Frustrated, the driver smacked his steering wheel angrily. “F*ck! Didn't he just say she was some costume designer? Why are there SWAT officers after us? We've been duped.”

“Boss, what are we going to do?”

The driver remained in silent thought for a few seconds before asking, “How close are they now?”

The thug sent a text, and the reply he received threw everyone for a loop. “B-Boss, they're already out of the city. They're less than ten miles away from us!”

Less than ten miles?

Natalie's heart started beating faster as hope filled her heart.

I'm going to be free!

Natalie began to calm down, but the rest of the thugs in the van were panicking. “How can they catch up so quickly?”

The driver couldn't help tightening his grip on the steering wheel as he replied, “Dumbass, they're driving custom-made SWAT vehicles. Compared to this dump of a van, we'll never be able to outrun them. We're dead!”

The van instantly fell into silence.

None of these thugs were hardened criminals; they were merely offenders who'd had brushes with the law. All had priors and had served jail time, but murder and kidnapping had never been on their agenda. They only agreed to this job because they were offered a ton of money. They were also under the assumption that this was a simple kidnapping that wouldn't involve murder.

background would warrant the assistance of a SWAT team. If they'd known this from the

a tunnel. Suddenly they heard the faint sounds of

the corner of a SWAT vehicle. His expression

along with Shane's Bentley. She cried in

actually rushed here to save

can stop shouting. I saw it too!” Drenched

what are we going to do? Should we just surrender and release this woman to them?

the other thugs

“You're all a bunch of dumbasses! Do you think they'll really let us off so easily? They brought an armed SWAT team with them; they're obviously not going to let

“B-But...”

roared the driver, his eyes filled

her; at least then we won't burden our

fell silent as they considered his proposal. They exchanged glances, beginning

of being rescued were dashed when she witnessed this scene. Instead, she

sobbing against her gag, trying to convince the

appeared to ignore her cries as they all took

our own

The driver nodded in relief. As Natalie watched in horror, the driver turned the

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