Without wasting a moment, Victoria pushed the girls out of the back of the truck, just before the thieves could reach them.
"Ohhh... Looks like we don't just have one now...we've got four of them," one of the thieves barked with a twisted grin. "Enough to go around!"
Cassandra, Celine, Anna, and Racheal winced as they hit the ground, dirt and gravel scraping their skin as they tried to recover from the fall.
Victoria stepped down from the truck a few seconds later. Yet not a single thief even spared her a glance. Their greedy eyes were fixed entirely on the four vulnerable girls sprawled across the earth.
"You... why do you have the hairpin with the blue rose?!" Cassandra shouted, confusion and terror sharpening her voice.
