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2026-07-01 06:59:00Lenny's Pov
Luca almost fell through the door.He caught the frame with one hand and stayed upright but only just. His jacket was torn at the left shoulder. His lip was split and bleeding down his chin, he had his right arm pressed against his side in the way people held themselves when something underneath hurt badly."Inside," Vincenzo said immediately, taking his arm.Luca came in and Vincenzo closed the door and locked it and I was already off
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DEADLY FACADE: I Became His Obsession Half The Truth
He didn't say anything in the car for the first ten minutes. I didn't either. I sat with the photograph sitting in my head, and turned it over and looked at it from every angle and waited until I had something useful to say about it before I opened my mouth. "You knew Rico," I said finally. "Before any of this. Before the investigation." He kept his eyes on the road. "Yes." "The photo in Francesca's front room." "I saw you looking at it when I came in," he said. "How long did you know him?" "Several years," he said. "He came into the family through the lower ranks. We had proximity for a while." "Proximity," I said. "You had your arm around him like he was someone you actually liked." "At the time I did," he said. "People change. Rico changed." "Into a rat." "Yes." "And you didn't know he was going to do that when you first moved in next to me." "No," he said. "I knew he was leaking information. I didn't know the full extent of his involvement with Dante yet.
DEADLY FACADE: I Became His Obsession Old Photos
Lenny's Pov Francesca's house felt like the kind of place that had absorbed decades of serious conversations and came out the other side still standing.Everything in it was practical and chosen deliberately. Nothing on the walls that didn't mean something. Books on the shelves that had clearly been read rather than arranged for display. A kitchen that had fed a great many people over a great many years and didn't pretend otherwise.I liked it immediately and I didn't fully understand why until I sat down at that table and realized it felt like a place where people were allowed to be exactly what they were.After the coffee Vincenzo excused himself to take a call outside and Francesca topped up my cup without asking, sat back down at the table across from me like she had been waiting for exactly this."Ask me what you want to ask me," she said.I looked at her. "Is he going to be okay? With the situation and the fami
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Vincenzo's Pov I called ahead the way I always did. Francesca picked up on the second ring and listened without interrupting while I told her I was coming and that I was bringing someone. There was a brief silence on her end and then she said fine and hung up, which from Francesca meant considerably more than the word itself. Lenny was quiet on the drive over. The kind she got when she was taking in information and organizing it before she said anything about it. "Who is she exactly," she asked around the twenty-minute mark. "The closest thing I have to a mother," I said. "She was my nanny from the time I was eight. Before that she worked in a different capacity for the family." "What capacity?" "She was an assassin," I said. Lenny turned her head to look at me. "Your nanny was an assassin." "Retired by the time she took the position," I said. "Mostly." "Mostly." "She taught me everything practical about staying alive," I said. "How to read a room.
DEADLY FACADE: I Became His Obsession How Deep
Lenny's Pov Luca almost fell through the door.He caught the frame with one hand and stayed upright but only just. His jacket was torn at the left shoulder. His lip was split and bleeding down his chin, he had his right arm pressed against his side in the way people held themselves when something underneath hurt badly."Inside," Vincenzo said immediately, taking his arm.Luca came in and Vincenzo closed the door and locked it and I was already off the couch and moving to the kitchen for the kit before either of them said another word.Vincenzo got Luca to the couch. Luca sat down heavily and leaned his head back against the cushions and breathed through his nose."How many," Vincenzo asked."Three," Luca said. "Dante's people. They were waiting for my car.""When?""An hour ago." He winced as Vincenzo pressed a hand carefully to his right side. "I drove here directly, took four differ
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