My Spy by Marie Ferrarella

Author:Marie Ferrarella
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Silhouette
Published: 2007-03-13T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 10

The man in the chair shrank against his ropes. Rather than appearing to be some deadly assassin, he looked terrified. His dark eyes were huge as they followed Joshua’s every move and he seemed afraid of being beaten. There was a discoloration forming on his forehead where he had hit it against the floor when he’d gone down.

“I don’t know who hired us,” he cried for the third time. “I only know Malcolm and Conrad.” He looked from the man to the woman he’d helped kidnap to the old woman he’d terrorized, clearly hoping for some pity. “Malcolm brought me along because I was handy with cars and he thought that maybe there’d be a need for that. I didn’t even know who the hell we were supposed to be kidnapping until just now.”

“And you’re all right with that?” Pru demanded. “Just swooping down and kidnapping a defenseless woman for no reason?”

“You weren’t defenseless. You bit me,” the man, Ken, protested. “And there was a reason all right.” It was obvious that this was not the brightest that the underworld had to offer. “Malcolm said that there’d be money, lots and lots of it. That your family would pay anything to get you back. And nobody was going to be hurt,” he added nervously, as if that made everything all right. “He told me that, Malcolm did.” He all but pouted as he said, “But then you shot Malcolm. And Conrad.” His voice dropped as he looked at the form beneath the sheet.

Because it had upset the old woman to see the body, Pru had gotten a sheet and spread it over the dead man.

As if he didn’t have a care in the world, Joshua cocked his weapon and aimed it at the third kidnapper. “And now I’m going to shoot you—unless you want to tell me the truth.”

“I am telling you the truth,” the man sobbed. “I don’t know how else to say it. Conrad said he was taking orders from someone too high up for me to know about. That he was the only one who could talk to this guy. Conrad said the less I knew, the better.” He tried to shrug and couldn’t. The ropes were tight. “That was good enough for me.” The kidnapper shifted his eyes toward Pru. “Please, it’s the truth. So help me God, it’s the truth.”

“God can’t help you once that one gets a notion in his head and starts going,” Pru told him solemnly, nodding her head in Joshua’s direction. She turned toward Elizabeth, taking the woman by the arm. “Maybe I’d better take you into the next room, Elizabeth. You won’t want to see this.”

“Take me,” the man in the chair cried, trying desperately to get loose. “Take me to the next room. Don’t leave me here with him. Please!”

“Maybe we shouldn’t leave him in there,” Elizabeth whispered to her the moment they were in the next room. The old woman looked concerned despite the fact that the man had tried to hurt her husband.

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