Nyssa Glass and the Caper Crisis by Burke H. L

Author:Burke, H. L. [Burke, H. L.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-01-22T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Four

A sour taste filled Nyssa’s mouth as she walked down the empty New Taured streets. Chief traveled at her elbow, shooting her a glare every time they passed a straggling pedestrian scurrying home for Christmas Eve dinner.

Feather-light snowflakes swirled about them, glistening like diamonds in the gas street-lights. Nyssa’s nose stung, from the cold, yes, but also from being rubbed red until she’d hopelessly soiled the last of her three ragged handkerchiefs.

“I’m glad you finally stopped bawling.” Chief paused to read a street sign before gripping her arm in a painful squeeze and pulling her off the well-lit main road into an alley. “Tears and business don’t mix.”

Nyssa wiped her nose on her sleeve. “You didn’t have to kill Barney.”

“It shut you up, didn’t it?” He sneered. “Next time you’ll think twice about mouthing off to me.” He reached into his vest and pulled out a pair of goggles which he slipped over his eyes. After a moment messing with the dials on the side of the eye-pieces, he nodded.

She recoiled. Those goggles look awful familiar. “What are those?” she asked, wondering if he actually would admit to stealing from the man he’d murdered so coldly mere hours before.

Chief met her stare and shrugged. “New equipment … they’ve got like three settings, including night vision. Come on.”

The back alleys hadn’t been cleared the way the sidewalks on the main streets had. Nyssa’s boots squelched in slush well past her ankles. Judging from the draft tickling her side, her threadbare coat had a new hole in the armpit. She clamped her arms to her side to keep the heat in and doggedly followed Chief into the darkness.

“W … w ...where’s Red?” she stammered. She bit her lip to keep her jaw from shaking.

“Sent him ahead to make sure you didn’t have the police watching the place.” He snorted. “Figured after your idiocy today, I couldn’t be too careful. Ah, this should be about it.”

They slipped through a passageway between two brick warehouses and stood in a narrow but clean alleyway. Some of the two-story buildings looming above them had lights on in the upper floors. Nyssa recognized the clock tower that jutted over the line of shops, it’s face glowing golden against the inky clouds.

“Just in case you get any wild ideas about taking off, Red’s watching the front, and I’ll be here in the back.” Chief pointed towards the doorway. “If you run, we’ll grab you. If you fumble your part of this heist, accidentally or otherwise, you’ll pay for it. Dearly.”

Nyssa swallowed. “I know what I’m doing.” Which is all the work … Their various roles had always been clearly defined. Chief was the mastermind, picking the jobs and laying out the plan. Red was the heavy, standing watch and applying force if anything went sideways. Nyssa … well, she was everything else, the talent, cracking safes and disabling alarms, and tonight she’d fulfill her part flawlessly—or else.

I’ve never had a choice. She blinked back hot tears. One escaped and tumbled down her cheek, cooling as it went.

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