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.

SWAT team. If they'd known this from the start, they would

and exited a tunnel. Suddenly they heard the faint

and spied the corner of a SWAT vehicle. His expression paled with

saw the SWAT vehicle, along with

here to

it too!” Drenched in sweat,

going to do? Should we just surrender

thugs

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

“B-But...”

his

on our own terms. Let's just kill ourselves along with her; at least then we won't burden our families. Who knows, the client might even be happy that we killed her and give our families a

considered his proposal. They exchanged glances, beginning to see

witnessed this scene. Instead, she was filled with

violently, she started sobbing against her gag, trying

they all took

our own hands than die at the hands of those

nodded in relief. As Natalie watched in horror,

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