Xavier slammed on the brake pedal and yelled, “What’s going on? What happened to you guys?”

The side collision had caused the door on Josiah’s side to be dented inward. Thankfully, the passengers in the back seats seemed to be fine.

However, the impact was so powerful that Rachel almost fell off her seat. Winnie helped her up while asking Josiah, “Are you okay? Are you injured?”

Josiah had managed to stop the car, but his head had still slammed on the steering wheel.

“D*mn it! What on earth is going on?” he cursed under his breath, feeling the massive bump on his head.

Their situation was so chaotic that no one bothered to reply to Xavier.

Subsequently, Xavier panicked more when he did not know what was going on.

Soon, his anxious voice rang out again. “Talk to me! What happened to you guys? Did Harold’s men catch up to you?”

Still, no one responded to him.

Xavier felt he had been waiting for a response for ages when, in truth, everything happened in the blink of an eye.

Winnie and Josiah did not answer him because they, too, had the same concern as Xavier.

They feared the person who crashed into them was Harold. Thus, they had no time to answer his questions.

Josiah was ready to drive the car away, but the collision had caused the entire car to be stuck in between a row of trees and the other car.

On top of that, the right tire had fallen into a pit by the side of the road. It was impossible for him to drive it away, and that realization left him livid.

Meanwhile, Winnie was momentarily stunned when she looked out of the car windows. Immediately after that, she knitted her brows and called out urgently, “Josiah! Josiah, calm down!”

Without turning to look at her, Josiah snapped, “How am I supposed to calm down?”

Xavier, on the other hand, gave up on waiting for an answer. “I’m going back to look for you guys!”

Winnie hurriedly stopped him. “There’s no need for that! It’s Mason and Greta. It’s their car!”

Before Xavier could even react, Josiah had already lost his cool. “What? Why did they knock into our car? Have they lost their minds?”

With that, he lifted his head and looked out of the window.

Just then, Greta had already gotten out of the car.

She had never met Josiah before, nor did she know Winnie was in that car when the vehicles collided.

It was not until she walked over to the other car that she realized who was in it. She exclaimed, “Ms. Garland? Why are you here?”

Winnie stared at Greta, her frown deepening. “I was about to ask you the same. Why did you ram into us?”

Greta did not know how to respond. “We didn’t do it on purpose. We encountered Harold’s men outside the hospital, and our car got shot, which caused problems with our brakes. Then, we received an order from Mr. Fairchild telling us to take this road to Yeringham. We didn’t want to cause you guys any delay, so we sped all the way here. Who would’ve known your car would be here the moment we exited the junction? I swear, Mason really did hit the brakes, but we were speeding so fast that we didn’t manage to stop in time. We would’ve slowed down if we knew you were ahead of us. Man… This is such a huge misunderstanding. You won’t cut our pay, will you, Ms. Garland?”

Winnie rolled her eyes at Greta. “Well, you should consider yourself lucky for not killing me. Otherwise, you two won’t get a single cent.”

When she finished her sentence, she turned to the phone and said, “There you go, Xavier. You better not come over. We should hurry on. There’s no time to lose.”

“All right. Actually, I just wanted to tell you they’ve caught up to you. You guys should hurry up,” Xavier said grimly.

“Okay,” responded Winnie.

Josiah, too, promised, “Don’t worry. We won’t fall behind.”

He hung up as soon as he finished speaking because holding the device while driving was a hassle.

The moment he put away the phone, he heard Winnie opening the car door.

around to look at her. “What

car, she said, “I’m going to have a word with them. Your forehead’s bleeding, by the way. You might want to clean

walked toward

getting out of the car, Greta quickly followed after her. “What’s wrong, Ms.

to check on my friend. Is he all right?”

well and made sure he’s not

Can you check on the rest to

dismissed, the window beside Christopher

the

frowned while gazing at him. “Are you coming back with us this time, or are you going to wait for the

me. From what I know, Xavier

was relieved to hear that from Christopher. “Of

Christopher grinned. “That’s great.”

soon as he finished speaking, Josiah urged, “Ms. Garland, we’re ready.

with “coming” before turning back to look

“See you

then, Greta walked over while dusting off the dirt on her hands, saying to Winnie, “I’ve placed some rocks under your car tire.

patted Greta on the shoulder. “Thank you so

Let me open the door for

stopped Greta. “It’s okay. You guys should get

that, Greta quickly got into the passenger seat without any further

meantime, Winnie watched their car leave before getting

been waiting by the door for her, helped her

help but complain, “This car is horrible on unpaved

with it. We’re already lucky that this car isn’t broken even

she said that, Josiah’s phone

it as soon as

came through. “I found a GPS tracker in my car. I’ve gotten rid of it. Do you have one in yours? You should quickly get rid of

asked with a frown, “Yours is a wired tracker, right? Was it placed in an obvious spot? I see nothing in this

really a tracker in the car, that means Harold has access to our whereabouts at any

Winnie said to

if you move it. Besides, it’s just a tracker. There might not be one in this lousy car. Even if there’s one, Harold might not have the guts to come after us. Moreover, it’ll take some time for them to catch up with us. We might even be on

not want Winnie to get hurt, either. Hence, he advised, “Don’t look for it, Winnie. Josiah’s right. Your arm

shall listen to you two,” Winnie answered half-heartedly, not wanting to argue with

call ended, she began searching

long for her to find a magnetic tracker

it out in a flash and

bumpy road ahead. Instead, he glanced at her through the rearview mirror and said exasperatedly, “No one can stop you from doing anything once you’ve put your mind to

coward? I wouldn’t be alive

that, she tossed the tracker into the

and smile. “Thanks to you, I feel much relieved. Do you remember the octopus that crawled into my shirt during the explosion at the dock? Guess what? I kept it. I wonder how it’s doing now. Once we get back, I’ll invite

“I thought you were going to talk about

I would’ve eaten it long ago if that’s what I wanted. Why would I be rearing it? Besides, you were the one who suggested I keep it as a

was at a loss for words. “You kept it just because I told

course. You’re Ms. Garland, after all. I’m just

Ordinary people won’t be able to hire an elite

an interesting way to put

making small talk. Just like that, three hours soon came

also switched from a dirt road

gave them a poor field of vision. Now that

“I knew it. Our lousy car is the slowest. Look. The two cars are way ahead of us. You’d better sit tight. It’s time I

that. The car Mason is driving has faulty brakes. He might be taken aback if you suddenly overtake him. Let’s not cause trouble

to show off my driving skills to you. Oh, do you see that building in front of us? The tallest one?

so conspicuous. It must be the tallest

developed, so there are very few buildings that have over twenty stories. That is already the tallest

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