“Clark! Wake up!

“Clark, don’t fall asleep!”

Esther felt a rush of fear, her heart pounding. He worried that Clark might not make it.

Gabriel gritted his teeth through the pain and approached the cement truck.

“Get out of the car,” he commanded.

The cement truck’s door creaked open, and a man smelling of alcohol stumbled out. As he stepped out, a card fell from the truck.

Gabriel leaned down to pick up the card, too distracted to keep an eye on the drunk driver.

The card featured a bright poppy flower on the front and had a simple message on the back.

[A small token of appreciation].

was signed

him. These were the same

at Esther, who was with Clark and Felix some distance away, and felt a chilling sense of being

truck driver, grabbed him by the collar, and demanded, “Tell

driver appeared bewildered. “What are you

to the card. “This card! Where

driver asked, “What

the driver and waited

driver wouldn’t

question was: where were those drug dealers hiding? Were they

ambulance and police’s blaring sirens echoed as

but not critical, thanks to Agatha. Felix had merely fainted

thorough medical examinations,

informed Esther that he needed to leave to

to the

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