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Leo's Night, Part One

Author: Captain Kawriz
last update Petsa ng paglalathala: 2026-09-05 20:00:08

The count was wrong by two crates, and the argument that followed lasted less than ninety seconds before somebody pulled a gun. Leo would remember that detail longest, afterward — ninety seconds, less time than it took to microwave something forgotten in the office break room, and everything about the rest of his life had already changed shape by the time it ended.

Leo hadn't seen it coming. None of them had, except maybe Marco, who'd gone very still the moment the younger man
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  • BLOOD AND ABSOLUTION   Marco's Fuller Confession

    Marco found her on the garage steps two days later, sitting alone with a coffee gone cold in her hands, Leo asleep inside under the watch of a man Nico had posted at the door without asking permission. The morning was gray and unremarkable, the kind of day that gave nothing away about what it was about to carry."Can I sit," Marco asked, and something in his voice made her look up sharply. He looked older than she remembered from the warehouse, the lines around his eyes deeper, a man who hadn't slept properly in longer than a single bad night could account for."Depends what you're here to say.""The rest of it." He sat without waiting for a clearer invitation, his hands loose between his knees, staring at the pavement rather than at her. "Nico told you about the alley. About the shoe. I know he did, because I know what a man looks like after he's finally said something he's kept sealed for seven years, and he had that look on him yesterday.""He told me.""He didn't tell you everythi

  • BLOOD AND ABSOLUTION   What Nico Arranged

    Nico arrived at the garage eleven minutes after Mira's call, faster than should have been physically possible from the estate, and she understood, watching him get out of the car with his jaw set and his movements sharp with barely restrained fury, that he must have been driving before she'd finished the sentence explaining what happened. He hadn't bothered with a coat.His shirt was still half-untucked, the particular disarray of a man who'd been asleep four minutes before he was moving."Where are they," he said, not a greeting, his eyes already scanning the lot, the street, the shadows beyond the one working overhead light."Gone. Long gone." Mira didn't look up from Leo's ribs, finishing the wrap with hands that had gone entirely steady now that the actual work had begun. "This isn't about revenge tonight, Nico. This is about him being safe for the rest of it.""It's about both." His voice was low, controlled in the particular way that told he

  • BLOOD AND ABSOLUTION   The Warning

    Her phone rang at 3 a.m., forty minutes after she'd finally fallen into something like sleep, and Mira came awake with her heart already hammering before she'd even registered the sound clearly enough to know it was real, the room still dark, the church parking lot and everything said inside it only a few hours behind her.Leo."I'm fine," he said, before she could get a word out, the particular fast, over-bright tone he used when he was very much not fine. "I need you to not panic. I need you to just come to the garage.""Leo. What happened.""Two guys showed up an hour ago. Said they were interested in a business proposition." His voice cracked slightly on business, the word carrying weight it clearly hadn't carried in whatever conversation had actually taken place. "I told them I wasn't interested in switching sides. They didn't love that answer."Mira was already out of bed, phone wedged between shoulder and ear, pulling on clothes with ha

  • BLOOD AND ABSOLUTION   What Mira Needed

    "I need air," Mira said, and stood before she'd fully decided to, her legs unsteady beneath her in a way she hadn't expected, the church's cold stone floor suddenly feeling less solid than it had an hour ago.Nico didn't try to stop her. She registered that, distantly, as she pushed through the heavy door into the parking lot, the night air hitting her face sharp and clean after the close, candle-scented warmth of the nave, and stood there a long moment with her hands braced on the cold hood of her car, breathing in slow, deliberate pulls the way she'd once taught a hundred anxious patients to breathe, back when other people's panic had still been a problem she could solve from a safe professional distance.In. Hold. Out.She thought about the girl. Not Sofia — she couldn't hold Sofia's face yet, had no face to hold, only a name and a shoe and a piano recital nobody had ever gotten to finish watching. She thought instead about her own patient, three y

  • BLOOD AND ABSOLUTION   The Shoe

    "There's a safe in my study at the estate," Nico said, into the quiet that followed, the words coming slower now, like each one had to be excavated rather than simply spoken. "I open it once a year. Always the same night, the anniversary, though I've never told anyone that's what it marks. Inside it, there's a shoe. Pink, with a small plastic butterfly stitched to the strap. It's the only thing I've ever kept that I can't explain owning, except that some part of me understood, even that first night, that if I didn't keep something real, I'd let myself forget entirely, the way I'd already learned to forget almost everything else violence required of me."Mira's hands had gone still in her lap, the surgeon's stillness she brought to a chart she already knew wouldn't have a good ending. "You've kept it seven years.""Seven years." He nodded once, jaw tight. "I take it out. I hold it. I put it back. I've never once, in all that time, let myself believe that ritual mean

  • BLOOD AND ABSOLUTION   The Alley

    "Seven years ago—" Nico stopped. Looked away, toward the altar, the last candle there guttering low in a draft neither of them could locate the source of. "I gave an order. A man needed to disappear from a ledger before he could testify against my father. I thought it was simple. I told myself, going in, that simple was the same thing as clean."Mira didn't move. Beside her, the pew creaked faintly under his shifting weight, the only sound in the whole church besides his voice and the wind finding some old gap in the stonework outside. The stained glass above the altar had gone fully dark now, the last of the evening's borrowed light finally spent, leaving only the candles and whatever came next."Marco was the one who went. I stayed back — command, not execution, the distinction I used to believe mattered more than it actually does." His hands, folded in his lap, wouldn't stay still, fingers working against each other like he was trying to wring som

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