Jason did not want to start running with Nancy for two main reasons.

The first was that she was pregnant and was already too stressed and secondly, the road was a straight road with no place to hide and the goons may shoot at them and it would be a straight one. He could not risk getting Nancy injured.

'Why were the police taking so long?' Jason asked as he got the gun he had taken from Richmond ready if only to stall for more time.

He gave it to Nancy and held on to his own which he had also remembered to take from Richmond. He quickly thought her...