The Wren in the Holly Library (THE OAK & HOLLY CYCLE #1) by K.A. Linde EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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It’s now or never.
Kierse crouched low, pressing her back against the stone in the
shadows.
Across the street was the largest Upper West Side brownstone she had
ever seen. Every detail looked original to the Victorian house, from the
wrought iron banisters to the holly bushes lining the walk and clinging to
upstairs balconies. Even the intricate door knocker and the bronze sconces
looked original.
Kierse slowed her breathing and crossed through the slushy brown mess
that was New York City after a snowfall. Fresh powder was coming down
again, and she obscured her footprints before peering through the first-floor
window into an enormous shadowed study. Nothing was out of place—as if
it were staged. Only a sliver of light bloomed through the crack under the
door.
Her job was simple: steal a diamond ring, get paid.
“Please try to be careful,” Ethan’s voice said into her earpiece, which
attached to the radio at her hip. A cell phone would have been better, but
she’d never been able to afford one.
A smile hit Kierse’s features. “I’m always careful.”
“Since when?”
Never. She glanced up to Ethan on the neighboring rooftop where her
lookout had binoculars trained on her. She gave him a double-finger salute
and got to work. She whipped out a set of tools, flicked the lock on the
window, and slid it up soundlessly. She’d investigated the nonexistent
security system on one of her first reconnaissance missions, and she still
didn’t understand how no alarms were present and nothing tripped. She
checked her surroundings, then slipped into the study, closing the window
behind her.
This was the part she had programmed in her mind. After constructing a
mock interior layout of the house, she’d run through her plan again and
again. She was prepared, but she’d broken into enough places to know that
nothing ever went exactly to plan. Her benefactor, Gregory Amberdash, had
given her all the information he had, which admittedly wasn’t much. The
ring was kept in a locked box in the library. A library seemed an unusual
place to keep a ring with a diamond the size of a robin’s egg. But what did
she know about rich people? This guy didn’t even have a security system. A
library probably made perfect sense to him.
Kierse steeled herself for what could be the first sign of trouble, but
everything was as it should be. She maneuvered around a mahogany desk
with a gilded lamp and sleek black leather insert, between a pair of couches,
and to the silent grandfather clock that showed the time was nearly
midnight. With a breath, she eased the door open and peered down the
hallway illuminated by soft, bracketed light.
Her eyes darted everywhere at
once—taking in the sitting room at the end of the hallway that she’d only
ever seen through binoculars, the grand staircase to her right, the polished
wood floors, the lush, filthy-rich interior. On silent feet, she crept down the
smooth hardwood floors and flipped the front door lock.
The first rule of thieving: always have an exit strategy.
“So far, so good,” she whispered to Ethan as she stood in the empty
house.
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