I Kidnapped the Mafia Heir, and He Never Tried to Escape novel · Chapter 4 of 24

Chapter 4: Two Men and a Gas Can

I was standing in my underwear and a work jacket with a space heater at my feet, and two men were about to burn me alive.

"Jeans," said Mal, quietly.

I grabbed them off the floor and hauled them on with my boots still half off.

The front door rattled.

Someone slopped a stream of liquid along the bottom of it, and the stink of gasoline came under the frame.

"Back door," I said.

"Padlocked from the outside," said Mal. "I saw the chain when you dragged me in."

"You saw that and didn't say?"

"You were busy."

I wanted to hit him.

Something heavy thumped against the front door, and a voice said, "Light it when I say. Not before. She's got to be in there with him."

"Key," said Mal.

"What?"

"The cuffs. Culhane, the key is in your left pocket. Now."

I dug it out.

My fingers shook so badly I dropped it once, and it skittered under the workbench.

I went down on my knees and got it, and I came back up and put the key in the lock.

I could have run for the loft.

I could have left him chained there to take what his uncle sent.

I turned the key.

The cuffs fell open, and Mal Murtagh stood up, rolling his wrists, with my father's winch ring still dangling its chain at his boots.

"Give me the knife," he said.

I tossed it from the bench.

He caught it by the handle without looking.

The front door flew open on a gust of cold air.

The first man came in with a gas can swinging and a pistol in the other hand, a heavy-shouldered guy in a navy windbreaker, and he saw me and he smiled.

He never saw Mal.

I watched it happen in about four moves.

Mal stepped out of the dark beside the door.

He drove the knife handle into the man's wrist, and the pistol hit the concrete.

He turned his hip, brought a knee up into the man's stomach, and as the man folded, Mal put an elbow behind his ear.

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