Page 228 of Assassin

“Da.”

As they both slid through the air ducts, they both came to a stop at the grate.

With her booted foot, she kicked it out, and it went flying.

Well, so much for that.

When she dropped, she was in the outer area of the vault, and they were only halfway there.

Now came the difficult part.

Safe cracking.

“I’m up,” Alyona said, pulling a listening device from her pocket, and holding it to the tumblers of the safe. Slowly, she worked the first of three locks.

When it clicked, she moved onto the next one.

Rogue watched the dots on the screen, but when he looked up, he saw they had a problem.

Oh, shit.

This was worst-case scenario.

“Yo, Ajax, we have security rounding the building in a drive-by,” he said, getting that sinking feeling that they were absolutely going to enter the building.

This was why he did weeks of recon before a break-in. There were too many unknowns.

He could see the man duck behind the dumpster so as not to be seen.

“Are they just driving by?” he asked.

Rogue watched.

“Are we good?” Jinx asked from inside the bank.

He watched the car, and answered his wife.

“Yeah, so far,” he said, as the car did a loop around the block.

The whole time, Rogue was splitting his focus between the two.

“Update?” he asked.

She shared.

“Alyona has two of the three tumblers handled,” Jinx said over the phone. “She’s moving through them quickly.”

Thank God.

“Good,” he said, seeing the security car stop in front of the building.

Yeah, and that was because they now had a bigger problem than a locked vault and electronic security.

SHIT.

This was a night that the human element was being tossed into the mix.

The security was entering the building.

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