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.

speakers roared to life, pouring out a grand symphony, each note

turning the volume to the

glance in the

there with a lazy smile, soaking in the

resting her head on his shoulder as

belonging. 'Courage isn't about not being scared; it's about seeing

bullets pinging off the armored plating, he found

was holding and muttered, "If I'm goin'

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he whispered a final curse

masked gunmen paused,

meant to pepper with bullets was blasting orchestral music like it

of the hitmen lowered his

the

teeth in a cruel

an early grave." He raised his

that car! Afterward, you can have your fun with the

group. "And the man? Can

I care. Just do

Suddenly, the tension shattered.

of the masked men spun around and drew

you?" the leader

gunman was shaking, sweat pouring down his temples. His finger

Alex's lips curled into a slow,

more than puppets once the strings are in the

The shot came fast.

back, blood spraying onto the pavement in

arc.

with a thud,

of the others

blink, another mercenary turned his weapon on the

squeezed the trigger, and dropped

ceased as if the world itself had gone

the ground,

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

was

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