Why Cry When You Made Me Leave? novel · Chapter 15 of 24
Chapter 15: The Stolen Sheet
We reached Hill Street before the underboss's men had finished cutting Tancredi's rope.
The iron gate of the Cardinale compound stood open.
The guard who had told me "Don's orders, miss" nine days ago stood beside it with his cap in both hands.
"Miss Sabbadin," he said.
He stepped back and looked at his boots.
I walked up the gravel drive I had left in the rain, with Corrado beside me and two of his young men behind.
Under the old law, the council's guest was safe in any house in Brogary.
Thirty men in the yard knew it, and none of them lifted a hand.
Tancredi was already on the front steps.
He must have run the whole way up the hill, because he was gray and gasping, and his bound wrists were raw.
In his right hand he held a single yellowed sheet of paper.
In his left he held a lighter.
Fiorella stood in the great front doorway behind him with her arms wrapped around herself.
She looked at me once, and then at the ground.
The rest of this chapter is part of the paid portion of the series. Chapters 1–12 of Why Cry When You Made Me Leave? are free to read — start from the beginning, then unlock the rest with coins in the app.
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