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Story: Marked to the Omega

Ipowered on the tablet,and Jennifer pulled up a chair next to me. I clicked through the files on the device and pulled up a floorplan for a house. The Luna estate—ourtarget.

“Okay,”she said. “So what’s yourplan?”

“The front coat room.We enter through the ventilation system leading from the roof, drop in, go through all the guest’s belongings stored in there, and slip out.Easy.”

“That’s it?”

“It’ll be easierthan sneaking around the house. Everything will be contained to oneroom.”

“I’m not convincedthere will be anything worth stealing in there,” Jennifersaid.

“Just trustme on this one. I’ve seen someone check in a diamond encrusted handbag before. There will be a bunch of valuable stuff, and how many people are going to thisparty?”

“From my research, at least a hundred.”She thought about it for a moment and then shrugged. “Okay. Let’s doit.”

“Awesome.Let’s go over what we know about the security system and how we’re going to access theventilation…”