All Chapters of DEADLY FACADE: I Became His Obsession : Chapter 111 - Chapter 120

Lenny's Pov The new location was smaller than the safe house.One room with a kitchenette in the corner and a bathroom barely big enough to turn around in. Luca had found it through a contact who owed him a favor from years back, far enough outside the city that nobody would think to look here."This is it," Vincenzo said, locking the door behind us. "Nobody knows this address except me, Luca, and the man who owns the building."I looked around the cramped space and felt the walls pressing in on me from all sides. The bed took up most of the room, and the single chair was pushed against the wall to make space to walk. "It's smaller than the last one.""It's harder to find. Smaller is the price for that.""I'm scared."He looked at me, and I saw something shift behind his eyes. A recognition. An acknowledgment."I don't say that easily. You know that about me by now. But I am. Genuinely scared in

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

Lenny's Pov Bressi got him into the back seat, and I climbed in after him, pulling his head into my lap before the door even closed."Drive," I said, my voice coming out sharper than I intended. "Now.""Where?" Bressi said, already pulling out fast, tires screeching against the pavement."Anywhere that isn't here. I'll figure out the rest."I pressed both hands against his side and felt the blood warm and constant beneath my palms. I had never in my life felt anything as frightening as the specific way his chest was rising slower than it should have been, each breath a struggle I could feel through his ribs."Vincenzo," I said, leaning close to his ear. "Stay with me. I need you to stay with me."He didn't answer, and the silence was worse than any sound he could have made."Bressi," I said, not looking up from his face. "Talk to me. What do we do?""The doctor who treated Luca," Bres

Vincenzo's PovPain came first; it was not sharp at the start, it was just there, sitting heavy in my side and pulling tighter every time I tried to breathe in too deep. I did not know where I was. I did not know how much time had passed. My body felt like it belonged to someone else, and I could not get it to listen to me.I drifted back under before I could make sense of anything.The next time I came up, there was a sound pulling at me. A voice; I could not make out the words, but I knew the voice and something in my chest loosened just from hearing it. It was steady and low; it kept going even when I could not follow what it was saying.I held onto that sound like it was the only solid thing in the room.I drifted again. Each time I came back, the pain was a little more familiar, and the voice was still there, sometimes closer, sometimes further, but always somewhere near me. At one point I thou

Lenny's Pov"Someone knows we're here," Bressi said again."How?" I said."I don't know yet," he said. "A car circled the street twice in the last twenty minutes. Slowed down both times right in front of this house. That's nothing."The doctor's face had gone tight. "We don't move patients like him on instinct.""We don't have a choice," Bressi said. "If I'm wrong, we lost twenty minutes. If I'm right and we stay, we lose him."I did not need to hear anything else. "Where do we take him?""I have a place," Bressi said. "Only me and Giovanni know about it. It's clean, it's stocked, nobody's been near it in months.""How far?" I asked."Twenty-five minutes," he said.The doctor looked between us, jaw working. "Moving him is not without risk. If anything tears open on the way there.""Then I'll fix it the same way I fixed it the first time," I said. "We don't have twenty m