Chapter 76
Crack!
Blam!
Massimo’s gunshots were getting farther away as I ran farther from the house –
And then I tripped.
Something small and unforgiving caught my shin, and I toppled face-first to the ground.
I grunted and pushed up against the mud and wet pine needles so I was on my hands and knees.
When I looked back, I saw a thin line a foot above the ground.
A wire – ?!
Then I felt something step on the gun in my right hand, pinning it to the ground and crushing my finger in the trigger guard.
I looked up in panic to see a man towering above me.
He wore an alpine hat – the type with the side brims slightly folded up.
In his hands, he held a rifle with a huge scope.
I couldn’t make out much of his face in the shadows –
But I heard him as he whispered, “Shhhhh.”
So I screamed my head off.
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“Fräulein,” the man sighed –
Then brought the butt of his rifle down on my face.