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"Sure," Si?"

When Kat reached the doorway, somehow Marcus was already there, a suitcase in his hand "I believe you’ll be needing this, hed "Paris?" He looked away "Say hi to your dad"

5 Days Until Deadline

Chapter 21

Aest person in Interpol’s Art Crime division to achieve the rank of detective She was not the only woency that was in every way a part of the Old Boy network, it was i that she was neither old nor boy This was only part of the mystery that surrounded her when she’dthat most mystified the professional mystery solvers of the small branch of Interpol’s main European office was that A, of course, was no exception

No sooner had she walked into the craues ot a witness to your gallery robbery," he said in English, and Detective Bennett did not seeain "An Airl," the ht of the break-in She says she saw asuspiciously"

At this, Detective Bennett raised her eyebrows "Is he anyone we know?"

The irl sat waiting

"Thank you soin I’m Detective Bennett," the woot your nairl said "Melanie O’Hara"

"The Henley?"

Kat heard her father’s voice Through the sh the crowd of the familiar square, his phone held to his ear, oblivious to the fact that his only daughter was standing in the bell tower of the church, watching everything

"That’s a nice way to greet your daughter No ‘Hi, honey, how’s school?’" she teased

Her father kept his left hand shoved in his pocket, deep inside his cashotten a lot colder in the past week

"The Henley?" he asked again "You know, so to"--he stopped and surveyed the crohile lowering his voice--"rob the Henley, but that can’t be My daughter is at the Colgan School"

"Dad, I--"

"Leave the Henley alone, Kat," he blurted "Take a test Go to a pep rally or--"

"A pep rally?"

"Kat, kiddo, you do not want to do this"

"Of course I don’t want to, Dad," she said, too aware of how true and deep the sentiment ran "We have to"

"We? Who exactly is we?"

"Hale," Kat said Even frorimace "Simon Gabrielle" Kat wanted to keep her voice even, steady "Hashaws?" he said, not hiding his disapproval

"They didn’t know she was a nun!"

A cold wind blew through the tower and down onto the square where her father stood

"So that’s it, huh?" her father asked "You’ve got your own little heist society and now you’re gonna rob the Henley" He turned and starteddown the busy street "Call Uncle Eddie, Kat Tell him it’s over You’re out"

"You think Uncle Eddie is putting me up to this?" She watched the words wash over hiotten on a plane and told me to let him handle it?"

"Then let hih "Because Uncle Eddie always has your best interest in mind"

"Kat" Her father’s voice was softer "You stay away fro for you"

"I’m fine, Kat"

"Now, Dad You’re fine now You can get coffee and read newspapers and put on a show for whoever Interpol has following you that day But if Taccone doesn’t get his paintings back, five days fro to be a , and then Arturo Taccone’s gonna be here and you will be anything but fine"

He shook his head "You don’t know that"

"I do" Kat turned away, leaned against the cold, rough stone of the toall as she spoke softly into the phone "I do know, because he told me"