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On the surface, it was a simple enough plan. Gabriel would send Alba and Jimena — the two women who kept his brother’s house clean — on an errand to San Matías to get them out of the way for a few hours…and also to provide them with an alibi, just in case something went wrong and Vicénte suspected them of stealing his precious books. They would be seen by enough people in San Matías that it would be clear they had nothing to do with the theft.
With Alba and Jimena gone, Gabriel would cast the illusion on Cassandra and Tony to make them look like the two women, and they would enter his house through the kitchen as usual, then go to the room on the ground floor of the house that he’d turned into his library. Once there, they would fill up the nylon bags Cassandra had stashed in her purs
