June 1999, Gloucestershire, England.

The crowd in front of Kingswood Electronics was huge considering it was time to finish off the office hour for the employees. The crowd was packed, but among them, a couple would catch anyone's eyes easily with their presence.

You have to admit, it is rare to see such a perfect couple nowadays.
You'll be even more surprised if you hear that they are married and are the parents of a 7 years old daughter.
Though at first glance, they both look like college students, in reality, they both celebrated their twenty-ninth birthday last year and just finished their university life and started their career not long ago.

Michael Walden is a strikingly young man, almost six feet tall with curly hair and bright eyes. He is very handsome and has a constant confident smile on his lips as if nothing in this world can falter that. There is an irresistible attraction in his feature, but those who know him will tell you that his brain is sharper than his face.

You can't avoid Debby in the brain department too. She can easily compete with her husband in the talent part. But her beauty will surely overshadow anything in the way. The long blond hair or deep blue eyes with an ocean of depth in them can make anyone speechless for time being.
Her thin lips, nose, small forehead, and round face are like any art created by a great sculpture.
Her five feet five and a half inches body is a perfect match for her husband beside her.

Though both of them had enough wealth to toy with the opposite gender, they never had any intention or need to do so. Both are very much loyal and sincere to one another. As a couple, they both are very much happy within their little household.

They started this relationship in school life. You can tell, they were "high school sweethearts". People say the relationship of early life doesn't linger on, but both of them proved it wrong. Understanding and compromising mentality made them such great partners that they can easily mend their differences with nice and open-hearted communication.

God created the perfect pair for every human in the world and each people is in search of the right one, but very few people get that. Michael and Debby are two of those lucky people. It didn't take time to realize the truth, so both of them were ready to embrace life together from the beginning.

So when Michael turned 21, they didn't waste any more time and exchanged vows on his birthday when there was no legal objection regarding the age.
And within one year, their life has been blessed with a little princess.

But it will be wrong if we call their relationship only romance. Both of them are extraordinary in their field. They both entered oxford university with a full scholarship, finished their study in computer engineering. Not only extraordinary results, but in this advancing field of the twentieth century, they both made some remarkable inventions, so they were getting started to be recognized as emerging computer scientists.
How could they manage to maintain such a career with a little child in the house was a miracle.

They were offered such lucrative job offers even before their study has ended. But none of them surrendered to the lust trap, rather they persisted, finished up their study, finished their doctorate. And then found a job they liked.

Kingswood electronics is one of the largest and most famous companies in the country. To get the Walden couple as their own, they not only just had to offer a fat paycheck but also had to agree on various terms and conditions this couple placed along with the condition of letting them work independently.
It has been one and half years already, but both of them already advanced Kingwood electronics in different fields ahead of others.

After a long day, both of them just now left the office building in the late summer afternoon. Avoiding the crowd, both of them went to the parking lot and climbed up in their Toyota car. The company offered them expensive car chauffeur but none of them agreed to that. This car contained many memories of their struggling life when they bought it.

Sitting on the driving seat, Michael smiled towards Debby starting the ignition. Seeing Debby returning the smile, he placed a small kiss on her lips and pressed the gear releasing the hand brake. Slowly overtaking the other cars, their Toyota car left the parking lot.
None of them knew that they have been being watched from the black Chevy van parked a few yards away.

Two men were inside the van. The driver was huge in body beside his shorter partner.
Seeing the Toyota left, the latter one took the walkie-talky from his lap and pressed the button, "the target is on move. Everyone get ready. Team one, block the road. Team Two, get ready. The target and we will cross you within ten minutes. Block the road then. Make sure no traffic is there at that time."

"This is team two," someone said from the opposite side, "we already started to divert the traffic. No cars are here in this road."

"Why started already?" the shorter man almost growled in the walkie-talkie, "what if someone suspects something?"

"Don't worry. The road is silent at normal times even. Till now, four cars came. But none of them suspected a thing seeing our dresses."

"It is ok then. Stand by. We are coming," the shorter man looked at the driver, "let's go."

The driver nodded and started the car. He slowly crossed the parking lot and getting on the main road, he increased the speed. Michael drives like crazy. If they want to catch up to the Toyota, they'll have to speed up too.

"Be careful. Always keep fifty yards gap between the cars. Don't get too close."

After a few minutes, the blue Toyota of Michael and Debby came into sight. It was standing illuminating the indicator on the town exit to go to the highway, waiting for the traffic light to turn green.
Keeping the distance, the black Chevy also halted.

After a few seconds, the light turned green and Michael brought the car to the highway, looking at the rearview mirror, he saw only one black van. Nothing else.
Getting the clear road, he sped up his Toyota. He wanted to go home early today.
This highway leads up to Cotswold mountain ridge a few miles ahead. In Winstone's mountain valley, Michael and Debby built their first home.

Though people don't like such a backdated place to live in while the city is so near, both of them had a different perspective on life.
None of them liked the cosmopolitan lifestyle and after spending the whole day with machines, nature is something they want to return to.
The only problem was, it took them hours on the way every day. So Michael always tries to cover up the time by speeding up the car.

The road is empty most of the time, so Michael doesn't have to worry about accidents or stuff.

Seeing the indicator in the speedometer exceeding eighty, Debby scolded him a little, "slow down. Why in such a hurry?"

Michael smiled a little mischievously, "Still have so much work, remember?"

"Oh yeah?" Debby smiled sarcastically.

The smile increased on Michael's lips, "of course! Making dinner, cleaning the house, playing with the princess, and making love to you..."

Debby pinched Him hard and rolled eyes, "as if you do all the work!"

Michael caressed the hand that had just been attacked, "no, of course not! You do it too. You are great in everything. Especially..." he grinned provocatively to Debby only to get pinched once again.

"Hey!" Michael smiled, "Don't you know? Never disturb the driver while driving. Don't blame me if any accident happened!"

"Michael?" suddenly Debby smiled.

"Yeah?"

"I love you."

Michael smiled. He loves this trait in Debby. She never held back her love for him. Not even after the eighth year of their anniversary.
Well, the eighth year will be tomorrow.
A diamond pendant is sitting on a leather box in his backpack in the back seat.

Though Debby doesn't like extravagant things, she'll like it if Michael was the one who gives them to her.

"I love you too."

Debby leaned towards Michael with her seatbelt still on and kissed his cheek.

The car reached the Cotswold mountain ridge.
The front was covered with high and low hilly areas up to the horizon. And the road climbed between. During driving down to the first slope of the road, one van passed them but none of them concentrated on that.

The van had writing on its body, "Leeway construction."
After crossing the Toyota, the van stopped and four people jumped out of it. Everyone was in their Coverall and helmet. After The following black Chevy crossed them too, they become busy. They placed a wooden roadblock across the road and placed a signboard stating,

Careful.
Construction is going on.
Take the alternative road.

Seeing the roadblock in the rearview mirror, the short man in the Chevy smiled and took the walkie-talkie once again, "team three, another two miles."

It didn't even take two minutes to cross the distance. Michael was as usually driving at high speed.
The location was a sharp bend. The most dangerous part of the road, just like a blind turn.
Michael was experienced on this road.
Reaching the bend, he gave a long horn. Getting no sound from the opposite side, he relaxed and started to turn the bend without slowing down much.

But just then, the danger showed up. One huge eighteen-tired truck emerged from the opposite side, coming their way almost covering the whole width of the road.

A frightened shout left Debby's mouth.

Micheal was immensely cold-headed. He didn't lose his grip and avoided the collision readily. Their Toyota ran across the edge of the road, the front end hit the railing of the edge of the slope.
The railing was smashed and the car stopped when the body of the car was halfway in the air.

Both of them survived due to the seatbelt, but still, Michael got a cut on his forehead with the collision of the dashboard in front of him.
He wiped away the blood and looked around. Surprisingly, the truck was going away casually as if nothing has happened just now.

Why were they not helping them? Michael grasped on the matter immediately and his mind turned bitter.

Michael peeked his head through the window. The rough slope of the mountain came to his eyes, it was about two hundred to three hundred feet drop.
The Toyota has broken the railing and now hanging in the air with half of its body. The car was trembling dangerously, it can drop at any moment.

Michael looked at Debby. She was lying lifelessly in her seat, "Debby? Debby are you ok?"

Debby groaned and opened her eyes, "w...wh...what happened?"

Michael sighed, "accident. But intentional. That truck didn't give any horn before taking the turn, plus it was covering the whole road, blocking the space for us to go through. Didn't you see? It tried to run over us."

"My god! But why? Who?"

Michael didn't make any sound. Just silently uttered a word to his wife.

"No!" Debby gasped, "that person is a maniac, but not to this extent! "

Hearing the engine's sound in the back, Michael didn't argue back.
He sighed, "Thank god, a car!"
Looking back, he saw the black car stopping which was following them, and shouted, "please, help us!"

Getting down from the van, the shorter man came up to the part of the railing which was still intact and leaned forward to look at Micheal.
He clicked his tongue and smiled, "very bad...very bad, Dr. Walden!"

Micheal was surprised, "you...you know my name?"

"Not the only name, I know many things about you," the man smiled, "I know how carelessly you drive, I know in how much speed you cross this bend. That's why this ceremony took this much preparation, Dr.Walden! Blocking the two ends of this road, getting the truck right at the perfect time...isn't so easy, no? Though you still managed to avoid the collision. But..." getting two steps backward, the shorter man observed the situation, "this situation isn't bad either! At least better than head-on collision! Thanks to you, Dr. You made a perfect setup. Now nobody will suspect about an intentional accident!"

Michael's eyes widened in disbelief. He wanted to jump down the car, but below his door was three hundred feet drop and even one slight movement was threatening the car to fall.

He never felt this helpless in his life, "who are you? Why are you doing this?"

"There is no need to know about my identity. Just know that I am getting paid with six-digit for this work. Anyway, no more talking. Goodbye Dr. Walden. Take care!"

The huge-bodied driver this time came forward. He forwarded his car and its front bumper touched the rear end of the Toyota hanging on the edge and started to push it little by little.

The little Toyota started to move forward, will drop from the edge at any time.

Debby was crying like crazy. Micheal shouted from the window, "please, don't do it, Don't!"

In reply, the short man smiled amusingly and waved his hand silently.

The Toyota dropped at that moment. For a moment it seemed like it was floating in the air, but when it thrashed on the ground below three hundred feet, it was prominent that it was a hallucination only.

The Toyota dropped head first so the front end smashed into pieces first and then it started rolling the to side, getting further down to the slope. After every spin, its body was getting disfigured more and more.

When the rolling stopped, it was not in any shape of being recognized as a car anymore. It was just a lump of iron garbage at that time.

The fuel line has already torn. With the friction with the stony ground, the steel made a few sparkles which made contact with the fuel already.

The short man was waiting eagerly at the edge beside the railing.
He didn't had to wait for long.

Not long after, the whole valley reverbed with the blast.
Orange-colored fire grasped the body of the car, engulfing it for eternity.

Taking up the walkie-talkie, the short man ordered every team to get back. And then getting on his car, he picked up the wireless telephone connected with the dashboard, "Garfield speaking,"

"Report," someone said from the opposite side.

"Mission successful," said the shorter man, "target has been eliminated."

"Very good," the opposite voice was satisfied, "the rest of the payment is going to be in your account soon."

Garfield cut the line.

He looked at the black smoke coming from the burned Toyota down there and sighed a little, "let's get going."