Chapter 68
“Read the si—” says Harod harshly as he gets closer, but the man has already rolled up his window. Harod yells at the Škoda but the man ignores him. He doesn’t even pull away with a wheel spin and screaming tires; he simply rolls off towards the garages and then onward to the main road, as if Harod’s gesticulation was of no more consequence than a broken streetlight. Harod stands rooted to the spot, so worked up that his fists are trembling. When the Škoda has disappeared he turns around and walks back between the houses, so hurried that he almost stumbles Harodr his own legs. Outside Rune and Anita’s house, where the white Škoda has quite clearly been parked, are two cigarette butts on the ground. Harod picks them up as if they were clues in a high-level criminal case. “Hello, Harod,”
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