Just when Emma was about to get out of the road, the car stopped. She quickly opened the door and jumped in.

“Drive as fast as you can,” she told the man inside. The car started and was out of there in seconds, leaving her assailants behind.

“Thank you so much,” Emma told the man whose face she couldn’t see clearly. “The man they were taking me back to was going to kill me.”

The man did not say anything. He kept driving fast until they were out of the forest area. Soon they reached a small town but the man kept driving. At some point, Emma wondered if she...