The side collision had caused the door on Josiah’s side to be dented inward. Thankfully, the passengers in the back seats seemed to be fine.
However, the impact was so powerful that Rachel almost fell off her seat. Winnie helped her up while asking Josiah, “Are you okay? Are you injured?”
Josiah had managed to stop the car, but his head had still slammed on the steering wheel.
“D*mn it! What on earth is going on?” he cursed under his breath, feeling the massive bump on his head.
Their situation was so chaotic that no one bothered to reply to Xavier.
Subsequently, Xavier panicked more when he did not know what was going on.
Soon, his anxious voice rang out again. “Talk to me! What happened to you guys? Did Harold’s men catch up to you?”
Still, no one responded to him.
Xavier felt he had been waiting for a response for ages when, in truth, everything happened in the blink of an eye.
Winnie and Josiah did not answer him because they, too, had the same concern as Xavier.
They feared the person who crashed into them was Harold. Thus, they had no time to answer his questions.
Josiah was ready to drive the car away, but the collision had caused the entire car to be stuck in between a row of trees and the other car.
On top of that, the right tire had fallen into a pit by the side of the road. It was impossible for him to drive it away, and that realization left him livid.
Meanwhile, Winnie was momentarily stunned when she looked out of the car windows. Immediately after that, she knitted her brows and called out urgently, “Josiah! Josiah, calm down!”
Without turning to look at her, Josiah snapped, “How am I supposed to calm down?”
Xavier, on the other hand, gave up on waiting for an answer. “I’m going back to look for you guys!”
Winnie hurriedly stopped him. “There’s no need for that! It’s Mason and Greta. It’s their car!”
Before Xavier could even react, Josiah had already lost his cool. “What? Why did they knock into our car? Have they lost their minds?”
With that, he lifted his head and looked out of the window.
Just then, Greta had already gotten out of the car.
She had never met Josiah before, nor did she know Winnie was in that car when the vehicles collided.
It was not until she walked over to the other car that she realized who was in it. She exclaimed, “Ms. Garland? Why are you here?”
Winnie stared at Greta, her frown deepening. “I was about to ask you the same. Why did you ram into us?”
Greta did not know how to respond. “We didn’t do it on purpose. We encountered Harold’s men outside the hospital, and our car got shot, which caused problems with our brakes. Then, we received an order from Mr. Fairchild telling us to take this road to Yeringham. We didn’t want to cause you guys any delay, so we sped all the way here. Who would’ve known your car would be here the moment we exited the junction? I swear, Mason really did hit the brakes, but we were speeding so fast that we didn’t manage to stop in time. We would’ve slowed down if we knew you were ahead of us. Man… This is such a huge misunderstanding. You won’t cut our pay, will you, Ms. Garland?”
Winnie rolled her eyes at Greta. “Well, you should consider yourself lucky for not killing me. Otherwise, you two won’t get a single cent.”
When she finished her sentence, she turned to the phone and said, “There you go, Xavier. You better not come over. We should hurry on. There’s no time to lose.”
“All right. Actually, I just wanted to tell you they’ve caught up to you. You guys should hurry up,” Xavier said grimly.
“Okay,” responded Winnie.
Josiah, too, promised, “Don’t worry. We won’t fall behind.”
He hung up as soon as he finished speaking because holding the device while driving was a hassle.
The moment he put away the phone, he heard Winnie opening the car door.
He quickly turned around to look at her. “What are you doing?”
As Winnie got out of the car, she said, “I’m going to have a word with them. Your forehead’s bleeding, by the way. You might want to clean it up.”
With that, she walked toward the other car.
Seeing Winnie getting out of the car, Greta quickly followed after her. “What’s wrong, Ms. Garland?”
“I’m going to check on my friend. Is he all right?” answered Winnie while striding forward.
“Yep! We’ve protected him well and made sure he’s not the slightest bit injured,” Greta said proudly.
Winnie nodded. “I’m going to have a word with him. Can you check on the rest to see if they need your help?”
Once Greta was dismissed, the window beside Christopher rolled down.
He stuck his head out of the window and asked, “Everything all right?”
“Yep.” Pausing briefly, Winnie frowned while gazing at him. “Are you coming back with us this time, or are you going to wait for the organization’s arrangements?”
Christopher paused momentarily before speaking. “That depends if there’s a space for me. From what I know, Xavier has arranged for a chopper. Will there be enough space for me, too?”
Winnie was relieved to hear that from Christopher. “Of course, there’s a spot for you.”
Christopher grinned. “That’s great.”
As soon as he finished speaking, Josiah urged, “Ms. Garland, we’re ready. Shall we leave?”
Winnie quickly turned around and replied with “coming” before turning back to look at Christopher, uttering, “I’ll get going, then.”
Christopher nodded. “See you later.”
Right then, Greta walked over while dusting off the dirt on her hands, saying to Winnie, “I’ve placed some rocks under your car tire. It should be able to move later.”
Winnie patted Greta on the shoulder. “Thank you so much. Tell Mason to drive carefully. Safety first.”
“Don’t worry, Ms. Garland. Here. Let me open the door for you.”
Winnie stopped Greta. “It’s okay. You guys should get going. Let’s not waste any time.”
Hearing that, Greta quickly got into the passenger seat without any further ado.
In the meantime, Winnie watched their car leave before getting into hers.
Josiah, who had been waiting by the door for her, helped her to close the door.
After getting into the driver’s seat, he could not help but complain, “This car is horrible on unpaved roads. See. They’re almost out of our sight.”
“Just make do with it. We’re already lucky that this car isn’t broken even after that collision,” replied Winnie.
As she said that, Josiah’s phone suddenly rang.
He took it out and answered it as soon as he saw Xavier’s name on the screen.
Once the call was connected, Xavier’s voice came through. “I found a GPS tracker in my car. I’ve gotten rid of it. Do you have one in yours? You should quickly get rid of it.”
“Huh?” Josiah scanned the interior and asked with a frown, “Yours is a wired tracker, right? Was it placed in an obvious spot? I see nothing in this car except for a few decorations. I can’t find it without help from any equipment.”
If there’s really a tracker in the car, that means Harold has access to our whereabouts at any time. This is bad.
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