Billionaire Ransom by Lexy Timms

Author:Lexy Timms [Timms, Lexy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Dark Shadow Publishing
Published: 2016-02-08T06:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 9

Please work… Please work… Please work…

Everything hinged on the key cards working. If they didn’t, they were screwed.

Katie held her breath as they headed for the familiar elevators in the lobby of the building her father owned. Where she used to work. It felt like a lifetime ago, not a couple of weeks.

She was scared to death the cards wouldn’t work, that someone on the security staff would recognize her despite her being disguised as a man, or that her father would still be in his office. She knew the last was ridiculous because they had seen him leaving the building fifteen minutes before, but the thought still crossed her mind, and worried her.

The whole thing was insane, and she knew it.

They had to do it, though. Everything was riding on it—particularly their own lives.

Her muscles tensed as they entered the elevator and waited for the door to close. Her hands shook as she pulled the key card from her pocket and swiped it in the receptacle, and then pushed the button for the highest floor.

She held her breath again, expecting the lights to flash red as the computer realized the card was fake and denied them entry. If the card acted up, they’d be trapped in the elevators until the police came.

She huffed out, and then sucked in a gasp of air when the access lights turned green and the car began to ascend. She gave Morgan a shaky grin and he smiled back, but neither of them broke out in a happy dance, aware of the cameras watching their every move.

They headed out of the elevator and down the floor, keeping as close to the walls as possible in an effort to keep from being seen by the cameras. She knew where the blind spots were and they had discussed it at length, but she was horribly aware that, at some points, they could and would be clearly seen.

Katie knew every twist and turn of the hallway, yet she still felt ridiculously out of place. The clothing she wore felt awkward and strange. She stopped just outside an office door, and Morgan bumped into her.

“Here?” he whispered.

She shook her head and moved on. The door had been to her old office, and she didn’t recognize the name that now hung on it.

From what they could tell, most of the offices were empty and silent, the air around them hushed and still. When they reached Blake’s office, her hands shook again as Morgan used the lock-picking tools to open the door.

Precious seconds ticked by, measured by Katie’s thunderous heartbeat and the fear creeping along her nerve endings. Finally, the door gave an ominous click as it opened. Katie gasped loudly then held her breath when Morgan shot her a look.

The security cameras were outside the office, not within. She knew that the whole thing hinged on whether or not a guard had noticed two people near Blake’s door. They had to assume that one had, and hurry.

There was

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