Stub had a deep cut in his head and was bleeding badly and groaning.
Brax seemed unconscious. Bubble's leg was pinned beneath a seat and couldn't move. A glass was lodged in the manager's stomach and he seemed lifeless. The girl was crying, saved due to her favourable position in the SUV, her clothes riddled with blood and injuries.

Tom looked at all this and felt helpless. Well not completely helpless. He had only broken a wrist and sustained a couple of injuries. He could hear the faint sound of sirens in the distance. He had to move fast. He had to escape and save his skin. He kicked open the door and crawled out. He looked at the beautiful secretary. He cursed Stub for taking such a charming and feeble looking girl on such a dangerous ride. He felt pity for her. I have to save her and also use her as leverage, he thought. He went round and pulled the girl out of the damaged vehicle.

The cops were drawing closer. All this turmoil can not all be in vain, he thought as he went to the back of the car. He could only leave with one of the bags. There was close to fifteen million naira in one bag and he wasn't about to let that go in vain. He flung it across his shoulder, took a pistol and went round to meet the girl.

"What's your name?" He asked

"Karen," the beautiful secretary said amidsts gasps of pain.

"Can you walk?"

Thirty minutes later Tom and Karen were both still running inside the bush, having no idea where they were headed. They ran until they came to an open area. Karen was feeling very faint now, it was all Tom could do to hold her up. Tom located a little clinic nearby and asked the doctor to treat her. He sat in the clinic and waited, his bag of good fortune by his side. It was already dark.

45minutes later, a nurse came out. Tom rushed to meet her.

"How is she?"

"She's having a little internal bleeding," the nurse replied, "but she'll live. It's lucky you brought her here in time. Was it an accident? I can see blood on your shirt.

"Yes, Thank you for your concern and I'm very happy to hear she is okay. Can I see her now?"

"Of course. It's that way."

He went into the ward. Karen was asleep. She looked very peaceful and gorgeous just lying there in a neat surgical gown. She was looking all cleaned up now. Tom went and sat beside her and held her pale little hands. He felt sorry about everything. He thought about his sick mum, about Lucy, about his gang members who he had left behind. "It's all gonna be alright." He whispered and fell asleep.
He was woken up by a sound. He checked his watch: 9:14pm. There was noise outside. The Tv in the ward was on and there was a reporter on the screen.

"...bank this afternoon," the reporter was saying. "There were four of them sighted and were headed towards Shusi town before their car was involved in an accident. The manager, Mr. Jeffery Ighene, that was held hostage was killed in the accident and two of the injured criminals arrested. But two are still on the loose and it is alleged that a female in her mid twenties is been held hostage by them. The public is hereby required to notify the State Police if any information on these criminal comes up."

As she finished, the pictures of Stub and Tom were displayed on the screen with the word "wanted" written bodly below.

Tom couldn't believe his eyes and ears. He had thought Stub was dead and now they were both wanted by the police. The clinic wasn't safe anymore.