The Case of the Mad Scientist novel Chapter 4

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.

She decided to practice escapes from handcuffs. She opened the top drawer of the tall dresser and removed two more sets of handcuffs. Taking all three 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 the cuffs on the bed. She would need those keys in the event she failed to work her way free from the handcuffs.

She locked the first set on her ankles, clicking them down snugly. Then she locked one cuff around her left wrist. Putting her hands behind her back, she felt around and managed to click shut the second cuff around her right wrist. Reaching around in front of her as she sat on the edge of the bed, she took the third pair in her joined hands. It was not too difficult to lock one of the cuffs around the connecting link of the pair on her wrists. Then she rolled over onto her side and arched her body backwards. Feeling behind her, she managed to take the cuffs linking her ankles in one hand, and the empty cuff dangling from her wrist cuffs in the other. Click! Click! And Click!