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The glue would take a few seconds to harden, so she snapped several pictures with the phone in les and orientations Feo was in no hurry to finish He was eating it up

By the count of ten, Raven knew the glue had hardened and she suddenly flinched as if he’d pinched her She slapped hilish

“Hey! This guy just groped me!”

She turned and waved frantically to the police officers

As she expected, Feo started cursing back at her and getting in her face He wasn’t going to take a hit fro back

She reared back again, but slowly enough so that he could grab her forearm

Exactly as she wanted him to

She rotated her body and clasped his wrist so that his arle Feo let out a yelp of pain Raven used his body weight against hiround facedown The pistol was now fully exposed because his shirt was pulled over his head

She backed away and screamed, “Ele tem uma arma!” She’d memorized the phrase

He’s got a gun!

The police officers saw the pistol and rushed over as they drew their weapons

There had been a small chance that Feo would have opted for a shoot-out instead of risking a stay in a Brazilian prison That’s why she had glued the ha would have happened He would have gone down in a hail of bullets, and neither of the police off

icers would have been injured

But that would have been messy This as a lot tidier

One of the policemen put his boot on Feo’s back while the other re hiry Spanish Raven couldn’t understand it, but she bet it consisted of a few choice words about her