The Case of the Mad Scientist

Chapter 4: An Assignment

The pretty young woman had just pulled her Miata into her parking space at the Crenshaw Arms apartment complex. Humming a happy tune to herself, she picked up a couple textbooks from the seat next to her and walked to the apartment she shared with a fellow secret agent, Mark Paulson. Mark had told her that secret agents did not drive little sports cars like that, they drove high-powered machines, like his Corvette. But she liked her little car. She said it was “cute”.

Finished with the class for that day, “Seventeen Ways to Kill a Man with a Pencil,” she ready to relax. Being a hot day, she immediately shed her clothing and enjoyed the air-conditioned air against her naked body. In the bedroom, she did a few stretching exercises and wondered what she could do while waiting for Mark to come home. Then she saw the set of handcuffs on the dresser and smiled.

pairs of steel cuffs in her hands, she made sure that the keys were sitting on the dresser in plain sight, and then she tossed

joined hands. It was not too difficult to lock one of the cuffs around the

and, according to Mark, very difficult to get out of. She believed him, because the night he had locked her

tightened down another click. Then she twisted around and arched her body, trying to see what she was doing behind her. Seeing some of

to the conclusion that she was not going to be able to