Kidnapped by Charles Fox

Author:Charles Fox
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Picador

Martine:

For two days we looked for him. We went to every friend’s house and we looked. Someone said Paul was seen on the bridge with two guys, and I thought about the guys that were in the street outside our place. Then it came out in the newspapers that he was missing. Then when I came back in the afternoon there was a letter lying on my bed. I saw at once that it was Paul’s handwriting. It was addressed to me, but inside was a note that began “Cara Mama…” So we took the letter to Gail’s apartment, because it said, “Don’t call the police,” but Gail was not there. The concierge told us she was away, maybe even out of the country, not living in Italy anymore.

We waited outside her building until it got dark, but no one came. We didn’t know what to do. On one hand we knew the truth, but we didn’t know if it would help if we went to the police, if we said one word too much, boom, the kidnappers must kill him. Finally we decided we had to call the police, we couldn’t just leave Paul, we knew something was really wrong. When we were waiting, Jutta and I talked secretly together, and we said they can’t know that Paul knew these people. We never told anyone, not even Gail, that Paul was deeply involved with the malavita. We’d already had our experience. The police came and picked us up, and they took us to the questura. Gail was upset at us because we called the police, but there was no other choice. Jutta and I were taken to different departments and we showed them the letter and they laughed. Nobody took it seriously. The police told us, “Okay, we’ll take the letter, thank you very much, you can go now.”

They went back to Gail’s apartment. This time she was home.

Later still that night Gail received another visitor.

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