The Contracted Son-in-law

Chapter Twenty-eight

At the edge of a silent riverside, the only sounds breaking the stillness were the soft lap of waves against the shore and the distant rumble of an approaching truck. Ryan was the person behind the wheel.

The truck came to a halt beside his parked car, where his uncle was already waiting.

As soon as Ryan parked the truck, he alighted from there.

"How did it go?" his uncle asked as Ryan pulled off his mask.

"Mission accomplished," Ryan responded, urgency in his voice as he headed straight for the truck’s back.

He began unloading the shipment he had hijacked from the cops, who had been transporting it to a "secure location," the commissioner had announced in a press conference earlier, where it would be stashed.

Thanks to Emma’s tip, he had known exactly when and where the cops would be transporting the shipment, and he had pulled off the heist by outsmarting and overpowering them, all while keeping his face hidden behind a mask.

"Are you just going to stand there, or do I need to spel