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The car almost made it, but the rear end clipped the front bumper of the truck as it passed The car spun out in a haze of tire s the way Andreas brought the truck to an abrupt stop

Tires squealed behind him as a van screeched to a halt sideways about ten feet behind the trailer

A beautiful dark-haired wo in Arabic as she exae to her car It didn’t seem extensive, just cosmetic, but she was furious

“I’ll handle her,” Andreas said to Georgios “You check on the cars As long as they’re okay, we don’t mention this to Ms Taylor, understand?”

Georgios nodded and got out

Andreas climbed down and looked at the front of the truck, which looked unda at hiot to her

“I don’t understand what you’re saying,” he said in his native Greek

“You speak English?” she asked, her eyes blazing

“A little,” he said

“Who pays for this?” she shouted, pointing at the scraped fender and crumpled bumper “Is rental!”

He offered to give her his insurance infor the angry honking of horns from cars backed up by the incident Andreas looked at his watch, i as soon as possible

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MacD waited in the driver’s seat of the van until the truck driver’s companion rounded the end of the trailer a

nd unlocked the door to check the vehicles When he raised it, MacD jumped out and yelled, “Hey, man, you have a problem with your tire!”