Chapter 26
The duplicitous floor polisher had taken the roll of clear packing tape from Nat's desk drawer, and now began to wind it around and around his captives until he had both their arms tightly secured to their sides. Next, he worked to bind their lower limbs to those of the chair legs. Satisfied, Diego came to stand in front of the manager, the gun once again secured in his hand.
"Okay, Mr. Hot Shot. What's the combination to the safe?"
Chris squeezed his eyes and hoped to recall the sequence of numbers. He rarely opened it himself and usually relied on Nat to ask Merrill to retrieve anything he needed. "Upper left hand desk," he blurted. "The combination is taped to the inside of the drawer."
Setting his weapon on the edge of the desk, Diego went to check the drawer, and
