The Missing Mona Lisa by David Ferrazi

Author:David Ferrazi [Ferrazi, David]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-06-19T22:00:00+00:00

Two steaming eyes boarded the 10:20 a.m. flight to Florence.

Eyes that knew, eyes that followed, eyes that chased.

Eyes under a state of emergency.

Eyes pulled out of their comfort zone.

Eyes that cursed.

And if even those dead horse’s eyes weren’t enough to make intrusive eyes stop, perhaps the eyes of a gun could black out Marc Lambert’s eyes.

The airplane window almost blew out with the fury of two eyes.

29

T he plane landed in Florence at 11 o’clock in the morning. As anxious as a historian arriving at the city, Marc looked out the rounded window and enjoyed the sight of the sun shining over the reddish roofs along the Arno River and feeding with its light the green Tuscany fields. And, standing out on the horizon, the Cattedrale di Santa Maria del Fiore prodding the sky with its giant dome. After a couple of hours of travelling, Marc had finally arrived at the cradle of Italian Renaissance. He’d arrived at the city where in other times legendary artists would walk through narrow streets with their eyes of gold. Michelangelo, Donatello, Leonardo Da Vinci. Where in stone-wall houses inspired individuals were born. Dante Alighieri, Machiavelli, Gucci.

But Marc hadn’t come to the city because of them. He wasn’t looking for the hell’s door or luxury clothes. He wasn’t there like almost all the visitors, to sightsee and take photos at the famous arched bridge. The old capital of art was just a stopover to his final destination.

Carrying only a briefcase with enough material for a short stay, Marc got off the plane and walked with a herd toward the exit. Among that crowd, he was just one more body in motion, almost invisible, and that was how he wanted to pass through there. Unnoticed. He’d left Paris behind to escape from all the lights, especially, the spotlights. And he truly hoped on the land of Michelangelo’s David, statues would keep drawing more attention than living bodies.

With the corner of his eyes, he glimpsed a poster with the city's tourist attractions, almost all of them related to art, and thought that city alone was a work of art by itself. He was sure it was possible to find beauty even in the sewer. In the underground, perhaps? And there was another certainty Marc was bringing from Paris. That Florence had been a frequent destination during the life of a French artist. After a second of reflection, he wondered, and why wouldn’t it be?

He felt his phone vibrate inside his pocket and complained within his own mind, who is this time sending me messages? Bernard? Alicia? Barbara? Or someone else I’m going to ignore as well?

How long until they realized he was incommunicable? He didn’t intend to worry about Parisian issues anytime soon. His focus was only on Italy. That was why he’d left Paris discreetly. To leave behind the people who could get in his way. Now, he was just thinking in looking ahead, in going after the missing girl and the unknown reason for an artist to have visited a specific vineyard in Italy.

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