Mafia Lion’s Plus Size Obsession (Company 417 Shifters, #43)

Epilogue

Eleven Months Later

Isabella

The last spank lands, and I start crying as I lay there over Vittorio’s lap.

In two more months, the spankings will be over.

Yeah.

Ten spanks a day. Eight months. All the way up to the wedding.

That’s the punishment that came along with my engagement ring when I was released from the hospital with a brace on my ankle and an inhaler to deal with the smoke inhalation. I’m getting married and I’m also getting spanked.

And he isn’t kidding, I can promise you that! I wanted to giggle the first time because of relief and happiness and the shock of discovering his shifter nature. You better belief I don’t laugh now, and I can promise you that my man doesn’t show mercy!

I won’t get spanked on my wedding night. It’s then that I’ll have finished my punishment for almost getting myself killed.

My butt hurts.

My butt always hurts!

Is it weird to love it?

After the fire, Vittorio arranges a hiatus and spends six months working with his father to dismantle the criminal enterprise so that my father can take it over piece by piece. It’s not completely done yet but everything is in process and the process will work itself out now. It really took a man…uh, a lion…willing to do it.

Well, Daddy is the boss now, sort of. Vittorio worked it out for the Leoni’s to take over all of the legitimate businesses and to hand off to my father all the illegitimate enterprises. Daddy pays an ungodly amount of money to Mr. Leoni with each division that gets turned over, and Mr. Leoni immediately puts it into real businesses. So now, Vittorio isn’t a mobster anymore.

And I’m not going to be a mob wife.

But wow. I’m going to be the wife of a lion! Vittorio tells me if we have a baby, there’s a fifty-fifty chance the baby will be a shifter. He’ll know right away but the baby won’t shift until sometime during puberty. Now that I know, it can be crazy! I’ve seen everyone in his family nude because I’ll go out with them and they’ll get undressed to shift.

And they don’t think of nudity as, well, as nudity. Just like a lion or a wolf walking around without clothes on isn’t salacious or naughty. It’s strange to think that all these years there’s been a family of lion shifters right under my nose!

But mostly, they’re Italians.

Yeah, I know that sounds weird but I have them over for Sunday gravy and not for roast haunch of wildebeest or ibex or whatever lions eat. I have them over for Sunday gravy or Mrs. Leoni has me over for peppers or polpettone .

Okay. I’m not crying anymore. I lift myself up off Vittorio and roll my watery eyes at him. “So, you feel like a tough guy now?”

He chuckles and says, “I can add another ten spanks if you want.”

I squeal and kiss him. “Nope. Ten works.”

And it does.

Hell, everything about this relationship works. I don’t know how life worked out like this for me but you better believe I’m not complaining. This is perfect, really. I never expected to be happy, I don’t think. I expect to have a lift that’s good enough, not a life that’s joyous.

But I am happy.

And I know as long as I have my fireman lion, I’ll always be happy.

Did you enjoy reading Mafia Lion's Plus Size Obsession ? I hope so. I really enjoy writing about the Company 417 firemen shifters. You already know that if you’ve read any of the other books I’ve written. I’m definitely a shifter-loving girl. I don’t just have book boyfriends. I have a menagerie full of them! Bears, wolves, lions, tigers, and those giant majestic dragons!

I loved writing about Vittorio. I think any girl can go for a sexy fireman, of course. I love also that he’s a mafia guy. I mean, a shifter and a fireman and a bad boy… Sign me up, please! I love how he’s determined to live a life of legitimacy but knows he’ll be loyal to his family. I love that side of him.

And, of course, I love how he loves Izzy! I love that she gets to be herself and not just a piece of mafia window dressing but there’s still no question at all about who’s in charge! Izzy got herself a sexy man, an incredible fireman, and a strong and powerful shifter. I have a feeling that she’s going to always take care of him, even if she has to come up with things she has to help him with!

Isabella and Vittorio are well on their way to a wonderful life, aren’t they? I love the two of them together.

How about you? What did you like about the characters?

Naturally, I fell in love with Vittorio while I wrote the book. That isn’t going to surprise any of you out there who’ve read my other Company 417 books. I fall in love with every sexy shifter leading man I write! I can’t help it and I always imagine I’m the girl, too. I guess I’m just hopeless when it comes to shifters! I kind of like bad boys, too, and it’s hard to be more of a bad boy than a mafia man!

Anyway, I really hope you enjoyed reading about Izzy and her lion shifter lover. These two have a really sweet and sexy happily ever after in their future, don’t they?

I’ll tell you one thing right now. I could go for that kind of happily ever after!

If you enjoyed this story, then I think you’ll love the next tale of paranormal romance in the Company 417 Fireman Shifters series.

Annie Crane doesn’t really want to change the whole world but just her part in it. She’s studied hard and now that she’s graduated, she has her dream job at a research zoo hidden away in plain sight in the middle of the city. There, she’ll work on big cat reproduction to replenish endangered populations throughout the world.

She’s worked very hard and the zoo is thrilled to have her, especially after her compelling research as a student. They paid for her travel to the city, put her up in a nice hotel, and within a few weeks, she’ll have a nice apartment in the city.

But on her first night in town, she finds herself enjoying the sexiest fireman imaginable!

He’s tall and muscular.

He’s older than her.

He’s sexy as can be.

In fact, Benjamin Castle is everything she’s ever wanted in a man.

Even if he’s the biggest grump around!

What Annie doesn’t know, though, is that Benjamin Castle is far more than he seems. He’s particularly interested in her work because he’s not just a fireman. He’s a tiger shifter from fire Company 417!