Doubt

Leo sighed.

"You sure you can't drop me a hint or something?"

"Nope, Valentina probably would want you to find out yourself, and knowing her you will be participating in it aswell pretty soon."

This got Leo only more confused, but he didn't have a good feeling about it

There was a reason Aria was so vague about it so he could already guess that the income wouldn't be coming from a legal source.

Leo decided to not continue questioning Aria about it since he wouldn't get far with that, Aria would just continue giving the same responses.

Instead, Leo decided to tackle the source first.

He bid Aria farewell and left the room, looking for Valentina.

Leo wanted to learn as much as soon as possible to get a better view of what kind of person Valentina truly was.

Either way he would still probably work with her since he needed all the support he could get.

Leo kept looking around the house until he found Valentina.

Valentina was still sitting at the table in the kitchen, drinking coffee.

Leo didn't question how many cups she had at this point, he already knew that the amount wasn't healthy.

"Valentina, I need to ask you something." said Leo as he once again sat beside her.

"What do you want now? If you want more "furniture" then you should know that I'm not paying this time." said Valentina as she took a sip of her coffee.

"No, it's something else. Where does most of your income come from? Since it seems to fluctuate a lot."

Valentina looked around the room before putting her cup of coffee down.

Her usual laid back face turned into a serious one.

"Has Aria told you anything?"

Leo shook his head sideways.

"No, she told me that if I wanted to know I should ask you." said Leo.

He already noticed how the mood turned heavy, so he got serious as well.

"Listen Leo, tonight at 11:00 PM I will show you, normally I would never show anyone except some of my employees it but I want you to play a role in it at some point. Do you agree?"

"I'm fine with you showing me it but I can't say for sure if I will play a actual role in it, that is something else entirely."

Valentina sighed.

"It is quite a heavy topic, so make sure you are mentally prepared."

Leo got more and more suspicious, but in the end, he agreed to accompany Valentina.

He was her bodyguard after all, so he should at least know what she was up to.

He already was prepared for some less than pleasant situation but still didn't exactly know what he was getting in to.

Valentina continued.

"To be more exact, a car will pick us up at 11:00 PM, I recommend you go sleep soon since we will not be back before 5:00 AM."

This got Leo even more confused since it would mean that they had to drive for a while.

Leo nodded.

"Yeah, fine. I'll head to bed now and prepare myself around 9:00 PM. Do I need to bring anything with me?"

"Yep, bring your weapon with you, make sure to not wear your brooch or your standard uniform. We're going off the grid and don't want to be traced back in any way. Once again, make sure to prepare yourself mentally, but honestly, I don't think you need to as you've already gone through quite some stuff."

Leo walked off toward the basement once again.

This time the basement was completely empty, and there was nothing except the mattress.

He laid down on the mattress and pulled the blanket over his body.

He couldn't help but think about what Valentina had planned for him, and then there was the fact that she expected him to take a role in whatever she was doing, which he also didn't have a good feeling about.

There was a reason she wanted to show him, and he couldn't tell him.

Leo attempted to sleep for a while but the thoughts got more overwhelming.

In the end, he somehow managed to fall asleep.

But for once he felt sad that the basement was empty.

And that was because he truly felt alone.