All Chapters of DEADLY FACADE: I Became His Obsession : Chapter 31 - Chapter 40

Vincenzo's Pov The folder came through Luca on a Tuesday morning. He put it on the table in front of me without any introduction, which was the way he delivered things he already knew I wasn't going to receive well. I opened it and read. The men who had come after Lenny three weeks ago were not random. They were not a cartel with a general territorial interest in the building or the block. They were connected to a specific operation running out of the south corridor and the operation had a name woven through it from the beginning. Rico's name. "How direct is the connection," I asked. "Direct enough to be deliberate," Luca said. "He was feeding information about her movements to a contact on the south side. This goes back months, before you moved in." I looked at the page. "He was tracking her before I arrived." "Months before." "Why?" "Best current theory is leverage," Luca said. He pulled his chair closer and put his elbows on the table. "Someone upstream fr

Lenny's Pov He reached me in four steps. His hand closed around my wrist and he pulled me low and fast away from the road before I had finished processing what had just happened. People were still scattering in every direction around us. Someone's car alarm had gone off two streets over. The crowd that had been packed along the roadside thirty seconds ago was already half gone. "Are you hit," he said into my ear. "No. Are you?" "No. Move." He kept hold of my wrist and moved us through the back end of the crowd, away from the road, away from the lights, cutting between parked cars and through a gap in a chain link fence I would never have found on my own. We came out on a parallel street that was empty and dark and he pulled me against the wall of a building and stopped. He put both hands on my face and checked me over fast. My eyes, my neck, both arms.

Vincenzo's Pov Dante's message came through Luca at seven in the morning. Three lines delivered through a third party the way Dante always did things when he wanted distance between himself and the words. Luca put his phone on the table in front of me and I read it without picking it up. “The commission meets in five days. Your name is on the agenda. Giovanni's condition has been formally noted. Come prepared, or don't come at all.” I pushed the phone back across the table. "He's moving faster than the evidence," Luca said. "I know." "If the commission meets before you have the full file." "I know, Luca." He was quiet for a moment. "What do you want to do?" I stood up and went to the window. The building across the street had its lights on in the upper floors already. Someone else's ordinary morning is happening at the same time as mine. "I need to see Francesca," I said. Luca nodded once. He didn't ask why. He had been around long enough to know that there w

Lenny's Pov He lifted me onto the bench. I spread my legs wide so he could step between them. The bare bulb above us buzzed and cast harsh light over everything.David yanked my shirt up and over my head. He didn’t bother with my bra. He just pulled the cups down and sucked one of my nipples into his mouth, biting down hard enough to make me gasp. I moaned loudly and grabbed the back of his head, holding him there. He sucked and bit my tits while his hands opened my jeans and shoved them down my thighs along with my panties.I kicked them off one leg. David didn’t wait. He pushed two thick fingers straight into my pussy and started fucking me with them fast and rough. I was already soaked. The wet sounds echoed in the small room as he pumped his fingers in and out.“Fuck, you’re dripping,” he growled against my tit. “Watching me beat the shit out of him made you this wet?”“Yes,” I moaned, rocking my hips against his hand. “I couldn’t look away.”He pulled his fingers out, shoved th

Vincenzo's Pov Luca came back to my apartment a few hours later when Lenny was out. He was standing with his hands in his pockets looking at the wall with the expression of a man who knew exactly what he had done and was waiting to find out the cost of it.I closed the front door and looked at him."Before you say anything," he started."Don't," I said.He closed his mouth.I went to the counter and poured a glass of water and stood there for a moment. "How long have you been doing this work.""Seven years.""Seven years," I repeated. "In seven years you have never once used my name in front of a civilian.”"I know.""So tell me what happened this morning."Luca looked at the table. "She was wearing the necklace," he said. "The one from Caretti. I didn't expect to see her here and it caught me off guard and I said it before I thought it.""