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What a WEIRD motherfucker.
Every second I expected him to cackle like Hans Landa and say, Ooooh, that’s a bingo!
But when he finally stopped talking, the silence was even creepier.
I looked at Massimo and whispered, “What are we going to do?”
“Get the hell out of here,” he whispered back.
He reached up on a table and grabbed a knife – the one from the mercenary he’d killed in the speedboat in Venice. That had only been three and a half weeks ago, but it felt like a lifetime.
Then he began poking at the gaps between the floorboards, trying to lift them up. He finally gave up 30 minutes later when he pried up one of the floorboards and saw what was underneath.
“Fuckin’ concrete foundation,” he muttered. “I wish I’d picked a shittier cabin to stay in.”
I laughed.
He looked over at me in surprise. “What’s so funny?”
“Who would’ve thought we’d want the worst place possible to stay? And who could’ve guessed we’d get hunted by Elmer Fudd?”
Massimo frowned. “Elmer Fudd?”
“The little bald cartoon guy who hunts Bugs Bunny? ‘Be vewy, vewy quiet…’”
Massimo snorted with laughter, then shook his head. “This isn’t funny.”
“…it’s kind of funny.”
He gave me a sideways look, obviously recalling our discussion three weeks ago about my butt chin.
To his credit, though, he didn’t call me Chinderella.
“What do we do?” I asked.
“We figure out a way to get out of here.”
“Why can’t we just go out the front? I mean, he’s in the back, right?”
“A guy this smart wouldn’t leave something like that to chance. Like he said, he knows we’ll either try to wait him out or we’ll run for it.” Massimo stopped and thought for a second. “But if I distract him…”
“How?”
“I’ll shoot at him.”
“How’s that going to help us?”
“It’ll distract him while you escape.”
It took me a second to realize what he meant – and when I did, I shook my head violently. “NO. I’m not leaving you.”
“Babe – ”
“NO.”
“Lucia… if you get out of this while I keep him pinned down, you can get to town and call Niccolo. I’ll give you the number. Then you can hide out until Lars comes, and he can save me when he gets here.”
“What if Zollner just goes deeper into the woods so you can’t shoot him and then he circles around after me?”
