67: Commander Piper

“Why are we waiting here? What happened?” Carla asked Piper, who was leaning against the hood of her parked car. When Piper stopped the car in the middle of the nowhere a little ahead of the exit they took from the Highway, Carla thought there was something wrong with the car – but instead of checking on it – Piper stood against the hood of the car while doing something on her phone. This made Carla curious, so she stepped out of the car as well.

Piper squinted her eyes under the sun as she glanced at Carla. Her eyes fell on the other car parked just behind them – ut none of the men exited that car. She heaved a sigh, “We can’t go further than this,” Piper informed.

Carla knitted her eyebrows, “What do you mean we can’t go further than here? Why did we even get here? And why can’t we go further, again?” Carla frustratedly asked with her eyebrows screwed together.

“If we drove ahead of this point, we are definitely going to get killed by Mateo’s men. No one can pass this point excep