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Chapter 1615
The shop owner instinctively reached out to block the attack, and the knife cut through his palm. Although it slowed
down the force, it still stabbed into his stomach firmly.
Blood gushed out instantly, as the shop owner clutched his wound and collapsed.
The driver was shocked. When he saw the man going berserk and was about to stab the shop owner again, he
immediately reversed the car and lightly bumped into him." Are you leaving or not? Because I am!"
It was only then the man stopped and quickly got into the van.
Stella felt a chill down her spine. It was supposed to be a mere kidnapping, and there was no need to harm an
innocent person. The fact that the man was carrying a knife showed that he was a psychopath!
"Fuck, are you out of your mind?" the driver cursed, as he sped away from the scene. "Do you want to get the
police's attention or what?"
Follow on NovᴇlEnglish.nᴇt"The police are already coming after us." The man wiped the bloodstain with a piece of tissue from the knife and
threw it out of the car window. Then, he said coldly, "When we were paying for the items, that scumbag answered a
phone call and his expression immediately changed. He was trying to stall us for the police by saying he
undercharged us!"
The driver's face turned gloomy. "We agreed on using the drug, yet you chose to fucking attack him on the street
instead. You alerted the security guard, yet you just caused us another problem!"
The man's face remained expressionless, as he said, "Go in the opposite direction. The police are going to trace us
here. We can't go to the place we scouted earlier."
"Fuck!" The driver felt frustrated and turned the van around.
Keegan's heart sank.
The police did not take his suggestion and contacted the shop owner directly. The kidnappers were alarmed, and
they changed their original plan. Now, the police would most probably lose them, and Keegan had to find another
way to send them their location.
Just over ten minutes after the kidnapper's van had left, the police arrived at the scene. They saw the injured shop
owner, and it was only then the officer realized that it was not just an ordinary dispute he had assumed; the
kidnappers would really harm the hostages.
Fortunately, the staff in the shop managed to stop the bleeding in time, and the ambulance had arrived.
Consequently, the shop owner lived through the incident.
The police did not reveal much detail when they called the shop to ask about the van.
However, the shop owner had previously worked as an
auxiliary police officer when he was younger. When he saw the group of people entering his store, he noticed that
all of them were heavily dressed, and they also intentionally lowered their tone when they spoke. So, he could
sense that something was off about them. Then, when the police called to ask about the kidnapping case, he
became even more certain.
Follow on Novᴇl-Onlinᴇ.cᴏmSo, he came up with an excuse to go outside and check things out. When he talked to the driver, he noticed the
bloodstained shirt and a person in the backseat through the gap in the window.
He intended to stall the kidnappers, but he did not expect that they would be so vigilant.
Before the shop owner was taken away by the ambulance, he described to the police, "I couldn't really see the
faces of the driver and the man who was wearing a pair of white shoes. But I did see the man who was wearing a
cap clearly. He's probably around his forties, and he has a long scar behind his left ear that seems to extend from
the top of his head down. He has a very hostile-looking face.
"Oh, and I think there's something wrong with his eyes."
The police officer paused and asked, "His eyes? What's wrong with it?"
The shop owner shook his head, frowned, and thought for a few seconds before he said, "When he entered the
store, he asked me about the price of a pack of Marlboro Blue, and I told him. After they were done shopping and
went to check out, my employee was the one who scanned the items for them. But the price of that pack of
cigarettes came out different from what I had told him. He got very angry and said something to my employee."
"What did he say?"
"He said: 'You told me it was twelve dollars when I asked you just now. Why is it showing fourteen?'"
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