Semua Bab DEADLY FACADE: I Became His Obsession : Bab 91 - Bab 97

Lenny's Pov He was out of bed before the second hit on the door. I sat up. He already had the gun from the nightstand. He looked at me once and held up one hand flat. I stayed. He crossed to the bedroom door and opened it and went into the corridor of the apartment in three steps. I heard him at the front door. The specific sound of him checking the peephole. Then his voice. Very low. Very flat. "Step back from the door." Silence from the other side. "Step back again. Now." I heard shuffling. Then a voice I didn't recognize, male, muffled through the door. "I have a message. From Dante Moretti for his brother." "Put it under the door." "It's not that kind of message." "Then you're leaving without delivering it. Make your choice in the next ten seconds." Silence. Then footsteps moving away from the door. I heard Vincenzo on his phone immediately. Two words to Luca, the corridor. Then quiet. He came back to the bedroom doorway and looked at me. "Stay he

Lenny's Pov Luca was quiet for a moment with his hands resting on either side of his cup. He seemed to be choosing his words carefully."He has walked into worse rooms than this one, with less preparation. With no Giovanni declaration behind him and no confirmed captains."I nodded slowly because I knew all of that was true. "I know that.""He has walked out of all of them.""I know that too. Knowing it and sitting here are two different things."Luca met my eyes, and something in his expression softened slightly. "Yes. They are."Shadow put his head on my knee, and I put my hand on his without looking down. His fur was warm, and his breathing was steady. The simple weight of him grounded me."Tell me something about the session. Something specific. How it actually works."Luca turned his cup on the table, and the ceramic scraped softly against the wood. He seemed to appreciate the di

Lenny's Pov The people at the door were maintenance. The maintenance men were real.They had building credentials and a work order for a smoke detector issue on the floor dated three days ago, and their tools in a bag were actual tools. Luca checked everything twice before he let them through.I stood at the kitchen entrance and watched him check both men. They were middle-aged and uncomfortable with the scrutiny, and they did not have the energy of people who had come to do anything other than fix a smoke detector. They were done in eight minutes, and Luca walked them to the elevator before coming back and closing the door.I looked at him."Real.""I know. I could tell after the first two minutes.""But it rattled you.""Yes.""That's reasonable. Given the last twelve hours."I went back to the table and sat down with my phone face up on the surface where I ha

Lenny's Pov I had not stayed in that room.The moment Luca fell asleep from the medication, I had taken the gun Vincenzo got me, left a note on the bed, and gone. I caught up with the team's location through Bressi's car, which Luca had tracked without telling me he was doing it, slipping out a side door of the building before anyone noticed.I found Vincenzo's car two blocks from the warehouse, exactly where Bressi had parked it.I went in through the same side door they had used, twenty minutes behind them.What I walked into stopped me cold in the doorway.Vincenzo and his three men were standing in the open center of the warehouse floor, surrounded. Dante stood near a side office with the relaxed posture of a man who had planned every second of this and was enjoying watching it play out."You shouldn't have come alone," Dante said to Vincenzo, gesturing slightly with one hand. "I expected more strategy from you, brother. This is almost disappointing."Vincenzo's voice was complet