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I reached out, grasped the cold, steel wheel, and pulled with all the force in my body as if I could wrench it open with brute force But that was unnecessary

The wheel turned

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When the door to the Lagerfield cracked open, I nearly collapsed into Vance My heart was banging inmy ability to breathe, and when the door s in a rush

I’d done it It took nearly two hours, but I’dsafes on the h None of this would have been possible without Vance He was the man I’d fallen in love with even as he’d warned me not to, and was literally my partner in crime now

But there was no tiratulate ourselves We ay behind schedule He had the saht because he jerked the door all the way open, revealing its contents

The interior setup of Lambert’s was different than Vance’s The top section of this safe had been custoht watches displayed, separated into ts of four, and each timepiece was housed in a circularto h kinetic energy

In the center section were the velvet lined drawers, and Vance beat me to the first one When he pulled it out, diaht Serena Lambert’s jewelry collection was extensive, and spanned the next two drawers, and I tried not to think about how a single piece from it could have covered

The final drawer had several coun, two spare azines, and a few pairs of cufflinks

All the relief that had poured throughto dry up The bottom section of the safe was a stack of assorted documents no thicker than a few notebooks Where were the laptops or hard drives?