“Eeek!” Shane let out an ear-piercing shriek.
Tom’s face fell. “Mr. Shane!”
He was about to turn around when Bonnie appeared in front of him.
Her lips curled into a wicked grin when she met his gaze. “Weren’t you about to go down there and look for him? Worry not, I’m going to send you down as well.” Tom’s face was filled with fear instantly. Then, he kept taking steps back when he spoke.
“N-No.”
“Heh heh heh…” She sneered and snorted lightly. “I’m not asking.”
He tried to run, but she caught him. Twisting his wrist, she kicked his bottom squarely and booted him down there.
Tom’s miserable cries rose in the air. He rolled all the way down until he crashed into Shane.
“Ouch!” At first, Shane had scrambled to his feet, but he fell again when Tom rammed into him. It was so painful that he felt as if someone had broken his back.
Holding his waist, he kept groaning out of pain. His face was contorted with agony as well.
“I’m sorry, Mr. Shane. Are you okay?”
The slope wasn’t exactly steep. So, falling from the top of the tunnel wouldn’t have killed them.
With that said, both of their suits were littered with dust, making them look miserable.
Shane helped himself up with Tom’s support. Staring at Bonnie, who was standing on top of the tunnel, his eyes were filled with unbridled fury.
“Didn’t you say they were trapped in the tunnel and that they’d be buried with it soon enough? What’s the meaning of this? Why are they on the surface now? Care to explain?”
“I… Um…” Tom didn’t count on Bonnie and Ivor being this lucky.
‘I can’t believe they escaped such a dire situation. How am I supposed to explain it to Shane?
‘After all, I cut corners when I carried out the whole thing. Now, however, I’m exposed. So, how am I supposed to explain it?’
Shane was starting to see something now. In a matter of a second, he was pissed off.
“Cat got your tongue? Hurry up and spill it. I demand an explanation!”
Tom’s eyes got shifty as he lowered his head. He simply didn’t dare to say anything.
Shane’s face grew more forbidding as the second passed by. He was about to say something when he saw both Bonnie and Ivor coming down from the top of the tunnel. Both of them walked toward him, side by side.
Bonnie spoke leisurely as she
strolled toward him. “It’s fine if he
didn’t know how to tell you. I’m more
than happy to do it for him. I’m sure you don’t know about it yet. He spent billions of dollars on this
mining tunnel.
“Suffice it to say that he simply couldn’t bring himself to dig up the entire tunnel. So, he merely dug the front t part of it. He decided to use the soil to block our path and trap us in there, suffocating us.
“What he didn’t count on is that the workers dug an emergency recovery shaft. Fortune smiled upon us and showed us to that shaft. That’s how we managed to escape the tunnel in one piece.”
Then, she looked at Shane and said
leisurely, I’m sorry to have disappointed you, Shane. It’s just not our time yet. You went through such
a great deal of trouble, only to come up short of killing us.”
Shane felt the full brunt of her sarcasm.
He looked downright terrible. His face turned as red as blood. Turning around, he glared at Tom and his eyes turned red as well. He looked like he could throttle him.
“I can’t believe I placed that much faith in you. How dare you play me for a fool? Just wait and see. You’re going to pay for this!”
