Once the guards left, Ken took out a leather bag and handed it to Julie. Julie frowned at it and told him that she didn’t want anything from him. Ken set it on the table, pushed it in her direction, and insisted that she take it. He shouted at her, but still she refused the bag.
Ken grimaced and said, “I don’t want to have to do this but I suspected that just such a scenario might happen. In order to prepare for it, my men and I dug a ditch about two kilometers from here, out in the forest where nobody goes. If you don’t take the bag, then I will shoot you in the back of the head, execution style, and burry you in the ditch. Where it is situated, it is unlikely that anyone will ever find your bodies.”
Hearing this, Julie sighed and opened the bag in such a way that Anna would also be abl
