innocent people up there.”

“If you try to attack, they’ll only kill Mrs. Marshdon. They have her too. She and I were to be collateral so you would step aside and let them wreak their carnage,” explains Angela.

Doug stops the car and looks over his shoulder at the dirt road behind him and then ahead toward the pavement and suggests, “Take my car to town. Get help if you can. I’m going back. I need to do that for my workers and Mrs. Marshdon.”

“Be careful!” yells Angela as she takes to the driver’s seat while Doug begins to jog up the road, back toward the project site.

Angela tears onto the pavement with screeching tires and makes her way into town. Immediately, she goes to the Town Hall. She is sure that whatever...

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