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Authors: Jonas Saul

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As he drifted off to sleep he could hear the guy at his parent’s house talking in his head. That accent again.

Then the answer came to him. He shot up in bed.

“No way. I can’t believe it.”

Hungarian.

Monika was Hungarian.

Did he know any other Hungarians?

Only his girlfriend Monika from high school. The one who disappeared. She was found in Budapest. Everything turned out to be okay except for his heart. When she ran, four months before they were to elope, she had taken his heart with her. It had been twelve years since she’d left. That was one of the last times he had heard the harsh sound of an Hungarian accent.

And now he’d heard it again. In his parent’s house. By the very people who were terrorizing him.

Could it have anything to do it Monika? Did this have anything to do with what happened twelve years ago? Attila did say something about the plan taking ten years or something.

Nothing connected or seemed plausible at all and it was the thinnest idea he had. But it was all he had. Two men show up with Hungarian accents. They talk about how this was in the works for over ten years. They know everything about him; where he lives, where his parents live and that his mother needs medical weed. They probably got his dad to call him with the address which set him up in the first place.

Everything seemed much clearer and based on this thought pattern much easier to swallow. It had to have something to do with Monika.

And who was the strange woman watching him run in the alley behind his parent’s house. Could that have been Monika? Was he stretching events to make them work into a scenario that was plausible?

Where to go next?

Avery Hammond, that’s where.

In the morning he would visit Avery to see what he remembered about that fateful night when Monika left his life forever.

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