Chapter 1984

Having no other choice, I took a fifty dollar bill and placed it on the counter before taking the cake and leaving.

As I walked out, I thought about how strange the store manager was.

The store manager was a young man. When he moved his headphones, his other hand was hidden in his jacket pocket.

There didn't seem to have been many customers at the mall as I entered with Hendrix earlier.

I felt a slight panic in my heart. As I noticed how relaxed Hendrix was, I calmed down and reassured myself that I was simply overthinking things.

The bell at the door of the cake store dinged as I walked out. That's when the closest elevator opened and a man dressed in a cap and camouflaged uniform stepped out. He walked in our direction.

I didn't think much of it, I just tugged on Hendrix's sleeve and walked up the escalator. The floor wasn't crowded at all, and the camouflaged guy seemed to have his eye on us. As soon as he spotted us, he headed towards the escalator next to US.

The anxiety in my heart caused me to start breathing rapidly.

Although the stores were open, no one was around. As for the manager at the cake store, I felt like he

and serious attitude seemed more like...

man. He had now taken off his cap and was leaning on the armrest. Seeing that I had noticed him, he grinned instead of avoiding my gaze.

on Hendrix's jacket, warning him with a whisper, "The man behind

and the organization promises to give you a second chance!" When the elevator reached the first floor, there was a group of police officers guarding the stairway. They looked like hunters awaiting their

The camouflaged man spoke

I'll just let deal het energetically, "I'm not listening

me. What can you even do

spoke, Hendrix began to wrap his hand around my waist. By the time I reacted, he had

simply took off his jacket and revealed the explosives he had allover his body, "Think everything will be fine once you've evacuated everyone? I still have two innocent people

enough for

hand, revealing the remote

me, but we

in my ears, and all the muscles in my body had

clearer after I shook

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