All Chapters of DEADLY FACADE: I Became His Obsession : Chapter 71 - Chapter 80

Lenny's Pov We got back to the apartment at eleven and he locked the door and checked in with Luca and I stood in the kitchen and waited for both of those things to be done. When he turned around I crossed to him and kissed him before he could say anything. He pulled me in immediately and kissed me back hard and his hands went to my waist and I grabbed the front of his jacket and we stayed like that for a long moment. "Hey," he said against my mouth. "Later," I said. He walked me backward to the bedroom and we fell onto the bed and his jacket went somewhere on the floor and mine followed it and his hands moved over me like he was checking that I was still there and intact and real. "I'm okay," I said. "I know," he said. "I just need to." "I know," I said. "Come here." He kissed my jaw, my neck, my collarbone. I pulled his shirt over his head and ran my hands over his chest and his ribs, careful of the bruising that was still there from the last several weeks of thi

He made breakfast.Actual food. Eggs and toast and coffee already made when I came out at eight thirty. Shadow had been fed, the living room furniture was back in its normal position. He was at the stove with a spatula.I stood in the doorway."I can hear you deciding what to say," he said, without turning around."I wasn't going to say anything," I said."You were," he said. "You make a specific sound when you're standing somewhere deciding on a comment.""I don't make a sound," I said."A very small one," he said. "But consistent."I crossed to the counter. "I was going to say it smells good.""That's not what you were going to say," he said."No," I admitted. "I was going to ask when you learned to cook properly.""Francesca," he said, turning and putting a plate in front of me. "She had one rule. You eat in this house, you learn to feed yourself in this house.

Lenny's Pov He came back at four in the afternoon.I heard the key in the lock from the couch where I had been sitting with Shadow for the last two hours pretending to read.He came through the door and I looked at his face. Eyes running the room automatically before he even had the door fully shut behind him.I put the book down."How bad," I said.He locked the door, put his keys on the hook, and took his jacket off slowly."Dante named you," he said.I went still. "What do you mean he named me?""In the room," he said. "In front of five captains. Your full name, your age and record. Your proximity to me." He crossed to the table and put both hands flat on the surface. "He made you a subject of the conversation.""In front of five captains.""Yes.""Why would he do that in front of witnesses," I said."Because naming you in tha

Vincenzo's Pov The evidence file was complete.I had gone through it four times in the last two days, and every pass confirmed the same thing. Twelve documented exchanges, the cargo intercept planned and approved. Money movement traceable to Dante's private accounts. Rico's name in three separate communications as a confirmed asset.It was enough. It had always been enough.I closed the folder, sat back, and looked at the ceiling.Luca was across the table with his own coffee and his laptop. He had been quiet for the last twenty minutes, which was his way of giving me space to think without making it obvious he was doing it."The session is confirmed for tomorrow morning," he said finally."I know," I said."Commission chair sent formal notice an hour ago," Luca said. "Nine o'clock, full panel.""Dante will have prepared a counter to the file," I said."Yes," Luca said. "He's had two days since the informal session. He'll walk in with something.""What does he have?""The civilian an

Lenny's Pov We drove back mostly in silence. The kind that had something in it that both of us were sitting with separately.I looked at his hands on the wheel. Then at the road ahead."Hey," I said."I'm okay," he said."I didn't ask if you were okay," I said. "I said hey."He glanced at me sideways."Hey," he said back."Do you want to talk about what Francesca told you?" I said. "Or do you want to not talk about it tonight?"He was quiet for a moment."I knew my mother was taken," he said. "I knew it was connected to the family. I knew it was used as a move against my father." He paused. "I did not know it was Dante's mother who arranged it.""That changes something," I said."It confirms something," he said. "Dante has known his entire life that his mother killed mine. He has been walking around with that for twenty years.""