17. Fast and Furious

Moreno and Ammy arrived, Ammy brought a big duffel bag and gave me a dress in the same color as her. Moreno and Jero also ended up wearing clothes of the same color… so we really are like twins, from afar. Hopefully this plan will work.

We got into our respective cars before the car started. I saw Jero set the GPS, the address that Moreno had given earlier. Leo's personal hangar, a noble man and also a handsome doctor my idol, used to be.. right now my head is too full and complicated for a love story.

"Put your seat belt on tight… hold on if you need to.. this gonna be a bumpy ride!" he said grinning. We faced a precarious situation, but for some reason Jero seemed to really enjoy all of this. He seemed to want a spectacular event to happen.

I glanced at the GPS screen in front of me.. it seems that the distance between this place and the hangar we are going to is not too far, plus we just need to go straight and in twenty minutes, Leo's hangar… turns out to be in the city center… and that makes me even more impressed. No! I'm not a material person… I'm just impressed with him being able to get it all in such a short amount of time.

I know his history, he doesn't come from a rich man like Ammy. Indeed, his parents are both nobles, but their economic condition is not very good. I know… I investigated it because I'm really a big fan of theirs… he and his family do live in a mansion… but it's far from luxurious. Their mansion is the legacy of their grandparents, who turned out to be a gambling hobby... depleting all of their assets, leaving only the dilapidated mansion.

Ammy also emphasized that Leo, looking for a scholarship to become a doctor, is a smart man...and a hard worker. As long as he took his medical education, he worked... like anything. Really anything, Ammy told me that she once walked into a coffee shop and it turned out that Leo is the waitress. Then once he went to an expensive distro .. and Leo became the sweeper. Ammy had thought that Leo quit his previous job, but it turned out that at that time he is on semester break...and took three jobs at once. He is a permanent waiter in a coffee shop, and part-time a sweeper in distribution, and a sweeper in a surgical clinic.

By the time Leo graduated, and of course in no time…and with an above-average GPA… he had already started his business. He sells a brand of women's cosmetics for problem skin..even though he is not a cosmetic expert..he is just a general practitioner graduate. But..the business is growing like a rocket. Maybe because of his handsome face..makes women interested in buying it.

After that, I heard he took another school, surgery medicine. A surgeon...and he already had his own clinic at that time, and his cosmetic brand had already reached the point of exporting abroad. Currently Leo only manages his business via cell phone… ah.. I know that from Ammy, of course.. because he often participates in charity events, last month I heard he is in Ethiopia.. for a humanitarian mission. He had renovated his ancestral mansion and made it very elegant, turning it into a luxurious medieval palace.

I am still daydreaming about Jero, when the car seemed to have been shot from behind. The sound is quite loud…but before that, I knew when this car is shot and it didn't make that noise…then what kind of bullet is fired now? Or a bazooka? I held on to the handle above my head tighter. Indeed, there are no bullets that penetrated, but the impact made this car almost sway.

Jero turned his car to the left…then accelerated again. He seemed to find another path and outwit.

"Looks like they broke the team too..which means…that brute…has a lot of money to hire them…and…he's so crazy about you…what's wrong with you Miss Diandra Roberts..to get drunk like this…drunk with you…" He mumbled like singing. Again he turned the car drastically. I almost screamed loudly and I might have fallen if I didn't hold on. Up ahead..there's a big container…and we almost hit it…but Jero swerved again at the last second.

I feel like I'm being a navigator in a fast and furious movie…minus, in reality this is a life and death gamble, plus several snipers who chase us everywhere we go.

"Oh hey!" Jero joked with a big smile, then he swooped down until the car tires squeaked…and turned around, after that he turned left drastically..we entered an apartment parking lot…and the road went up high with drastic lighting, then he crossed the parking lot to the end ..and when he is on the highway again he turned right…and went straight again.

"Where are we going? Huh? Aren't we lost?" I asked panicked. I wonder if Jero knows the way.

"Calm down..as long as you are with me, we will never get lost. We'll be there in just a hundred meters." He said casually, he even whistled.

Jero's words are true, before long, we entered a thick iron gate..and when our car honked twice from afar, the gate opened quickly…and the next second when the car is back it closed again. Are we safe? I looked back… the gate is closed… and there is no way… the sniper cars could get in.

Then I turned around and saw that there are already two other cars parked..I saw Ammy and Moreno hugging each other in front of their car.

I let out a long breath. I'm safe? Hopefully so.

"Are we there? So we're safe?" I asked Jero. I let go of my grip on the car handle…my hands even got scars…because I is holding the handle too tightly.

"It should be like that..." he replied casually again.

The car stopped, and as I got out Ammy hugged me.

"They are absolutely crazy, we are also followed until we got here, lucky Moreno used to drive in a middle eastern country." Ammy said in my arms, I winced. What's that got to do with it>

"There… you can go crazy and push your car to the limit…"

"Isn't that dangerous?" I mumbled disapprovingly at Moreno… he just chuckled.

"You can do it during the day...when you're in the middle of a vast desert...and if you don't speed up...you and your car can melt." He chuckled.

I just understood why the kind and thoughtful Moreno can speed up.

"Come in,. As soon as possible." Said Jero…and everyone agreed.

We immediately boarded a jet that had been parked. The door has been opened and there is a passenger ladder installed. There is no flight attendant to greet…and when they arrived at the top…the seat arrangement is much different, maybe this plane could only fit twenty passengers. Even at the back there is a large sofa with a table. This is truly a luxurious private plane.

"Hi… glad you finally got here safely… nice ride?" Leo asked…he extended his hand to Jero and Jero greeted him with a chuckle.

"A ride that's like a roller coaster...don't you think Di?" Jero turned to me, and I looked down, now their attention is all on me.

Then what should I do? I've been stealing glances at Leo ever since...and to be honest, right now my knees are weak. My mouth is stiff, and my eyes are blinking excessively. I must be really weird right now. Embarrassing.