“Turn around, go back,” Benjamin said.

“First, tell me what’s going on.”

“It’s that guy, Diesel Parker, the one you asked me about last time. He was the one who hurt Emma.”

“Diesel Parker!” Emmeline and Abel exclaimed in unison.

“Yes, he’s right by the roadside.”

“I’ve finally caught him!” Abel clenched his teeth and turned the car around.

“Abel, what are you doing? Why do you care about him? It’s been so long.” Emmeline worried, but Abel had. already turned the car around.

Sure enough, there was a burly man by the roadside, shirtless with his clothes draped over his shoulder, humming a tune. It really was Diesel.

“You’re wearing your uniform,” Abel reminded Benjamin.

That’s an easy fix,” Benjamin replied, unbuttoning his shirt and baring his arms.

Abel quickly parked the car without killing the engine and said to Emmeline, “Stay in the car.”

Then, he and Benjamin stormed toward Diesel, grabbed the shirt on his shoulders, wrapped it around his head, and unleashed a furious barrage of punches..

Diesel howled in pain and fell to the ground, soon becoming motionless. In just a minute, the fight was over.

Abel and Benjamin quickly got back into the car and raced away, covering a hundred yards in an instant, turning a corner in the darkness.

filled with a mix of shock and anxiety. “You two, that was quite brutal!”

to be handled that way.” Benjamin smiled. “If you can’t deal with someone officially, you do

he? He lay motionless in the end,” Emmeline

fights,” Benjamin reassured

come to think of it,” Emmeline added. “I saw

Abel said. “Are you sure

under the magnolia tree

mentioned. “It was an unregistered large truck, supposedly for hauling soil

school?

day,”

repair shop, Abel drove Emmeline back to Altney Steel.

to the

Emmeline asked. “Has

much at all, and I still have to drive,” Abel replied. “Come sit in front; you might get carsick in

Emmeline moved to the front passenger seat.

enjoying each other’s company

the night were

arm, pulling Emmeline into his embrace, and

was a melancholy that

off at the community

on the other side of

smoked it in silence, and then started the

any trouble, he didn’t accompany

minutes into the drive, Emmeline’s phone call came in, and

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