Against the Law by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Epub3
Publisher: Penzler Publishers

On the roof, Joe and Yelena were waiting. Then they heard Josh laughing over their earpieces. “Here they come,” he said. “They look traumatized.”

“Thank God none of that shite got on me,” Liam said. He was making his way back around to join Josh in the car.

“Yeah, you’d be walking home,” Josh answered.

Yelena pulled two gas masks from the pack and handed one to Joe, who fitted it over his face. “Okay,” he said. “We’re going in.”

With the crowbar, he chipped at the paint layered where the windowpanes joined, then forced it in the crevice, and using his foot, levered the skylight open. They both stood back, instinctively, to avoid the invisible rush of poisoned air from within. Then, while Joe aimed his gun into the now-empty store, Yelena clamped a winch over the opening. Sitting on the edge of the skylight, she put a foot into the loop at the end of the cord and lowered herself in.

She checked quickly to be sure it was indeed empty, then slid the loop over the leg of the table and signaled to Joe. He slid down.

They were in the back room of the shop. Around them refrigerated cases held tins of caviar and sealed sturgeon as well as cartons of blinis, vodka, and other trimmings. The equipment for the legit front business was on a work bench, while the central table was covered with the bagging supplies. A door led to the front of the shop, where, in the daytime, customers were served from behind a counter.

Joe shut that door, keeping it open a crack to watch, while Yelena quickly checked around. One of the fridges held a large black plastic trash bag, which she untied.

“Here’s the stash,” she said, handing it to Joe, who hefted it.

“Must be at least a dozen keys here.” He took hold of the cord and put a foot in the loop. “Let’s go,” he said, and then, over the mic: “We’re coming back out.”

Yelena joined him, sliding her foot in on top of his and wrapping her arms around him. Then she yanked the cord to start the winch, and they rose. As they moved past the table, she flipped it over, spilling the rest of the dope onto the floor. Now the plan was simply to go out as they’d come, exit through the neighboring building, and hop into the car with Cash and Juno. When the dope crew summoned the courage to venture back in, they’d find their stash mysteriously vanished. But as soon as Joe and Yelena’s heads cleared the window, someone took a shot at them. The bullet ricocheted off of the skylight’s metal frame.

They ducked, heads down, and hung there.

“Josh?” Joe asked over the mic. “Any news?”

“Shit, sorry, Joe,” he said. “I missed it. They must have a sniper in the building across the street.” He was out of his car now and scanning the street. “I’m going to have to move to get a shot.”

But now gunfire raked the roof above them, shattering the open skylight.

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