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Chapter 14: The Wire

Torin tried the password three more times.

Every square stayed black.

"He's got whatever's on his system," he said. "He doesn't have mine. Mine are in a box downstairs with your name on it."

"He knows about the bar camera now," Gage said. "He knows you saw the policy."

"So what does he do?"

Torin didn't look up from the dark screens.

"What I'd do," he said. "Move whatever's left before anybody can stop it."

I opened my bank app on the couch.

Three hundred eighty-eight thousand dollars.

Still there.

Still mine, for tonight.

"The bank opens at nine," Gage said.

"Then we're on the sidewalk at eight."

We were on the sidewalk at seven forty.

Gage wore his navy fire department T-shirt because it was the cleanest thing in Torin's dryer.

I wore the one blazer I owned, from my nursing school pinning, over a T-shirt.

The branch was on Scottsdale Road, eight blocks from Dwight's office.

I'd thought about that the whole way there.

When the doors unlocked, the branch manager came out to meet us herself.

The rest of this chapter is part of the paid portion of the series. Chapters 1–12 of Taken While I Slept by My Stepbrother and His Friends are free to read — start from the beginning, then unlock the rest with coins in the app.

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