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?”

reason for him to go as far as injuring the three severely as

it and kept his hands on the steering wheel, his gaze straight ahead and his voice calm. “I’d cross them as soon as I got involved. If that’s the case, the degree

to look at the

under the fading streetlights, and she was

Screech!

a sharp and piercing screech,

window and saw a row of black cars without license plates coming from the

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

widened, and her heart skipped

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

tires rubbed against the ground,

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

behind picked up the pace and chased

always been considered a qualified socialite and never experienced

that car racing looked thrilling in movies and realized at

all the shaking

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