Family on Their Knees Heart Turned to Ice novel Chapter 1359

Elias Ashford suspected nothing. He simply told his driver to maintain a safe distance and stay the course.

Meanwhile, Bella was screaming into her phone. "Jaxson! Are you in or not? We are seconds away from the Crossroads Interchange! If I don't hit them here, the operation is dead, and you won't get a single cent of your final payout!"

"I'm in! I'm in!" Jaxson shouted back, equally frantic. "I bypassed the firewall! The grid goes dark on your mark! But I can only hold it for ten minutes before the system auto-reboots! You have a ten-minute window! Go!"

Ten minutes?

It was dangerously tight, but it was all she had. She had to take the shot.

"Syncing clocks," Bella snapped, her eyes locked on the road. "Execute the blackout in exactly five minutes."

Calculating their current speed, five minutes would put them dead center of the Crossroads Interchange—the most lethal chokepoint on the route.

She hung up the phone. Total focus took over.

She counted down the seconds, her eyes darting between the road and the clock on her dash.

At the three-minute mark, she grabbed the radio. "Listen up! The second I give the word, your vehicle rams their tail car off the asphalt! My team will coordinate with the truck!"

She had completely integrated the innocent truck driver into her kill strategy. She lacked the mass and the muscle, so she was going to use a forty-ton battering ram.

The timing had to be flawless. Once Jaxson confirmed the blackout, she would unleash pure, unchecked violence.

Trembling, she turned her head to the right. The guard sitting next to her had been decapitated. His body was a mangled, unrecognizable horror.

The carnage happened in a fraction of a second. Lucas was frozen in shock, his brain unable to process the nightmare.

He hadn't seen what happened to the guard next to Debbie. All he saw was something round and heavy launch from the front passenger seat and fly into the back.

It landed with a wet thud on the dead guard's lap.

Lucas stared at it. It was a human head. Blood was still spraying from the severed neck, the eyes locked in a wide, frozen stare of terror.

It was Elias Ashford. The legendary broker had been completely decapitated.