#133 “I Want You to Listen to Me Now.”

Evelyn drummed her fingers anxiously on the car’s dashboard, her eyes darting to her wristwatch every ten seconds.

“Please calm down, Alexander will handle it,” Sandro muttered, slightly nervous, after another tap on the dashboard.

“It’s been twenty-five minutes, I can’t calm down. Where are they?” Evelyn asked, biting her lip.

“I guess they’re negotiating,” Sandro replied under his breath.

“For what? They stated their conditions, we fulfilled them, they should have already left,” commented Evelyn.

“We haven’t fulfilled them exactly…”Sandro admitted.

“What does that mean?” Evelyn turned to him, a sting of concern in her voice.

“Everything is under control,” Sandro assured her, though he couldn’t stop glancing at the entrance to the abandoned warehouse.

“How can you tell me that everything is under control, that you have not fulfilled the conditions? What have you done?” Evelyn’s voice raised in frustration.

Sandro turned to Evelyn and sighed. ” We didn’t give them all the money. We wanted to make sure Sophia was okay before we gave them the rest.”

That’s not what they asked for. Call the police

phone from her bag and handed it to

before calling, we might

situation is already complicated. Now call the police right away and tell them what’s going

then towards the entrance, expecting Sophia and Alexander to appear

there’s my best

“I

her hands. He dialed 911, and as soon as he

to report a

their minds racing with the urgency of escape, hastily moved

a hairpin? We can try to pick the lock?” Alexander urgently proposed. Sophia, always a step ahead, chuckled and pointed to the floor next to the

breaking the door, and then what? The front is swarming with armed men; we

voice drowned out by

eyes lighting up. “Evelyn and Sandro called the

door burst open, and a group

quick, quick…”one of

seized Sophia and Alexander, hustling them down the hall. However, Alexander’s hands were still

normally,” one of

can’t, my hands are tied. I have no balance,” Alexander shouted

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