Page 121 of Marked By the Pack
She waggled her eyebrows at me.
Never mind.I got it. “So we’re going to walk into the bank and then exit off the roof while wearing sexy outfits?”
“Exactly. You’re getting it now. And I memorized the vault code, so that’s easy peasy. We’ll be in and out in a flash.” She snapped her fingers.
“What about alarms? And cameras?” I pointed to one of the new ones Ace had mounted in her living room. “If they have cameras in your house, they have cameras in their bank. Shit! They’re probably watching us right now!” I rolled up the schematics of the bank and shoved them under the coffee table.
“Don’t make it obvious, Emma!” she said as I threw one of the ropes under the table too. The metal hook clanged against one of the legs.
“I’m helping.”
“By breaking my coffee table?” She grabbed the other hook from me before I could accidentally do any damage. “Besides, I don’t think those cameras have that good resolution. They’re for security purposes. And we don’t have to worry about any of that. We’re walking in the front door. Why would an alarm go off if we have a key? My plan is flawless.”
“That doesn’t mean they won’t get notified of someone walking into their bank after hours. I think we need to plan the heist from the beginning. Scrap everything you’ve already done.”
“Why?”
“Because your plan is way too extra.”
“I think you’re just not getting it,” Zoey said.
“Oh, I’m getting it. And it doesn’t make any sense. The vaults are on the first floor. We don’t have to go anywhere near the roof…”
“But I’ve always wanted to rappel down the side of a building. Come on, Emma, it’ll be fun.”
“We can do that at a different time then.”
Zoey just stared at me like I was the one with the crazy plan. “Oh. I know what’s happening.”
“What?”
She stood up, went into the kitchen, and came back out with two glasses of wine filled to the brim. She handed me one. “Drink up.”
“This doesn’t fix your plan.”
“I think you’re about to see everything a bit more clearly in about twenty minutes.”
“Zoey,” I said.
“Emma,” she said back.
I sighed and took a sip. I honestly needed to be drunk to plan any of this.
“And while that heist planning liquid kicks in, tell me what you found at Callum’s place. You said you had some new information?” She plopped back down next to me on the sofa.
“Yeah.” I took another sip of wine. “Callum has this theory that your boyfriends are trying to gather relics for a certain Egyptian god. Sek something? Hold on one second. I know it was the goddess of lions or cats.” I did a quick Google search. “Ah yes. He thinks they’re either trying to find the relics of Sekhmet, goddess of lions, or Baset, goddess of cats. And that if they find all the relics that have been taken from Egypt and return them to the source…that their curse will be lifted.”
Zoey nodded. “Huxley mentioned something like that tonight. About returning relics to their rightful owners.”
“Yeah, but aren’t we looking for a coin with an Anubis head? Why would that belong to Sekhmet or Baset? You’d think we’d be looking for a coin with a cat head instead.”
“They’re still Egyptian, though. That’s definitely related.”
I shrugged. I didn’t really know enough about them to argue with her. Just what Callum had told me. “Yeah. So your guys think their cure and creation is linked to Egyptian mythology. But Callum thinks his is linked to Slavic mythology. Most of his relics were from Romania and somehow related to the Eastern Orthodox church. A cure for him would be something religious, tied to thechurch. He doesn’t think anything to do with Anubis will cure him or your boyfriends. Apparently he’s just the god of the dead or something. Nothing linked to supernatural creatures. Or cures.”
“I think my billionaire source knows what he’s talking about,” Zoey said. “He seemed pretty confident in what he told me. And he definitely said the Anubis head coin would cure all of them.”
“But how well do you know him? Who’s to say he’s an expert on any of this? Callum’s been searching for a cure for hundreds of years for vampirism.”
