Chapter 26: Escape from the Zoo
Joshwa was worried that Itzu’s bloody finger would dirty the backseat of his mother’s recently detailed Range Rover. The fact that Joshwa had to floor the gas pedal to make it out of the zoo complex before the police arrived was less daunting than his mother’s wrath. Joshwa hated when his mother called him “irresponsible.”
Sharon interrupted Joshwa’s obsessive thoughts when she quietly asked him over Itzu’s loud moans and garbled Malay, “where are we going?”
It had not occurred to either Joshwa or Sharon that they would be in a situation where they were on the run from law enforcement, smuggling a stolen tortoise and transporting a wounded poacher to an undecided upon location at such short notice.
Joshwa had habitual behavioral patterns that he followed in times of crisis and without answering, Sharon knew that he was already on autopilot to go back to their apartment and so she went against everything she believed in and refrained from arguing.