The Great Shelby Holmes Meets Her Match by Elizabeth Eulberg

Author:Elizabeth Eulberg
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

CHAPTER

17

Don’t stand out. Don’t stand out.

I kept repeating that in my head as I placed the watch that was synced with Shelby’s in the spine of the chemistry book. I took a chance and looked up to survey the area. Not one single person was paying any attention to me.

Maybe this undercover business wasn’t so hard.

As there were only a few minutes left until class started, the line of black SUVs and a few limos started to thin out as the girls made their way inside the school that was built like a stone castle. It even had a turret, which made it different from the rows of town houses and apartment buildings that lined Fifth Avenue.

I studied the girls, some who were dropped off by nannies, a few by maids in uniforms, and one was even escorted by a dude who looked like a butler, top hat and all. I observed that the girls were all giggling, and well … girly until they approached the school. Then they all straightened their posture and started to behave like the prim and proper girls Shelby had been imitating all morning.

My mind wandered to what Shelby would be doing right now. She was probably biting her tongue because someone didn’t have a fact right, or forcing a smile as someone droned on and on about a story that she didn’t find educational.

It must be driving her nuts.

Oh, how I wished I could be a fly on that wall.

By the time the school bell rang at 8:30 sharp, the front was completely empty. The only people on the street were adults in business suits on their way to work. At precisely 8:42, I walked around the corner to the window that Shelby had assured me was in the headmistress’s office. And true to her word, I could stand underneath it without being seen. I casually put the smoke bomb on the sidewalk and used my feet and bag to conceal it. I shoved the phone and speaker to sound the faux-alarm in my pocket and waited for my signal.

I wasn’t exactly sure how Shelby was going to get the headmistress to open the window, but if I’ve learned anything from working with her, it was to never underestimate Shelby Holmes.

Less than a minute later I heard the window open above me. My heart skipped a beat. I could faintly hear Shelby’s sugary voice, “Thank you so much. I have no idea what came over me. How horribly embarrassing.”

The window was open. That was my cue.

I lit the fuse of the smoke bomb and hit the fake alarm. The smoke bomb began to emit a ton of white smoke, which blew directly into the open window because of the wind.

I held my breath and prayed that this would not be the one time that Shelby Holmes was wrong.

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