Chapter Forty-eight

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"Any news from our prisoner?" Emanuele asked Jack. "Not yet," Jack replied. "I haven't heard anything since yesterday when Azur was here." Just then, Jack's phone rang, so he retrieved it from his pants pocket to answer it. It was clear that Azur was calling as Jack began to use sign language instead of speaking through video chat. It was a quick conversation, and after Jack hung up the phone, he looked in my direction. "The prisoner is dead," Jack started. "He didn't speak a single word the entire time we had him. Boris stepped out for a few minutes, and when he returned, the prisoner was dead on the floor. Azur said it looked like he had bashed his own head in." "What? How?" I asked, curious. "I imagine they had him chained to the wall in a similar way as you saw the setup in the ho

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