Anna by Niccolo Ammaniti & Jonathan Hunt

Author:Niccolo Ammaniti & Jonathan Hunt
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: The Text Publishing Company
Published: 2017-06-20T04:00:00+00:00

7

‘Stop. Wait a minute.’

Anna was walking, with her fists clenched, up the slope from the quarry to the hotel, followed by Pietro.

‘Where are you going? Stop.’

She speeded up.

Pietro tried to keep up with her. ‘Wait …’ He grabbed her by the shoulder. ‘Anna!’

She twisted out of his grasp and started climbing up a bank of loose earth from a landslide which covered a hairpin bend. Her feet sank into the earth. After two more steps she kneeled down, out of breath.

‘Anna, will you let me speak?’

‘What do you want?’

He swallowed. ‘Angelica was there … I couldn’t let her see me. We’ll get him during the night. I know where they sleep.’

A bitter smile curled her lips. ‘Him? Who are you talking about?’

‘Your brother. We’ll wait until nightfall, then we’ll get him. Me and you. I promise you.’

Anna cocked her head on one side, as if Pietro was speaking a foreign language. ‘You’re a bullshitter. In fact, you’re a coward. And what’s all this talk about me and you? Who do you think you are? And what do you want from me?’ Her voice grew louder, and was breaking. ‘Do I know you? Are we friends? Brother and sister?’ She pushed him, and he fell down on his backside. ‘You’d better keep away from me. I’m tougher than Angelica. Go away and look for your shoes.’ Scrambling up on all fours, she got over the rubble and started walking again.

Pietro didn’t follow. He shouted: ‘I took you to your brother. You just dashed out … I tried to stop you, but you …’

Anna put her hands over her ears.

He hadn’t helped her, the coward. If there was one thing she couldn’t stand, it was a coward.

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