‘I hope you never find your stupid little brother and I hope your family never goes to Australia. I don’t want you there. You’ll pay for this!’ His vitriolic tirade was mixed with a blubbering of tears, spit and blood.
Enraged, Nardo looked back.
‘Leave him,’ Taddeo commanded. ‘Come on. We’ve got to tell Mama.’
The brothers hurried back inside the camp, hoping to catch their mother before she returned to the search. They needed to tell her what they had learned straight away. That is if they could even believe Monte. It occurred to them both that the boy could be lying just to throw them off the scent.
Contessa was shocked by the boys’ report.
‘Monte says they got on a train to Milano?’ She couldn’t understand how it was possible or what it would mean in terms of finding them. Milano
