A Magnificent Crime by Kim Foster

Author:Kim Foster [Foster, Kim]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kensington Publishing Corp.
Published: 2014-04-01T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 32

Well, that did it. He knew, absolutely. Next would come the security officers, the police, and a jaunt in a Swiss prison. Swiss prisons held a reputation for being quite clean and civilized. Surprisingly, that didn’t sway me one bit. The prospect held zero appeal for me.

I looked at Ethan. He was clearly thinking the exact same thing.

There was only one thing to do, and it certainly wasn’t going to include waiting here. I gritted my teeth. We were going to have to escape.

Problem the first: we had little equipment. Our phones and Ethan’s briefcase, with our most useful pieces of technology—glass cutters and jam shots to blow the locks off doors—were back at the front office. I had my purse, and our passports were inside. Much good they were to us now. Those images would likely be splashed on TV even if we did make it out of here.

Problem the second: we were inside an extremely high-tech secure facility. Their entire existence was to stop people exactly like us.

Although, to be fair, their emphasis was on stopping people like us from getting in. We didn’t want to get in. We wanted to get out.

Problem the third: this place was drowning in security cameras. The instant we started to make a move, we would be seen. And then the artifice would be over, and they would simply send in a team to retrieve us. We needed to maintain the charade as long as we could.

And then get the hell out as fast as possible.

I assessed the situation while trying to slow my breathing. Three security cameras pointed at our exact location. The corridor was solid concrete, and the barred door was secured with a steel lock. How sensitive were the microphones on the security cameras? Would they pick up every word? We had to assume so. That was good; I could use that.

“Darling, I have to pee,” I said in a stage whisper to Ethan. I clamped my knees together and did a ladylike impression of someone desperate to go to the washroom. “Do you think there’s a restroom around here somewhere?”

I glanced at the CCTV and estimated the blind spot. I saw Ethan doing the same. Simultaneously, we made our way to the same location.

And then Ethan glanced at his Rolex. He pushed a couple of buttons, and I saw the briefest flash of red in the CCTV cameras and knew they were jammed. The feed would now show just an empty corridor.

I knew this would quickly become suspicious in itself, and that it was just a matter of time before we would hear alarms wailing. So we needed to move fast. But we also needed to move smart.

We had to get back through the locked door in front of us. I whipped off my four-inch black patent Louboutins and pulled a lock pick out of the left heel. In a matter of seconds we were through that door. As we moved through the building, Ethan scanned for CCTVs and jammed them just before we came into view.

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