Hesitation

Chapter Two Hundred And Forty-Nine

Maya eventually turned the car off the road and unto a side road. She drove slowly and steadily down the road, the tires crushing waste beneath it as it rolled on.

The night was a dark one. With the moon gone on vacation behind the stormy clouds.

Maya had to turn on the car's headlights. It illuminated the path in front of them, and the car picked up pace.

Maya was grateful that there was no downpour or else the roads would have been worse.

She was not used to this part of the city. Infact, it irked her to even be in a place like this.

Normally, she had no business in this area but she'd had no other choice.

Time and again, she had told that little fool, Vanny, to move out of the area and into a better part of the city.

He never listened but somehow, Maya was grateful that he hadn't.

Vanny was the truck driver who had been a part of the siphoning operation in Romero.

For days now, the police had no idea where he was and poor Gary was still the only o