The wristwatch felt heavy enough to be worth something. Tessa put the wristwatch in her pocket and prepared to clean up the mess.
She hoped she would never see him again. One thing was for sure, she wouldn't forget him so easily.
Tessa's day started in the worst way. First, her colleagues who opened the restaurant in the morning found a few stray bullets in the ceiling that she hadn't been able to reach. They reported the state of the restaurant to the owner and he had spent the better part of the morning berating her for failing to protect his restaurant.
She had played back his words as she walked through the halls of Midfields Hospital with a thick frown. How was she supposed to fight off two men with guns? She was willing to bet that Amadeus, her boss, would've fainted if he had seen Vincenzo's face last night.
And she was right because the moment she mentioned the Mancini name, he stopped talking and turned as white as an unfried batch of potatoes. He told her to take the day off and the first thing she did was hurry to her mother.