After a long silence, Vicky asked, “Is it safe for me to head back to the dorm?”

“No. You won’t even make it past the dorm’s gate,” Tyler said calmly.

Vicky’s breath caught in her throat. “Um… What if I go to the airport and fly to another city now?”

Tyler glanced at the time. “You woke up a little too late, so that’s probably not an option either.”

“Late? What does that mean?”

“Later than Jonathan.”

“How would you know?”

Tyler shot her an odd look as though he was wondering why she would ask such a foolish question. “The extraction of the bullet is a standard procedure. It’s not that hard to figure out how long it takes.”

Vicky felt belittled, and as she looked outside the window, realization dawned on her. “Did you injure them badly…to buy me time?”

her, there was no reason for him to go as far as injuring the three severely as he himself would be in trouble as

gaze straight ahead and his voice calm. “I’d cross them as soon as I got involved. If that’s the case, the degree of their injuries won’t matter, and I might as well get them to stay

to look at

the fading streetlights,

Screech!

a sharp and piercing screech, the car

window and saw a row

cars had their high beams on and showed no signs of slowing down as they headed

and her heart

thought they were doomed, Tyler’s car emitted a rumble, and smoke started oozing from underneath the

rubbed against the ground,

forward at the speed of lightning. Had she not fastened her seatbelt, she could have been thrown out of

behind picked up the

met Tyler, Vicky had always been considered a qualified socialite and never experienced

racing looked thrilling in movies and realized at this moment that experiencing it in real life

nauseated from all the

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