Chapter 1119
Luna slammed on the brakes.
The violent jolt threw Natalie forward and violently back into her seat. Her neck felt like it had snapped, pain radiating through her spine as the world spun into a dizzying blur.
She shook her head hard to clear the ringing, her eyes slowly tracking toward the window. The car that had just tried to obliterate them had smashed through the barrier and plummeted into the freezing river.
Recovering from the shock, Luna twisted around in her seat, her voice tight with panic. “Are you okay? Did you get hurt? I had to crank the wheel too hard.”
Natalie shook her head, trying to steady her breathing. “I’m fine. What about you, Luna? Are you hurt?”
Luna rubbed her arm, wincing slightly, but it was nothing serious. “I’m okay. But I can guarantee that guy was gunning for us. That bastard was trying to kill us.”
Luna pulled out her phone and dialed 911, requesting both the police and an ambulance.
Even if the driver was an assassin, she couldn’t just let him drown.
They had survived unscathed, but the hitman had driven straight into the river. The sub-zero temperatures would make sure he suffered enough before help arrived.
Natalie took a few moments to let the whiplash subside. Once the throbbing in her neck dulled, she pushed the door open and stepped out.
It was late on a holiday night. The roads were completely deserted.
The few cars that did pass had no idea what had happened and didn’t bother to stop.
Natalie looked back at Luna. “Pull the car over to the shoulder and wait here. I’m going to see what’s going on down there.”
The river wasn’t particularly fast-moving, but it was deep. If the driver couldn’t break a window, being trapped in that freezing water was an automatic death sentence.
“Don’t go near the edge!” Luna warned. “It’s dangerous. He literally just tried to murder us.”
Natalie shook her head firmly. “It’s fine! He’s not a threat to us anymore. He’s fighting for his own life down there. He can’t touch me.”
As she stepped forward, a blast of icy wind hit her face. She shivered, pulling her down jacket tighter around herself. On a night like this, plunging into sub-zero water was a waking nightmare.
Natalie walked to the edge of the bridge, staring through the shattered guardrail. She inhaled sharply. The impact must have been massive for the car to tear through the metal so cleanly.
“Help! Help me! Somebody, please!”
The frantic screams were quickly swallowed by the howling wind, barely cutting through the freezing air.
Natalie leaned over and shouted back, “I’ll pull you up, but only if you tell me who hired you to kill me!”
The man thrashing in the water
froze at the sound of her voice. In
just a few minutes, the agonizing chill of the water had him violently convulsing his voice trembling. uncontrollably.
Hearing Natalie was like finding a lifeline in the abyss.
“I… I don’t know what you’re talking about! My brakes gave out! I swear I wasn’t trying to hurt anyone! Lady, you’ve got it all wrong! Please just put me up or call an ambulance! I’m going to freeze to death!”
The man had managed to force his head through a shattered window. His forehead
was split open, the blood already freezing into a gruesome crust.
The door was completely jammed, and the window opening was only wide enough for his head. The car was sinking rapidly.
He was utterly terrified. In his wildest nightmares, he never imagined her driver would have the reflexes to dodge a direct hit, leaving them completely uninjured.
Meanwhile, he was the one trapped in an icy tomb. The sheer unfairness of it infuriated him.
Natalie’s voice was devoid of any sympathy. “If you refuse to name who hired you, then I have no reason to pull you out. Enjoy the ice bath.”
The man’s jaw dropped.
This woman was a monster.
He was on the brink of death, and she was extorting a confession out of him!
“Natalie, you are a psycho! Pull me up right now!”
Natalie raised an eyebrow. Staring down at the rapidly submerging car, her eyes were chips of pure ice. “Why would I save the man who just tried to murder me?”