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“Lucia,” I whispered, then took off running for the woods on the other side of the house.
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Lucia
The asshole must have knocked me out.
When I came to, my face hurt – and so did my hands. They were stretched over my head, my wrists were bound, and I was being pulled along by them. My feet and legs were cutting a trough through the mud as Zollner dragged me behind him.
I tried to scream for Massimo –
But something was in my mouth. Some kind of gag.
I tried to kick my feet –
But my ankles were bound, too.
Suddenly we stopped. Zollner let go of my hands, and I collapsed onto the muddy ground.
Above me loomed a bumper; to my right was a tire.
Zollner opened up the rear hatchback of the vehicle. “This would have been so much easier if you’d just cooperated.”
Then he reached down towards me.
I turned on my side and tried to squirm under the car, but Zollner yanked me back and hoisted me onto my feet.
“Into the back you go,” he said in his cheerful voice.
BANG!
I jerked in fear – and Zollner flinched behind me at the same time.
In the silence that followed, we could both hear a hissing sound:
fsssssssssss
Then a second shot – BANG!
fsssssssssss
“Scheisse…” the weirdo muttered behind me.
“ZOLLNER!” Massimo roared from the darkness.
My heart soared!
Then my stomach lurched as Zollner wrapped his arm around my neck and placed the cold muzzle of his pistol against my head.
“You should have waited to kill me once I had her in the Range Rover, Herr Rosolini,” Zollner said cheerfully. “Shooting out my tires will merely prolong the ordeal.”
“LET HER GO!”
“Mmmm… I think not.”
Zollner dragged me with him, keeping my body in front of him.
I tried wriggling out of his grasp –
