Family on Their Knees Heart Turned to Ice novel Chapter 1358

Bella slammed the steering wheel, her eyes going wide. "What? What the hell do you mean the brakes are gone?"

"I don't know!" the mercenary screamed over the radio. "They're just gone! We're losing control! Ms. Ward, we either ram the target vehicle right now to stop our momentum, or we veer off into the ditch and bail! If we bail, we are out of the op!"

Panic seized Bella. "You can't hit them yet! The cameras are still live! It's a dead giveaway! But if you bail, I lose half my crew! How am I supposed to breach the convoy without you?"

It was an absolute disaster. How could the tech fail right now?

The mercenary's voice rose to a terrified pitch. "Our speed is climbing! If you don't make a call in five seconds, we're all going to die! We signed up for a paycheck, not a suicide mission!"

Backed into a corner, Bella had no choice.

She couldn't risk the exposure.

"Fine! Abort! Ditch the car and get out of there!"

Bella hurled the radio onto the passenger seat with a scream of frustration.

Her luck was completely plummeting tonight. But with $1.2 billion on the line, there was no way she was aborting the entire mission.

She had to get her hands on Debbie. Period.

With her lead assault vehicle out of commission, her crew was down from ten men to six.

She was down on manpower. If she didn't introduce a chaotic external force, the heist was dead.

Without a second thought, Bella floored the gas pedal and aggressively swerved in front of the massive truck.

She was an exceptional driver, aggressive and precise. The heavy truck driver, forced to hit his brakes, assumed this was an angry brake-check from the near-miss a second ago.

The trucker was a decent guy. He was on a hands-free call with his wife, who always told him to drive safe and ignore road rage. He didn't retaliate; he just eased off the gas to keep his distance.

The trucker had no idea he was being weaponized.

By boxing in the heavy truck and forcing it to slow down, Bella created a massive moving barricade. Her remaining crew, driving ahead of the casino convoy, mirrored her tactic—they aggressively slowed down, boxing in the lead escort vehicle.