“Go and get your money now! There is an ATM at the door. I saw it when I came in!”
Frank Noyes presses one hand against my shoulder and the other, still holding the knife to my waist.
I can only follow him out to the ATM.
We walk out and nobody notices the different.
Maybe they just feel that we walk too closely in public. But who will know, the crisis is hidden under harmonious surface?
I withdraw money slowly and count time secretly.
On the way, I saw a police station about one kilometer from the ATM. The police would be here by now if nothing goes wrong.
“How much do you need?” I turn around and ask Frank Noyes.
“Don’t waste time, withdraw as much as you have!” he says impatiently.
I obey his command and sigh of relief.
need his
and the ATM can only withdraw three thousand
time I withdraw the money and he counts it
could see out of the corner of my eye that there are several
counting the money,
“Here.”
come in. The police
me, “Jane Noyes, you called
he takes drugs, and tries
brother has become like this. But I know that there is no use to feel sorry for him.
a strong lesson to wake him
and
ward to
My
knife, and I called the police.” I
for you to make your mother jump off the building. Now you want to kill me! Frank
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