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Zack was back in the living room a couple of minutes after leaving it, having finished his check of the house.
“The house is clear, there’s no-one here but us,” he told Melissa once she finished on the phone with Martins. “There’s no sign of anything being taken either, other than the shotgun.”
Although she looked relieved that there was no-one hiding in the house, waiting to kill them, Melissa didn’t look any happier about the situation, nor did she show any sign of understanding it better.
“If nothing’s been taken, apart from the shotgun, what was the point of this?” she wanted to know. “Was it just to kill Donald and Julie, to get the gun, or something else?”
Zack could only shrug. “I don’t know them, so I can’t say, not for sure. I’m not convinced the goal was to kill them, tho
