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Marco leaned his forehead against hers. Outside, a truck engine rumbled in the piazza.

The Germans had taken the village two days ago.

“I remember.”

“No one else knows the code. The old bell pattern for avviso – three strikes, pause, three strikes. My grandfather taught me.”

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He didn’t answer. The plan was simple: explosives on the stone arch bridge a mile below the village. But the detonator was in the church sacristy, and the Germans had turned the piazza into a staging ground. Someone would have to go down there.

“Elena–”

When the villagers crept out of their cellars, they found the tower steps wet with blood. The bell rope hung empty, swaying in the cold wind.