Chapter 114

Chapter 114

Four black vans thundered onto the street like a posse riding in at high noon.

They skidded to a stop, pinning Jasmine's limousine from the front and rear.

About twenty men poured out, each one armed to the teeth and hiding behind masks.

Their leader-burly, tatted up, and mean as a rattlesnake-stepped right up to the window, pounding on the glass with his fist.

"Both of you get out, or we'll blow this tin can to pieces!" He snarled.

Inside the limo, Jasmine's face went pale. The driver looked just as rattled.

"Driver," came Alex's calm voice.

"Y-yes?" the driver stammered, too stunned to keep his voice steady.

"I hear this car's sound system can rattle bones. Mind turnin' it up to full blast?" Alex leaned back, eyes half- lidded like he hadn't a care in the world.

The driver blinked. "What?"

'Is this fella crazy?' he thought. 'Bullets are spraying outside, and he wants music?'

"Classical, if you've got it," Alex added, letting his eyes fall closed.

Jasmine watched him, her own fear momentarily replaced by curiosity.

Then she looked at the driver, speaking softly but with iron in her tone. "Well? You heard the man. Play it."

Outside, gunfire echoed like a hailstorm on a tin roof.

The driver's heart clanged in his chest like a broken bell.

'First the crazy man, now Miss Jasmine? They both lost it, or what?'

But something in his gut told him to follow orders.

Swallowing hard, he reached for the stereo.

out a grand symphony, each note sweeping through the cabin

fingers trembled, turning the volume to

glance in the

sat there with a lazy smile,

his shoulder as her eyes gently

overwhelming sense of peace, safety, and belonging. 'Courage isn't about not being scared; it's about seeing something else as more important than fear,' the

pinging off the armored plating, he found himself

breath he didn't know he was holding and

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his eyes, he whispered a final curse at

the masked gunmen

was blasting

hitmen lowered

spat on the ground. "What in

teeth in a cruel

early grave." He

it! Bust open that car! Afterward, you can have your fun with the woman

in the group. "And the man?

leader shrugged. "Hell if I care. Just

Suddenly, the tension shattered.

around and drew his gun-painting

into you?" the leader

sweat pouring down his temples. His

curled into a slow,

folks are no more than puppets once the strings are in

The shot came fast.

jerked back, blood spraying

arc.

toppled with a thud, eyes

are you doing?!" one of the others cried, terror in

blink, another mercenary turned his

trigger,

ceased as if the

the

of them opened his mouth, trying to speak, and another bullet cut

unspoken rule was clear: whoever

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