Baby Jump
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The Loggerheads pub
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Pat held his g*n straight and looked at Angela, bent double with pain and staring up at him with wide, frightened eyes. He didn’t want to have to shoot her. But what was he supposed to do here?
‘I need... the hospital...’ Angela moaned out the words between angry breaths. Then she stood up straighter, her eyes slightly clearer. ‘You won’t stop me. You’re not like that, are you? The kind of man who hurts women.’ There was something steely in her now. ‘You’re not,’ she said, very sure of herself.
Pat lowered the shaft of the g*n. He took Angela by the arm and into the lounge bar, helping her to sit down at one of the tables. ‘Problem is, you’ve seen too much,’ he told her, sitting in the chair opposite. ‘And your loyalty wouldn’t be to me
