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“Not too bad,” he said. “The smaller trees and bushes saved us from a heavier impact. Still, it’s best to get out of this car.”
“Yeah...”
Groaning and moaning, I managed to crack open the door to my side.
Noah was already there, helping me out and steadying me on my feet.
A dull throbbing erupted on the side of my forehead. I gingerly touched the spot and felt a warm, stickiness coating my fingers.
A bright ray of light from Noah’s cellphone showed me glimpses of bushes and tree trunks all around us. He flashed the light on the ground, focusing on the deep tire tracks left by our car.
“We can follow these tracks to find our way back to the road,” said Noah.
“What about the car?” I asked, looking at the wreckage.
“We can’t do anything about it now,” said Noah. “My cellphone doesn’t have any network signals here. We might be able to call for help once we’re on the road.”
“Sounds like a plan.”
The cellphone’s flashlight provided us the direction to walk in, but the luminosity barely showed the stones and roots sticking out of the forest floor. Walking was already an effort but the added stumbles and falls nearly drove me to tears.
“We’re almost there,” Noah kept saying to encourage me but it was a good twenty minutes before we came onto the road.
The highway was completely deserted at this hour.
Taking my phone, I switched it on. The lit-up screen showed two thick cracks on it.At least, it’s still working, I thought, checking the time.
“Do you have a signal?” Noah asked, raising his phone to the side.
“No,” I said, my voice thick with disappointment. “I’m sorry about this whole mess.”
“You drove to New York City just fine,” said Noah in a grim tone. Under the glow of the streetlight, his face looked deadly serious. “Everything was fine on the way to the diner. Something went wrong after we got back in again.”
“Yeah,” I said. “At first, the steering was being troublesome and then, the brakes stopped working. I don’t understand why the car suddenly malfunctioned like that.”
“It was Civella.”
“Civella?”
“I’m sure he sent someone to tail us,” Noah hissed. “They tampered with our car when we were inside the diner. I’m sure of it.”
“Someone definitely tampered with the car but I doubt it was Civella.”
“How can you be sure?”
“If Civella wanted to hurt us, he wouldn’t bother to let us go,” I said. “He also threatened me in a sort of sexual way but never hinted on a desire to attack me physically. Besides, there’s no one around here. If it was him, we’d already be getting our ass kicked by his men.”
Noah looked angry but didn’t argue.
“So, it was someone else.”
“It could’ve been one of the Becketts,” I said with a shrug. “I threatened to destroy them. Maybe they’re taking precautions.”
Noah raked his fingers through the thick strands of his dark hair. “It’s Luke. He did the same thing to Corey’s bike. The vehicle acted up when he was least expecting it.”
Anger coursed through me. I’d been such a fool to think he was a friend.
“Milla,” Noah’s gentle voice made me look at him. “You’re shaking. Are you cold?”
