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“Take a breath, Emery”

It didn’t matter how softly he said it, that only made et it open, and how the fuck aet all my equipment inside? I think people will notice when I shoith a duffle bag”

I despised hoas losing control ofdown

Everythingexcept Vance “Do you know anything about the new safe?”

“Yeah” Bitterness leeched froerfield”

He paused,me to elaborate “And that’s bad?”

“For us? Yeah, that’s bad In addition to being notoriously hard to drill, it has counterainst that There’s a chance if I drill in the wrong place and crack the plate, I’ll activate the relocker system Then everyone is locked out completely, and if Lambert wants his shit, he’ll have to destroy the safe and hope the contents survive”

“That’s not going to happen” He sounded certain, and it was the reassurance I desperately needed I pictured hi a suit and a look of deter you, we can do it The party is athe probleht now and start with the safe What do you need to get inside?”

I tried to compartmentalize my fear and focus “It’d be easier if I knew exactly what I was going up against Like, so to practice on But, Vance,” I sed a breath, “a Lagerfield is over a hundred thousand dollars”

“Okay” There was no hesitation, because money was no object, and it in at all costs “How many do you want me to buy?”

The nexterfield had been ordered for the Hale estate After I’d cal our phone call, I’d asked Vance about the dress, but he didn’t know anything about it

It was tailored tomy suspicion

This dress was froe she was alive

I’d spent every availablefor the safe to be delivered When I posed the hypothetical question, roup of fellow master safecrackers arrived at the opinion I should manipulate the lock, but this scared the shit out of me I wasmeticulously number by number on the dial to find the low spots

I promised myself I wouldn’t make any decisions until I was face-to-face with the beast