Maxwell Cain 2: With a Side of Vengeance by Adam Smith

Author:Adam Smith [Smith, Adam]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-04-18T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 15

It Ain’t My Fault I’m Loveable

The guards shoved Max and Hank roughly back into their cages and left through the steel door. In the sudden silence, Johnny Legion whistled appreciatively.

“Didn’t expect to see you both come back. What happened?”

“I told Andy to cram it up his ass and crawl around like the snake he is,” Max snapped.

Hank chuckled. “Max refused to take the killing shot on me. He risked his life to turn the crowd against Andy and force him to agree to another match tomorrow.”

Johnny hiked up his massive brows in surprise and scrutinized Max with new curiosity. “So you don’t just talk the talk, Cain. You really are stupid enough to lay your own neck on the line.”

“It’s not stupid to care for the folks around you,” Max growled.

“Yes, it is, but I’m actually paying you a compliment.” Johnny’s predatory eyes bored into him. “I’ve heard a lot of warlords make pretty speeches about unity and sacrifice, but when it comes time to suffer together, they’d just as soon yank out your kidneys and sell them for cash. You put it on the line for a guy who’s basically a stranger to you. I ain’t seen that before.”

Max shrugged. “Nothing new, Johnny. It’s what I’ve been doing all along. It’s what any decent man would do, in fact. You just haven’t known any decent men.”

Johnny narrowed his eyes, then shrugged. “Whatever. Look, if you’re really intent on playing hero and if you honestly imagine you can get us out, I can hold off killing you until we get free of this prison. Final offer, take it or leave it.”

“Gee,” Max said sarcastically, “let me think about it.”

The steel door at the back of the room burst open with a clang, rebounding off the cement wall with a loud crack. Andy Wong stomped into the room in his full-skirted red coat, his heavy footfalls pounding the cement floor as he strode down the center aisle between the cages. He walked past Hank without a second glance and stopped in front of Max, just outside of the surly ex-cop’s reach.

An angry snarl twisted Andy’s red face. “You insolent mongrel. How dare you defy me in my own palace?”

Max leaned casually against his bars. “Hey, it ain’t my fault all your flunkies love me. Looked like a few of them planned to leap down into the pit with me and get a taste of my charm for themselves.”

“These animals lust after any kind of pleasure.” Andy snorted nonchalantly, but his face and ears belied his false composure by still burning red. “I provide them with endless ecstasy. And for that, I am their king. King!”

Max leered. “I didn’t hear them chanting your name up there, Andy.”

The crime boss’ face went from red to purple. He reared back his foot to kick Max’s cage, but thought better of getting too close to the hardened killer.

“I’m gonna see to it you die screaming, Cain.” Andy thrust his finger at Max, then at Hank and Johnny as well.

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