“Maybe.” My foot jiggles on my knee.
Nico’s lip curls. “Did he give any indication how long he’s gonna stay here?”
Nico hates Junior’s visits to Vegas. The Bellissimo is Nico’s operation. Vegas is his town. When Junior comes, he throws his weight around and acts like a big man, but really, what Nico’s created here is a thousand times bigger, better and more legal than anything Junior has going in the windy city.
“No idea. Hopefully not until she starts playing again.”
“Fanculo,” Nico curses. “That would kill us all. Ho
