Chapter 48

(Filippo Valentini)

“Who are we visiting?” Renata asks when I park the car inside the property.

I get out of the car and she does the same, I take her hand and we walk together along the smooth stone path in the center of the lawn towards the door.

“Open up.” I pull the keys out of my shorts pocket.

“Why do you have the key to this house? Is this your parents' house?” She asks with frowning eyebrows looking at the key hanging in my hand.

“How about you stop asking questions and just open the door, piccola?” I suggest and jiggle the keys.

Before I got home, at the company I checked the security cameras in my house, I only looked at the images of the days that I was sick, I deployed the cameras so that in case I suffered an attack inside we would have the images for the investigation. That was the first time I checked the images since I moved into that house. And I confess that for the first time, as an adult, I was embarrassed. I couldn't hear what she said, but I saw myself ravin