Chapter Fourteen
On the ground floor, I burst out into the casino lobby and tore toward the front door. Amazingly, there weren’t any police or security guards waiting to arrest me when I emerged, and not even Belinda seemed to care. The shrill shrieks of the alarm wailing across town from the bank seemed to have erased everything else.
Still, I reached into my pocket and flung Belinda’s badge in her direction. It spun away and disappeared somewhere in the sea of the casino’s red carpet, but I didn’t have the time or the luxury to care.
Outside, the cool air blasted me along with the needling, skull-piercing sound of the bank’s alarm. It wasn’t likely I would beat the police with the alarm making that much noise, but I had to try.
I dashed down Fang Street, holding my robes in both of m
