Miami Heist by Van Allen Plexico

Author:Van Allen Plexico [Plexico, Van Allen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: White Rocket Books
Published: 2020-06-16T16:00:00+00:00

23

Connie Perrigen lay on her stomach on the cold tile floor of the great hall. She held her head up at such an angle that she could see quite a few of the people in a broad arc around her. She had already made one important decision on her own this evening, and she was increasingly confident that it had been the right one.

“My lord, my lord,” the older woman directly to her right kept whispering over and over. “Will they kill us all?”

Connie evoked as reassuring a tone as she could manage. “No, Mrs. Worthington. They’re just robbers. I’m sure they’ll leave as soon as they have everyone’s money and jewelry. And then they’ll be caught before they’ve taken three steps onto the mainland.”

The older woman turned her head so she could see Connie better, and said, “I hope you’re right, my dear. Yes, I do. But I think these are desperate men. They worry me.”

Connie made soothing sounds to the lady, but in truth Bigelow’s two men worried her, too. She wondered if the appropriate term wasn’t desperate but incompetent. Nor did they come across as the most stable lot. She wondered where Harper and Salsa had found them. And if they couldn’t have found someone better.

Harper had assigned her the job of mingling with the crowd so that, when the robbery began, she would be in their midst as just another victim, but in prime position to try to keep them calm and under the control of the robbers. Lois was supposed to be in there with her, giving them double the coverage of the crowd. But Lois hadn’t shown up for the rendezvous, so the entirety of the task had fallen to Connie.

She had been doing the best she could, but now an additional concern was creeping in. This was all going on too long. From what Harper had explained to her beforehand, it should have been over by now. This very visible upstairs robbery—the distraction and the locking down of the guests and the island staff— wasn’t supposed to begin until the guys in the basement were ready to start bringing out the gold. How long could that possibly take? Why were they still here?

Minutes earlier, she had been forced to expend considerable effort dissuading the two professional football players to her left from taking any rash actions. The two big Dolphins had been extremely unwilling to just go along with the orders of the robbers. Such a thing violated their sense of manly courage and duty, especially in front of so many other people. Only Connie’s quick intervention— “Let’s don’t do anything that could cause bloodshed, fellas” —had kept the situation under control.

But now, as this robbery wore on and on, the two big men were at it again. Conversing with each other in hushed but urgent tones from where they lay sprawled side-by-side on the floor, they were egging each other on, convincing one another, “We can take these guys.” And, Connie thought, maybe they were right.

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