Chapter 517

“Don’t worry, we’ll get this over with swiftly. If everything checks out, you’ll be free to go,” the traffic cop assured. His gaze then drifted towards the van’s trunk.

It was quite spacious, with four cardboard boxes stowed inside.

“What’s in those boxes?” the cop asked.

Thalassa’s heart leaped into her throat at his question.

Although it was a van, it was only supposed to seat five.

Four children, two adults and the driver. They were clearly overcapacity.

If the cop found out, they could have been in serious trouble, possibly even alerting Lysander.

They would have been sitting ducks.

Evelyn’s face also paled.

Just as Thalassa and Evelyn were at the peak of their anxiety, the young driver answered nonchalantly, “Oh, those are farm-fresh eggs I bought for my kids back home.

to check that,”

were they going to do?

heart pounded, and her palms broke out in a

the vehicle, and opened the trunk and one of the boxes.

was

glance, the driver moved

run a DUI test,” the

hand relaxed on the box, and he

the DUI test, the cop

man drove away.

away

she dared not relax, fearing that any sign of ease would have raised suspicion, and they would have been pursued.

driver pulled over and opened the trunk and the

out of the boxes. Their faces

we do good? We weren’t discovered, right?” Dorian asked Thalassa, his cherubic face

had done their best to mitigate the

eyes welled up, but she held back her tears and nodded, “Yes, you did very well. Come and

the children in the boxes when she told him there was a checkpoint

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