About ten minutes later, Shane arrived at the location marked out by the coordinates he'd received. It was a small bungalow that appeared to be built by hand. Two SWAT officers were stationed at the front door.

They walked towards Shane when they saw him. “Mr. Shane.”

“Where is she?” Shane asked, his fists clenched tightly.

One of the SWAT officers waved his hand in an inviting motion as he said, “Please follow me.”

Shane followed him to a room located on the second floor of the bungalow.

The officer opened the door to the room.

Shane was greeted by the sight of Natalie sitting on a bed, dressed in dusty, floral print clothes. There was a bowl in her hand, and she was taking small sips of chicken soup from it.

It's really her! She's alive!

The tension finally left Shane's body when he saw her safe and sound. He called out softly, “Natalie!”

At the sound of his voice, Natalie paused in surprise. She lifted her head to look at him. Her eyes were reddened with tears as she bit her lips. She answered him pitifully, “Mr. Shane.”

Shane couldn't hold himself back any longer. He took several big strides towards the bed and pulled Natalie into a tight hug.

Natalie froze, stunned at the contact.

gently cupped her face, checking for any signs

beyond a slightly swollen cheek, he heaved a sigh of relief. Then, he lifted her

his kiss. She took a long time to regain her composure, and then she pushed him away with

go of her

quickly shrunk back against the bed. She touched her lips

I came late,” Shane cut in. “I'm so

relief in his words, Natalie couldn't suppress the fear she'd felt any longer. She launched herself into

how scared she'd been the moment the van had crashed through the guard rails and

thought I was going to die back there. I was lucky

her back gently, he

her head on

really long time. After a while,

his head down to look at her and realized she'd fallen asleep

that her head was resting on a pillow. After covering her with a blanket, he left the room and went downstairs to search for

Shane,” the SWAT

find her?” Shane asked sternly as he wiped his

the cliff. They said it fell into a river. We approached them, and they brought us to the site of the crash. We found Ms. Smith knocking on

the van, she was safe when the river began flooding the van.

this was

Shane nodded his head.

to say Natalie is blessed with luck. She's been through a lot of tough situations,

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