The guard wasn’t armed. Hence, it was hard to decipher how he was going to kill us. If he was going to use physical force, there was a stronger chance of our escaping him. We stood at a safe distance from him. To use physical violence, he would be required to get nearer, which would allow us to escape.
Since luck seemed to work in our favour, I tugged at the sleeve of Emanuel’s jacket and gestured him to run with me, but the guard ended up noticing my plan for escape.
“Are you trying to take advantage of my decency? Just because I treated you both with kindness, you want to make a fool out of me by running away?”
“No, you’ve misunderstood our intentions,” I tried to lie in a shaky voice to save ourselves because the man appeared furious.
My words only made our situation worse, as t
