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 he himself would be in

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

to look at the man next to

the fading streetlights, and she was captured

Screech!

and piercing screech, the

saw a row of black cars without license plates coming

high beams on and showed no signs of

and her heart

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

the ground,

to react, the car darted forward at the speed of lightning. Had she

picked up the pace

considered a

and realized at

nauseated from all the shaking

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