LORENZO
I still couldn't believe it. If Mia hadn't brought up her client's case. If she hadn't pushed that hard. I would have never known.
Leonardo was alive.
That truth hit like a blade slipping slowly between my ribs… and twisting.
Pain… betrayal… disappointment… all crashing through me in waves I couldn't outrun. I had lived all these years thinking he was gone. Dead. I had buried him in my memories and sealed the casket with my own hands. But the bastard had never died but he had just gone underground hiding in my shadow.
I swallowed hard and turned to Mia, needing to feel something that wasn't this aching madness. I grabbed her hand.
"Mia… you need to be extra careful, do not trust anyone now… he can be crazy."
But she didn't respond.
Her hand went cold in mine frozen. I looked up and saw the blankness in her eyes. The gears turning something settling that terrified her more than anything I'd seen before.
