All Chapters of FALLING FOR THE WRONG BROTHER: THIRTY DAYS IN HELL : Chapter 21 - Chapter 24

Luca Mariani POVMilan smells different from Naples.Naples smells like salt and old stone and something fried coming from somewhere always. Milan smells like money and rain and the particular ambition of a city that never fully sleeps and never fully wakes up either.I stand outside my apartment building with my bag and breathe it in and try to decide how I feel about being back.I feel nothing clean. That's the honest answer.I go inside.***The apartment is exactly how I left it. Which is obvious because nobody else has a key and I've been gone two weeks but there's still something strange about walking back into your own space and finding it waiting exactly where you put it.I drop the bag. Sit on the bed.Naples was real. My mother's hand on my face. Sofia's food container smell cutting through the ward air. My father's heavy breathing in that warehouse room while I changed his clothes and tried not to think too hard about what his life has become.That was real.This is also re

Matteo Rossi POV"Talk."Marco sets two folders on my desk without sitting down. He never sits down in my office unless I tell him to. Seven years and that hasn't changed."Luca Mariani returned to Milan yesterday morning," he says. "Met Alessandro for lunch at the apartment. Left at four."I look at the folder. Don't open it yet."And Alessandro.""He had a visitor this morning. Enzo Bianchi. Thirty minutes. Then he left for his office." A pause. "He also received a message from an unknown number two days ago. Same number that sent the photograph to Naples."I look up. "You've been tracking the number.""Since Naples yes." Marco's expression doesn't change. "It's a clean sim. Untraceable through normal channels. But the location pings put it in Milan's second district consistently." He opens the second folder. Slides it across. "Which is where this man has been staying since Tuesday."I look at the photograph.Young. Dark haired. The easy relaxed posture of someone who has spent year