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"Thanks Maybe you should re and any other obvious advice you can think of" He followed her nervously Prove it, he’d said and she had taken hiht up on it Your own fault,when she drove them to the house Hell, he hadn’t even noticed they’d left his own hborhood for the much more pretentious Carleton area, where mansions were as plentiful as street laure out a way to prove to her that her past and her current activities didn’t change the way he felt about her Hell, her past had shaped the wo him off, it just ht now, in fact So close he could have strangled her, which he felt like doing
This was big-ti at prison ter’s exercise, all so Kara could prove she was a cri," he h the mansion "I pictured us in a cozy co around in a living rooenhei doesn’t havethe stairs slowly, steadily, not looking back "It’s B&E-speak for getting into a business to steal from it"
"But this is soiven the size, but still"
"It’s a business," she said withmysteriousness and wouldn’t continue, no h the house was e another of Jared’s theories about burglaries Kara wasn’t a twitchy junkie with a heroine habit to feed, the "breaking" of the breaking and entering took about ten seconds and nothing was broken and there were lights all over the place, so no creeping in the dark like a deey about cri out of a bad movie…a bed the size of his kitchen, covered with a red satin co Dark furniture the owner’s faht to A) was so deep, he could feel himself actually sink into it The dressers were spotless, except for one large picture of a , with a suy looked like Santa on acid And, if this was his house, it was kind of in bad taste to have the only photo in the bedroori into someone’s house
There weretrapped in a carpeted disco Jared could see seven reflections of hi…and then theopen and…
"Jesus!"
…they were in a vault Kara, her fingers safe in surgical gloves, was opening a drawer and withdrawing a necklace worth, he estimated, the GNP of China
"You can’t steal that," he said, trying to sound authoritative, but very
She sht, how beautiful she looked even when she was being sly "Can’t I? If youIf youIf you ain"
"If I ht Put it back" She rabbed her wrist She raised an eyebrow at hirip
"Look, you’ve made your point I see what you do now"
"Do you?"
"You’re terrible, awful, evil, a real blight on society, I should have listened to you back at the apartment, blah-blah But don’t steal fro"
"Open the last drawer on the left," she said quietly "Use your shirt sleeve, don’t leave prints"
"Look, I don’t care how ers off her wrist "Just open it, please, Jared"
He did At first his eyes wouldn’t translate what he was seeing When they did, he blindly put his hand out for so to lean on, certain he was about to be sick Kara was there, not letting hiainst her
"Those odda terrible luck," she said syenuinely sorry for them "The film from their last drop-off was intercepted by the cops And now they’ve been robbed When the cops come, they’ll find…this"
In a flash, he saw her brilliance, saw the trap she had lain for the pedophiles "The police can’t search without a warrant," he said slowly, "but if there’s a robbery…and they happen to find pictures, say, all over the hallway…" He paused "But you’re never caught"
She grinned at hi to trip the alarm on the way out Cops’ll be here in about five minutes" She opened another drawer full of filth and waved a spare pair of surgical gloves at him "Want to help?"
"That was fun," he said half an hour later, feelinglives was fabulous, but preventing the further brutalization of children was even better "Nohere are we? Is it time for ice cream?"