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?”

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

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 down for a

look at the man next

under the fading streetlights, and she was

Screech!

by a sharp and piercing

the window and saw a row of black cars without

their high beams on and showed no signs of slowing

eyes widened, and her heart skipped a

doomed, Tyler’s car emitted a rumble, and smoke

the

lightning. Had she not fastened her seatbelt, she could have

up the pace

Vicky had always been considered

realized at this

from all the shaking

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