Arcadia Burns
““I come here often. And I know how we can get in.”
“Get into a zoo?”
He gently took her face in both hands and smiled. “Trust me.”
“Okay.”
“Are you sure?”
“Hell, no. At least, not if we stand around here any longer.”
At Valcorrente they had left Route 121. In daytime, they could probably have seen the gray volcanic slopes of Etna from here. Now, however, just before midnight, the grounds of the Etnaland water park were a brightly lit island surrounded by deep darkness. Alessandro had parked his... Ferrari on a path in the fields, next to a high chain-link fence.
They walked along the fence on foot for about fifty yards and then reached a place where it had been cut neatly apart to waist height. Several small twists of wire held the incision together so that it couldn’t be seen at first glance. Alessandro removed them and held one corner back for Rosa to slip through.
“We’re such a couple of criminals,” she whispered.
“I recently donated a hundred thousand euros to the zoo.”MoreLess
“Get into a zoo?”
He gently took her face in both hands and smiled. “Trust me.”
“Okay.”
“Are you sure?”
“Hell, no. At least, not if we stand around here any longer.”
At Valcorrente they had left Route 121. In daytime, they could probably have seen the gray volcanic slopes of Etna from here. Now, however, just before midnight, the grounds of the Etnaland water park were a brightly lit island surrounded by deep darkness. Alessandro had parked his... Ferrari on a path in the fields, next to a high chain-link fence.
They walked along the fence on foot for about fifty yards and then reached a place where it had been cut neatly apart to waist height. Several small twists of wire held the incision together so that it couldn’t be seen at first glance. Alessandro removed them and held one corner back for Rosa to slip through.
“We’re such a couple of criminals,” she whispered.
“I recently donated a hundred thousand euros to the zoo.”MoreLess
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