Lady Boss by Jordan Silver Page A

delusion that as a woman I shouldn't get
involved in such things. He'd learn.
     I
scaled the outer walls and rolled into the shade. Counting down the seconds in
my head, I waited for the strobe to pass before making a run for it to the side
of the house.
         I knew from recon
that the lights were on special timers that made a sweep every five minutes
less ten seconds.
     Security was stationed in the back and front of the house
leaving the sides unattended, maybe because the high walls and guard dogs were
supposed to see to them.
    I'd neutralized the dogs first; a little sleepy time steak was all
I needed for that, they were three very well fed but heavily dosed dogs napping
in the hedges beneath those walls.
    No
one will be looking for them since they only paid attention if the dogs gave an
alert. Idiots.
        I lifted the sleeve
of the safety vest, shirt, whatever it is that Shane had given me, was that
only days ago, it felt like forever.
     He
was going to be so mad, I couldn't think about that now though, I needed to
concentrate or get my ass killed, one reassuring thing, if they got the jump on
me, my father and uncle not to mention mobster boy, would tear them apart.
Little solace if my ass was dead but it'll have to do.
        I rock climbed my way up
the side to the balcony on the second floor. Making sure there was no one in
the room, I attached the window cutter to the pane of the window and silently
cut out a circle before pulling it back with the piece of glass attached.
     Next I reached my hand in and turned the lock in the window before
sliding it ever so gently up.
     I'm
in.
         Holding my breath I
crept along the wall, it was still early, barely midnight, and since his old
man had bought it in bed I'm thinking this wuss will probably be too scared to
stay by himself for some time so he was probably surrounded by people. I might
have to wait around here for a while.
    Oh
joy, that would just give Tommy Lucchese more reason to want to lock me away
somewhere. 
        I used the heat
seeking device I'd filched from Shane's safe room earlier to find the bodies in
the house.
    There
were two goons sitting in what looked like a kitchen, in another room someone
was on a phone, and in a bedroom some chick was riding someone, I'm guessing
with their boss on high alert it had to be the esteemed Carlo Stacco getting
his knob twisted.
        I hefted the sack on my
back as I checked the coordinates to the room. They were one floor up. Everyone
else was on the second and first floor. The blue prints showed that the room
Stacco was using was the attic room, only a bedroom and bathroom up there with
a bird view window.
    I had
no idea when or if the chick was leaving, I also knew that if she left for a
second I would have to use that window of time to do what I came here for, but
then the discovery would be sooner than I wanted and I will be heading out that
bird view window on the third floor. Shit.
        I had no choice, I
was sure if I made it out alive Flanagan would never let me see the light of
day again, it was now or never.
    I silently made my way from floor to floor, the two in the kitchen
were no problem they were too far away to give me worries for now, it was the
one on the second floor with me that could pose a problem.
     Thankfully
he was yapping away on the phone, when he paused I stopped and held my breath
as he told the person on the other end to carry on, he thought he'd heard
something but it was nothing, I released my breath and kept crawling along the
hall way. The damn place was lit up like a Fourth of July fireworks show.
         There was movement
in the attic room as I watched the screen. This was a neat little toy, maybe
I'd keep it for future endeavors, that's if Lucky Luciano let me live.
     It looked like chicky was gathering her things, good. She
headed into the other room which looked like the bathroom and turned on the
shower.
     Damn this thing was good.
     I hurried my