The air carried the sea breeze across the faces of the men guarding Vanessa's gift to the Morettis.An apparently abandoned house near the coast would be the perfect place for the meeting with the venomless scorpion.The ticking of the clock in the kitchen marked three in the afternoon. A thick silence enveloped the room. The atmosphere inside the house smelled of dampness, confinement… betrayal.Everything was dark; only a small crack in the wall allowed a faint thread of light to enter, drawing a trembling line across the concrete floor.It took Dino a few seconds to regain consciousness. His eyelids felt heavy, as if they were made of lead. A stabbing pain shot through the back of his neck, burning, like the edge of a freshly sharpened knife.He tried to move, but couldn’t. Something rough, coarse, was tightening around his wrists and ankles. He was tied up. A hard, old chair, probably made of rusted iron, creaked under his m
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