A Beauty With Multiple Masks

Gerald remained skeptical. “What makes you think it’s really a trap? Are you sure of this?”

The man sounded a little impatient. “You can have the lead vehicle drive over again if you don’t believe me.”

Gerald did just that and commanded the car in front to push on toward their original destination, and a few seconds passed before an earth-shattering explosion was heard and the lead vehicle was ripped up in two amidst a ferocious blaze.

As the flames spread, the sections of the road behind, too, erupted in a series of detonations.

The thunderous aftermath left Gerald a little aghast. He felt the entire ground tremor and no matter how hardy their car was, he could still sense the potency of the aftershocks that ensued.

It took Gerald a while to recover himself, and he drew a cross upon his chest. “Lord have mercy…”

They had narrowly escaped an ominous fate!

Across the way, Vinson narrowed his eyes as he watched the lead vehicle blew to smithereens. “He’s onto us.”

Jordan was positively fuming and close to tearing his own hair out. “Did that fella have a mine detector with him? How did he manage to discover our setup and intentionally sacrifice a car just to prove a point to us?”

came through the receiver. “What now,

convoy fade into the distance. “We won’t be able

already been alerted, there was no

they were able to catch up, their odds of victory would have been diminished by half and it

not one who would readily gamble with the

a shuffle of footsteps came up rapidly

see the rotund sales manager huffing and puffing as

no! It’s terrible! A car out there has spontaneously combusted! Are you gentlemen

would miss out on the plump commission to be had

was half expecting for their enemies to launch a sneak attack after they created a distraction, so

down and breathed out

candidly, “I’m going out to Carter and the rest

and made a

flabbergasted.

blow… or could it

chill down his spine, as though a wind of foreboding had