Chapter 14
Then, about four months after the original job, everything almost went south for Fey and Dirk.
The item they were supposed to acquire, an antique necklace, was in a small, but very prestigious, jewelry shop on the second floor of a retail/business building on the south side of the city.
The first thing they did was pay a visit to the shop—not however looking at all like their real selves. Wearing a dark brown wig and with the proper makeup and clothes, Fey looked closer to twenty-two than her real age of nineteen. Dirk had let his hair grow out and, for their visit, he’d dyed it blond. Wearing a suit and tie, he looked like a well-to-do business man accompanying his young fiancée to pick out an engagement ring.
While Fey kept the clerk busy showing her ring after ring, appar
