Adriano Using a wall as cover, I carefully inspected the trees on the opposite side. I knew one of the intruders was hidden somewhere behind them. If I could just capture one of them alive, then I could extract some information from them. This situation was getting more and more suspicious. Blatantly courting their deaths by infiltrating my property. What could the perpetrator have in mind? Normally I would deal with all these threats fearlessly, but now that I needed to protect Lucia, I couldn’t be as careless. The very thought of something happening to her brought forth an almost crippling distress. Finally I caught sight of some movement behind the trees. I immediately fired several shots at the place, an evil grin pulling at my lips when I heard the other person release a pained gru

