Soon his fell eyes on Syn. The robber strode through the masses huddled on the floor and hauled Syn to her feet. ‘Do you feel like being a hostage ...today?’ the robber asked her. At a loss of what she was supposed to say, she said the first thing that came out, ‘Never too late to try something new.’ The man steered her to the vault, where the manager was filling the last of the bags. ‘Good, you can start by grabbing a couple of those,’ he said pointing her in the direction of the currency filled. She had stolen my heart, hidden it. And I would have to take hers in return.***********************************************************Later that evening I had a text come through on my phone. I started to read the text, it said;‘Hey Tyler. It’s Nikkie. I hope you don’t mind me texting you. I got your number from Cayla. I just wondered if you were okay. You seemed to be in a bit of a hurry when you half walked half ran from us, ha-ha, so, how are you, and, why was that?’ I responded by phoning. I saw the silent plea in Myrna's eyes so I sat back to see where this was going to go. I did know he was out of here as soon as I could arrange transportation for him. If he didn't go, promise or not, I would beat his ass for acting this way in front of everyone. I watched as the tears in Myrna's eyes went away, and I could see she was getting ready to explode. I sat and waited to see what he would do when she did. It wasn't long in coming either."Carver, that's it. I have had enough of your. " Thank God you were there." I nearly wasn't. A few seconds later crossing the ford and I would have been swept away too. How come you were in the river?"Ashamed of myself, I explained."That was a really stupid thing to do, Anne. It nearly killed you, and me too. Those notices are there for a reason. I have to cross the river to get here. Usually I check before I do and if the engineers are releasing water at an unexpected time they ring and tell me. They couldn't raise my mobile and couldn't.