Chapter 379

Stella was behind the wheel of her eighteen-wheeler, and Jasper was tearing up the road in his rugged SUV. They hadn't even left the base when they realized someone was tailing them. But they played it cool. Grabbing their walkie-talkies, they coordinated a plan and split in different directions.

Duke, the ringleader, was flabbergasted. "Split up! Chase 'em down! They can't get away," he barked.

Don't let the mud and grime fool you; those vehicles were beasts under the hood.

Stella, now decked out in a bulletproof vest and a steel helmet, floored it. She handled the big rig like a pro, quickly leaving their pursuers in the dust.

Taking a hidden detour through a ravine, she slipped her truck into the safety of Arcadia.

The ragtag pursuers, pushing their beat-up jalopies to the limit, arrived only to be left scratching their heads.

Where'd the trucks go?

Before they knew it, a loud bang echoed, sending them diving for cover.

Turned out, one of their tires had blown out.

"Damnation!" they cursed, scared out of their wits.

With no trace of their quarry, they had to slink back to base, tails between their legs.

Stella arrived at the base of Mount Murray to find Jasper and their canine companions already waiting. "Everything good?" he asked.

"Just a bunch of riff-raff," she replied.

Those who made it into the Kindle Society were usually tough, but this lot? They were smooth-talking slackers. Any edge they had was dulled by life's grind, reduced to conning newcomers into doing their dirty work. If real trouble came knocking, they'd probably run faster than anyone.

"And you?" Stella shot back at Jasper. "Any close calls?"

"None. Lost 'em easy," Jasper replied. His SUV was a beast and had left the pursuers in the dust.

be tough to shake. They might set ambushes on the way back. We

bridge

up trouble, but if trouble came knocking,

They broke out the RV, taking

kept watch, and Stella seemed to be napping in her room, but in reality, she

had enough to fill two big rigs, but Stella left

she covered

and couldn't afford any mishaps. If they ran into highway robbers, the tarp would

two days, they judged the

take the ragtag crew seriously, but couldn't afford to let their guard down either. They'd take

drove their clunkers back towards base, only to spot something suspicious. The ambush was there, just as they'd

disguise and driving vehicles that looked ready to fall apart at any moment, they slipped by the ambushers unnoticed. The ambushers even thought the dilapidated vehicles were an

about a dozen strong, were spread out on both sides of the road, hunkered down in a no

confrontation, so they had to deal

out of

attached a silencer to his

to make it clean,

and Cooper taking a detour to bring the previously

to flank

drove one of the trucks into view from

expected, the ambushers were instantly on high alert. "Boss, that's the

bulging with cargo

successful heist and they'd have enough

and morale low, the thought

the approaching vehicle, completely oblivious to the imminent danger from

and both Jasper and Stella

"Thwip! Thwip!"

silencers swallowed the sound of

hold back. One by one, the backs of heads blossomed with

his boss, "Boss, the driver's a

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