#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.”

not what they asked for.

her phone from her bag and handed it to Sandro,

before calling, we might complicate the situation,” Sandro

police right away and tell them what’s

glanced at her, then towards the entrance, expecting Sophia and Alexander to appear at any moment. The clock

my best

softly. “I

and as soon as he heard the dispatcher’s voice

want to report a

minds racing with the urgency

to pick the lock?” Alexander urgently proposed. Sophia, always a step

another hairpin, but breaking the door, and then what? The front is swarming

Alexander began, his voice drowned out by a sudden, loud, and piercing

sirens,” Sophia said, her eyes lighting

could fully settle, the door burst open, and a group of

quick,

hall. However, Alexander’s hands were still bound, causing him

of the

can’t, my hands are tied. I have

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