Chapter 49 - Trust Me (1/2)

Halia's taxi soon pulled up next to a familiar car parked under a tree.

It was Jackson's.

Halia had definitely arrived at the right place...

Halia paid the taxi driver and quickly got out of the car. In front of her was a path that led to a little cabin. She slowly approached, hiding behind a tree to check that the coast was clear as she got closer.

There was no one in sight.

Halia walked over to the cabin and peeked in through the window.

As she looked in, she quickly spotted Jackson sitting inside, surrounded by a bunch of tools. There was no one else with him.

What was he doing?

Halia wiped the window a little and tried to look carefully at what was happening inside the cabin. That was when she noticed the vest on Jackson's body.

Immediately, her heart began to pound and her palms got sweaty.

”It's a bomb,” she whispered to herself.

On Jackson's chest, there was a timer. The number on it now read '22'.

Halia immediately called Sean, ”Jackson has a bomb strapped to his chest. There's no one else around. I'm going in to help him defuse it.”

”Don't act recklessly. If you are unsure about something, immediately leave. I will call the SWAT team right now.”

”We don't have time. There are only 22 minutes left! We are 30 minutes from downtown.”

Halia then hung up the phone and ran straight into the cabin without hesitation.

As soon as the door flew open, Jackson looked up in shock.

”Halia, what are you doing here?” he asked. She was the last person he wanted to see.

Halia immediately knelt down beside the man and started looking at the wires on his body. He had already undone a few screws and cut 2 wires, but the timer was still ticking.

”There's one wire left,” she said as she scanned her eyes across the bomb in front of her.

Jackson nodded as she looked at the serious woman in front of him. Halia's hair was tied up, but she was so close that he could still smell the shampoo from her hair. It was oddly comforting.

Halia carefully ran her hand across the wires on Jackson's body and tried to trace where each one was connected.

The timer continued to tick. It had now reached '17'.