"Shut up and drive!" the thug snarled, leaning forward menacingly. "York sent you to do a job. Didn't he tell you to follow our orders?"
The sheer violence in his eyes terrified Natalie into silence.
She swallowed her protests, forcing a subservient tone. "Can't I at least arrange a different car for you when we get closer? I can't just disappear for two days. My husband is going to ask questions."
"If I lie, he'll find out immediately. Why are you in such a rush to leave? Are you running from something?"
The ringleader glared at her. "Stop asking questions you don't want the answers to. You take us where we tell you to go, or York is going to have a serious problem with you. And you know exactly what he's capable of."
Natalie gripped the steering wheel, her mouth snapping shut.
These men had clearly committed a massive crime. They needed her to drive them out of the city to avoid security checkpoints and surveillance cameras.
York was going to get her killed.
That monster!
She cursed York with every fiber of her being.
The flawless pride she had cultivated for thirty years was currently being trampled into the dirt by his sadistic games.
After driving in tense silence for several miles, a sea of flashing red and blue lights appeared on the horizon. A massive police blockade had been set up across the highway, with uniformed officers thoroughly inspecting every passing vehicle.
Traffic cops? Here?
No, they wouldn't set up a blockade like this in the middle of nowhere.
They were looking for fugitives.
The road had been completely clear on her way out here. The sudden police presence combined with her passengers' frantic need to flee painted a horrifyingly clear picture.

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The readers' comments on the novel: After I Stopped Loving Him (Isabella and Ethan)
I will be devastated if Isabella and Ethan will get back together. Please, writer, Isabella deserves Harold....
Author, please get your characters names right. You always messing them up!...
I wish Harold will win Isabella's heart. I was so sad when Isabela was taken for granted coldly and cruelly by her supposed to be husband, and trapped,mocked and humiliated non stop by Natalie. This was so cruel, both don't deserve Isabela' forgiveness I wish for a happy ending between Isabela and Harold, he has the right to be happy after the long wait....
Frankly, the story initially was going quite good and the pacing was just right. unfortunately after Ethan got the dream of his past life, the story has been going in circles. Ethan's spouting the same nonsense every time he sees Isabella, they both have same conversations over and over. The authors monologue too has been the same for almost 400 chapters. Irrespective of which character the writing the just a repetition of what someone had gone through in the past and what made a certain character feel the emotions. York got introduced in 800 chapters yet nothing significant happened till date. Isabella is soft with Harold and kind of disgusted with Ethan, yet it is not entirely clear with whom she might end up. If she stays single i am fine with it but the story is clearly about Isabella and Ethan so almost 1000 chapters without seeing any progress in their relationship is frustrating. Except for being blindly in love and few aggressive instances with Isabella, Ethan actually isnt a bad person so i am fine if he can win her back. Even though Harold is coming off as a good second lead, i am somehow unable to warm upto him. Even the bad people in the story are not really facing any real consequences. I hate Jackson for his hypocrisy. I hate Jordan and Natalie for their self-righteouness and selfishness. I also hate Deborah, except when she is handing it out to Natalie. I am almost on the verge of dropping this story....
Why are they acting like kids 🤣😭...
Ethan is actually not that bad if we take out his blind love for Natalie...