"No!" Ace screamed.
He threw caution to the wind, and leaped towards the car.
"Since you want to be with your beloved that much, maybe we should help speed things up."
The two men blocked his path, and before he could use the gun, tossed it out of his hand.
"Let me go!" He pleaded. "I have to get her. Whoever paid you, I'll pay double. I'll give you everything I have, I just need to save her please!"
The men laughed in his face. "Save her?" One said.
"You're going to be joining her soon," the other snickered.
They turned him around, and were about to throw him into the fire, when two successive shots fired from both ends of the road.
The men's hold on him broke, as they fell to their knees.
Ace didn't wait to investigate what had happened.
He jumped forward, and was about to push his hand through the fire to try and open the door, when someone pulled him from behind.