A Plain-Dealing Villain
“-- A Plain-Dealing Villain 32.A little over an hour later, I crouched silently on the flower shop roof with Caitlin at my side. We’d texted the details back and forth, to keep from being overheard through the open skylight, and she wordlessly knotted a strand of rope around me. The stout yellow coils slid under and around my thighs, circled my waist, and looped at my shoulders, forming a makeshift harness. It wasn’t exactly Mission: Impossible levels of technology, but we made do with what we h...ad. I crawled back to the edge of the skylight, carefully oiling the hinges. I didn’t know if they were squeaky, but we couldn’t afford a single stray sound. I gave Caitlin a thumbs-up. She looked back over the edge of the roof and waved. Down below, that would be Bentley’s signal to start the show. I imagined him marching into the flower shop, cradling the shabbiest thing he could find on short notice: a wilting Happy Graduation wreath lined with half-deflated balloons. A door between the front of the shop and the back room hung halfway open, and I could hear Bentley’s voice below as he boomed, “This is grotesquely unacceptable, and I demand to speak to your manager at once!”MoreLess
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