Natalie pov.

The car curved down the road. I desperately gripped the armrest on the door, and in the reverse mirror I saw Vlad and Bubba in the back seat doing the same. Every time the car was about to hit the fire pier on the sidewalk, Gloria always turned the car back to the center of the road in time. I realized for the first time that the car does not necessarily go straight.

After a thrilling twenty-minute journey, we finally arrived at the entrance of a shopping mall, and stopped the car. The first thing Bubba did was to rush out of the car and run into the...