Chapter 42

Scarlett’s POV

I focus on the task ahead and use the nearest means to get to the other lane, where there driving away, which isn’t even a U-turn. It’s just a cleft in the pavement that is wide enough for me to squeeze through, and I floor it again, catching up to the truck in no time.

“It’ll squeeze my balls to wreck this baby, but we gotta do what we gotta do.” Gage barks and directs me on where to go. I pull up slightly to the side of the pickup as Gage prepares to hop on board. He then puts the call through to his head office, asking them to ping his location and come for backup. “It’s about to get pretty ugly pretty fast.”

With that, he leaps off the motorbike and unto the bed of the pickup.

I won’t be surprised to see some movie cameras around at this point.

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Gage’s POV

“Stay close,” I tell her before hopping off and into the moving car. That’s a move that could’ve well ended my life if I failed to execute it properly,