A Heist Story by Ellen Simpson

Author:Ellen Simpson [Ellen Simpson]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9783955339609
Publisher: Ylva Publishing
Published: 2018-01-17T03:00:00+00:00

Shelly agreed to the job, developing a plan with Marcey’s help. She was going along, to learn, and to play the part of an innocent lost insurance worker, if pressed.

The plan was simple, the sort of game Marcey read about in books and saw in the movies. Like a kid in a candy shop, she planned. They picked Monday, with the weekend for prep. Marcey dug through Charlie’s notebooks, finding all the little details he’d provided while casing the joint at the time he’d been arrested. A quick check late on Thursday afternoon and again on Friday morning before work proved that his guard rotation observation held. They could slip in, unnoticed, using a camera blind spot near the men’s bathroom. There was a door there with no keycard, just a simple lock.

“You’ll need these.” Shelly held out a worn leather pouch on Friday afternoon after catching a glimpse of the lock. “I trust you know how to use them.”

Marcey did not, but that was what the weekend was for. On Friday, she went to Home Depot and paid cash for a selection of locks, each more daunting and complicated than the next one. That evening, on the tablet Kim had loaned her, she got onto a TOR relay at the local branch of the library and googled instructions on how to pick locks. There were more videos than she could possibly watch, and her eyes soon glazed. She unrolled Shelly’s picks and stared at each of them in turn. In places, the polished metal was worn smooth. They had seen a lot, those picks. Marcey stared at the rake pick’s wavy end and sighed. Practice, it seemed, was in her future.

By Monday Marcey was at least proficient at getting into all the doors in her apartment. She hadn’t dared go out into the corridor to try her neighbor’s or the front door, however, she didn’t want to give Johnson any excuses, and having lock picks? Definitely could be considered a criminal’s tool. Totally cause for arrest in the city.

Shelly met her at the subway at four-forty on Monday afternoon, and they walked together, in silence, to the nondescript office building. In his notes, Charlie had documented the exact route in and out of the building, once they slipped by security.

“Did he do a trial run?” Kim wondered out loud when Marcey showed her the entry toward the front of another journal. All the pieces were there. All they had to do was put them together.

“He could have. This is too well-documented to be anything less than a job a few days away from completion.” Shelly ran her fingers down the pages of Charlie’s notebook. “There are places here where it looks like he had a false start or two. It isn’t like him to work solo either. I think Rio shook him.”

“Because he got arrested?” Rio was always this story in the back of everyone’s mind when it came to Charlie. Marcey wanted to know more about what had happened then, but everyone was mum on it.

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