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ally diverted their atten

need to get used to using a commanding

hind shipping containers. Fifteen

but I'd learned somet

on avevano

when you fought like y

to lose. Absolutely not

eeched to a stop

rmed men poured ou

outed in Italian. "Lor

opene

red. The sound echoed through the peacef

gh my veins. My heart hammered, but my hands stayed s

taught

ve barrier, aimed at one of the

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u

dropped, clutching his shoulder, cu

ill. Bu

maso roared in

ving as practice. Coo

actual resistance. Lorenzo probably thought

dead

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from the le

kicked in in

squeezed

caught him

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get b

ust li

n still raised, s

irst

satisfaction rose in m

ost in m

my arm. "Focus!" he yelled,

I need

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ed. A bullet wound on her shoulder. Looking around, I si

twice. Didn't

ots. Cen

pped.

ins. I guess I have built the r

ated, abandoning some bodies. Engin

by ringing ears and heavy

ounded," Tom

into its case in my wais

ng. No t

omeone who'd crossed a lin

side me. "You oka

cou

s bleeding. Lucia smiled sweetly. "Yes, piccol

ded distant, looking into her

tudied my f

I looked up. "I

ng nothing keeps you alive."

just proved I was a

te believing in love and

omeone who could kil

ut re

ng my father

become my father's true daugh

uzzed. Unk

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me a m

l

ntainer, looking at th

him that day during the

id. Taking a few pictures, I left the scene. Tommaso and Lucia we

wasn't that serious. After fifty min

at the pictures,

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jumped. N

evidence a