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Strange Neighbor
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2026-06-13 11:45:21
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DEADLY FACADE: I Became His Obsession Watching
David's Pov She didn't run. That was the first thing I registered when I pulled up the feed. Most people with working self-preservation instincts would have been out of the building within the hour. I checked the timestamp. She found the holster at 2:14. At 7:58 she was still on my couch with Shadow across her lap and a book she had stopped reading somewhere around 2:15, judging by the fact that she hadn't turned a single page. She sat with it, processed it quietly, and stayed. I stood in my kitchen and thought about that longer than I should have. This had started simply. Rico Gaines was paranoid and small. Paranoid men had routines they couldn't break no matter how careful they thought they were being. Rico's routine was Lenny. Even in hiding, from whatever hole he'd crawled into, he had been watching her. I had confirmed that in the first week of surveillance. Which made getting close to Lenny the cleanest possible route to drawing him out. I pulled up her feed n
DEADLY FACADE: I Became His Obsession Perfect Neighbor
Lenny's PovShadow was already at the door when I knocked.I could hear him on the other side, that soft urgent whine that meant he had been waiting. Something about it loosened the tight thing sitting in my chest just slightly.David opened the door in a dark shirt and trousers, car keys already in his hand."You came," he said."I said I would."He stepped back to let me in and Shadow shoved his nose straight into my palm. I scratched behind his ears and he made a sound as if I had personally rescued him from something terrible. Which, technically, I had."Food is in the cabinet above the stove," David said, moving through the apartment the way he moved everywhere. “He eats twice. Morning and evening. Don't let him guilt you into a third. He will try.""Noted.""Leash is on the hook by the door. He doesn't pull unless he sees a cat. If he sees a cat, use both hands.""Okay.""Water bowl gets refilled when it drops below half. He's dramatic about it even when it's three-quarters full
DEADLY FACADE: I Became His Obsession Shadows
Lenny's PovI was down the stairs before the thought fully formed."Hey!" I shouted, running into the road. "Hey, stop!"The truck braked hard. I reached the dog and dropped to my knees in front of it, arms out, putting myself between the animal and the front bumper. The truck stopped close enough that I felt the heat off the engine.The dog, black, medium-sized, shaking from ears to tail pressed itself against my shins."You're okay," I said, keeping my voice level even though my heart was going absolutely haywire. "Hey. You're okay, look at me."He looked at me. Big brown eyes, completely overwhelmed."Good boy." I wrapped both arms around him carefully and pulled him toward the curb. My shoulder clipped the side of the truck's bumper as I moved and pain cracked through my arm but I kept moving until we were off the road.The driver rolled his window down. "Lady, what the…""You should watch where you're going," I said without looking up.The truck drove away with considerably more
DEADLY FACADE: I Became His Obsession Strange Neighbor
Lenny's PovI woke up to a ceiling I didn't recognize for exactly four seconds before I remembered the motel.I sat up slowly. My head throbbed once. The jacket was folded neatly on the end of the bed and I stared at it for a long moment.The stranger from the bar.I had thrown up on him and then apparently blacked out in his car and he had….what? Brought me here? Did you know where I was staying?I picked up the jacket and checked the pockets. It was empty, there was no wallet, no ID, nothing that told me who he was.I set it back down."Okay," I said to the room. "Moving on."Moving on turned out to be deeply unglamorous. I spent the next two weeks submitting applications to every entry-level position I could find.I wrote cover letters that were honest in some places and strategically vague in others.The rejections came in three flavors. The automated kind that arrived within twenty minutes of submitting.The kind where they called me in, seemed hopeful, then went quiet after the
DEADLY FACADE: I Became His Obsession Liquid Courage
Lenny’s PovThe karaoke bar was exactly the kind of place you went to when you wanted to forget that your life had gone up in flames.Sticky floors, neon lights that flickered every few minutes, and a lot of strangers who were all too wrapped up in their own misery to notice yours.Perfect."Another one," I said, sliding my glass across the bar counter.The bartender, a heavyset guy with a sleeve tattoo and kind eyes, looked at me for a second. "That's your fourth.""I can count." I smiled tightly. "Another one, please."He poured it without another word.I tossed it back and let the burn chase away the image of Rico and that woman in my kitchen. The kitchen I had paid for, the apartment I had basically funded with five years of my life.I set the glass down harder than I meant to."Okay," I muttered to myself. "Okay. You are not going to cry in a karaoke bar. That is not who you are."I was absolutely going to cry in a karaoke bar.The MC up front was waving his arm around, begging f
DEADLY FACADE: I Became His Obsession I’ll Find You
Lenny’s POVGradually, the darkness that had swallowed me finally began to spit me out, taking off its tendrils as I heard sounds muddled in my ear. Soon, the fluorescent lights above me flooded my vision. After taking a minute to adjust, I swept my head from one side to another."You're alive," a deep, gruff voice filled my ears. My shoulders stiffened for a second, until I rolled the tension out of them, straightened up, and locked eyes with a guy leaning against a white wall, looking at me.Just as I was about to inquire about the identity of the stranger in front of me, a feeling of pain speared through my leg. I finally looked at it, set in a cast. I blinked several times at it and then looked at the guy. "You did this," I said, my voice entwined with accusation. "You were the one driving the car, weren't you?"My voice was getting louder with every syllable that trailed out of my lips because my life was already a hot mess, and now I was injured. Great. The man barely flinched a
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