Brandon froze, realizing his captor wasn’t joking.

“W… work for?” he stammered, raising his hands in the air to show surrender. “What do you mean? I’m just… I work at this hospital, man.” 

Jared kept his head down, using the bill of his ballcap as a shield. Coupled with the face mask, his face was practically unrecognizable. 

“See man,” Brandon continued, his eyes darting around for a witness or anything he could quickly grab and use for defense. “If it’s money you ...