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The signatures were perfect

With her camera phone, she chose the deposit icon for a bank account in Glasgow, Scotland, took a picture of the check, and pressed send She sent the second check to an account in London and at last, Teresa remembered to breathe

Step one was corabbed the birth certificate, the cash and the checks, and raced up the stairs to Laura's bedrooun out of her uniforerprints off with a cloth, and then walked to the nightstand beside Laura's bed She opened the drawer, positioned the gun so Laura could easily grab it and closed the drawer

Next, she went to the closet, opened a shoe drawer and reie and a roll of tape She set the birth certificate aside, counted out a hundred dollars and set that aside as well She put the checks and the rest of the cash inside the baggie and sealed it

Teresa unbuttoned it, let her unifor She took the white ball gown off the hanger and put it on It was a little too large, but she didn't care What she cared about was the bag full ofShe hadn't counted on that

Starting to panic, she quickly looked around In such a vast quantity of clothes, there had to be so she could use At last, she spotted a peach colored shawl and calrabbed it, the cash and birth certificate, slipped her feet into the pair of Laura's shoes she tried on earlier, and hurried to the dressing table It only took adark hair on top of her head and pin it in place Satisfied, she added a touch of color to her cheeks, found an unused tube of lipstick and applied it to her lips The color didn't look great on her, but she didn't care about that either

"Good enough," she muttered

Step tas complete

She called a cab, put the shawl around her shoulders, picked up the birth certificate and cash, and turned off the light She was about to leave, when she rerabbed it out of the top drawer, and then went to the living room to wait

By then, she was exhausted, but she was too nervous to rest

It didn't take long for the taxi to arrive, and when she saw it coood her escape