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"Okay, Kat Just cal, but Kat couldn’t answer--couldn’t even pull her eyes and mind away fro but a soft velvet rope between Kat and the beautiful any piece that bore the label FROM THE ESTATE OF HAZEL HALE

Part of Kat wanted to jump over the rope, kick and claw at the desk--break it into a one Of course, she knew a basic Smash and Grab would never work at the Henley Still, a part of her wanted to try

"Are you ready, Kitty?" Hamish asked "Kat?"

She took a deep breath And said, "I’ve seen enough Let’s go"

Chapter 12

If Carlos’s apartment had seeht the rooid

The London skyline was perfectly clear through the tall glass walls, with the London Eye spinning around and Big Ben overlooking the House of Commons Kat was a hundred stories above it all, hidden in a fortress of steel and glass, and yet she couldn’t help feeling entirely too conspicuous, like anyone and everyone could see what they were doing Even though Hale was on the other side of the Atlantic, Kat still wished she could draw the blinds

"So what do we know?" Gabrielle asked In the reflection of the s, Kat saw her cousin sashay into the roouard patterns," Haus added "Which I don’t mind at all, I can tell you One of those blokes was bound to remember me, handsome as I am"

"Si at the computers spread out on the table in front of hi

"Siht, startled "Yeah Okay Do you want the good news or the bad news?"

"Good," everyone but Kat said in unison

"Oh" He deflated

"What?" Kat asked

"I don’t really have good news; I was just hoping to soften the bad," he said

"Just tell it like it is, Sied their caan

"That’s good news there, isn’t it?" Hanition software," Simon added "So…no But I don’t think they have any records of our faces froood news!"

He seemed so happy, so proud of hier She started to pace

"Cat in the Cradle?" Gabrielle said

"We don’t have Hale," Haed

"Do I look like a classically trained violinist to you?" he asked, and Gabrielle didn’t broach the subject again

"Then what about an Ace’s Wild?" Sius scooted forward "With a little Count of Monte Cristo?"

"Exactly," Simon said, excited

"Yes" Gabrielle crossed her arms "That is the perfect way to remind everyone at the Henley that ere the kids locked in a supposedly abandoned gallery when the Angel was stolen"

"Maybe that back door into their computer system is still there," Si "If it is, maybe I could--"

"Chill, Si an arm around his shoulders "Breathe"

"But--" he started, and Kat cut him off

"They closed that back door before they plastered over the nail the Angel hung on No one is ever going to use that again"

Si the fact that a most excellent security breach had had to die for their last mission to live

The silence stretched out, wrapping around thelass It felt for adown the Thames Kat prepared herself to feel the crash

"’Course, we could do this the easy way" Angus sounded like he’d been waiting hours for someone--anyone--to state the obvious

"An easy way?" Kat said "To rob the Henley?"

"An easy way to get into the Hale desk in the Henley" Ha purposefully across the room "If only we knew souessed

"Precisely," Hamish said

"No," Kat told them with a quick shake of her head

"I know ol’ Hale is busy, Kitty Kat," Angus talked on, "but he’d co toward the coffeepot in the kitchen She was tired of being cold "I won’t call hi "I’ll call hilad to jump on that corporate jet and…what’s the word?"

"Jet," his brother supplied

"Yes, jet over to help He’d be--"

"No!" Kat snapped, then drew a deep breath Her hands began to shake, so she set the coffeepot down "Hale can’t help, okay? He just can’t"