When Love Is a Lie

Chapter 205 This Time, Will Let You Off

Dark clouds named meshes as tender rumbled in the distance. Damian gripped the wheel of the Black SUV, the

white hurtling along the winding mountain

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Whitney at rigidly beside him, her hands and feet still bond, her pale face betraying the tear and unease swirling

within her. The seather pressed her firmly gthe seat, acmel irony considering it was meant to pontect her.

| Damian, tem yourself in,” she urged, her trembling voice edining in the car. “You can still start over.”

“gator?” bamian’s lips curled into a mocking smick. “What you really mean is that i wantdead.”

He knew all too well that the crimes be hati mitted weir unforgivable. Their was in “starting nver” for lim

“Do you want to live your life onetantly on the ni, hiding in the shadowd-

“And whose Laudi is that?” he snapped, histone laced with fury. His bloodshot eyes darted toward her, brimming

with houility.

“Donald have forced Noel to hand eyes the evidence, but you had in escape and mineverything!” Damian's

kosicles whitened as he gripped the wheel tighter.

When be found out she had called somever else, Bandai liumediately realized they couldn't stay in their original

location amelinger. Noel was cunning and

nables-he world track them down in totime

Noel was faster than he hard

Damian quickly contacted Sasdrift’s representative andanangelaflight with a layover in Tessonia bedore heading

to Ardania But Noel was incipated, throwing everthing into disamay nmer again

The car sped faster, causing Whitney to shift uncomfortably in lies seat. “No matter how far you in, the law will

catch up with you. Even if it doesn’t, you'll live the best of your life in tear, never seeing the light of dim.”

Damian let out a sinister chuckle. “As long as | have you with me, it won't feel like a complete loss

suddenly, his gaze darkened, and a dangerous le ticketed in his eyes. Looking into the rearview mirror, he

laughed bitterly. “He reallyalone for you.”

Whomey tumed, preting through the back window. ABlack-Wagon was relentlessly tailing them. It was Noel

Her chest tightened, and tears welled up in her eyes.

“Moved, are you” Daman sneered, his hand reaching into his pocket..

The drivers side window rolled down swiftly. Before Whitney could reas, Damian extended his arm out the

window and pulled the trigger

A de atering gunshot rang out, louder than fireworks, leaving her ears ringing. She barely had tto process

what was happening before she realized what Damian held in his hand

“Damian, you're insane! He's your cousin!” she screamed in horror.

Hergaredated to the rearview mirror, where Noel's car swerved sharply to the side, narrowly avoiding the shot

before speeding up

Damian leaned out and tied another shot. The crack echoed through the altas Noel jerked the steering wheel,

the bullet shattering his side mirro

Whitney knew Darslan was skilled at shooting-a hobby he had once excelled at. Now he held a gun and Noel was

defenseless, the situation was far from a game

Desperation surged through her as she frantically struggled against the ropes binding her hands and feet. They

were too tight-escape seemed impossible.

Her eyes locked on his right hand gripping the steering wheel Without hesitation, she launched herself at

Damian, slamming her head against his hand with all her strength.

The impact sent the wheel veering sharply to the side, and the carcareened dangerously toward the cliff's edge.

Damian barely had tto curse as he yanked the steering wheel hard in the opposite direction

The tire screeched against the road, their porcing sound echoing in the air.

Just as one wheel nearly slipped off the cliff, the car was pulled back from the edge

In the black-Wagon trailing behand, Noel's body went rigid as he witnessed the scene unfold. His knuckles

whitened, gripping the steering wheel so tightly in seemed it might shutter under the pressure

“Are you trying to get yourself killed?” Damianbellowed angrily.

Before the echo of his words faded, the sight ahead froze him—amassive inkbaneling straight toward them.

Whitney gasped, instinctively squeezing her eyes shut.

Damian's foot slammed down on the brake, but nothing happened. The brakes had!

Cursing under his breath, he wrenched the steering wheel again, narrowly dodging the track.

But the car was now hurtling down the winding mountain road at over 200 miles per hour, with no brakes. The

implications were clear.

Whitney, having sensed the natural jerks, vosced her fear. “Did the brakes fall?”

Damiandide’t respond, his eyes fixed firmly ahead a flicker of resolve passed through his gaze.

Then, suddenly, be tomed to her, a trace of muschief tugging at Is lips.

“This time, I'll let you off.”

Whitney stared at him, stunnedadwelledd.

Without warning, Damian unfastened her seatbelt and showed her out of the car with fer

Her scream caught in her throat as die watched him Hash a final, faint seule.

Her body atched through cair before crashing onto the slope beside the road.

The steep terrain sent her tumbling down. Sharp stones, branches, and other jagged objects scraped against

het, each jolt seisling waves of pain thoonghher body.

“Whitney!”

A figure leaped toward her, wrapping het in a protective embrace

As she raised her head in shock, Noel's Tace cinto view.

The two of them tumbled uncontrollably down the slope, locked together in a desperate descent.