After receiving the combinations for each briefcase from Victora, Aaran had come back to the room and changed the combinations. As we walked, Beattie told me “He said we couldn’t take any chances that Victora might double-cross us. This way, the money is inaccessible to anyone but us and those we give the combination to.”
I thought that was pretty genius on her boyfriend’s part, and unlike me, Aaran had a mind of steel so he wouldn’t forget the combinations. That was something I couldn’t guarantee from myself, given that numbers tended to leak out of my head like melting ice from a colander.
We were just a block or two from the auction now, and while we’d made a very careful plan earlier in the day, my nerves made me feel like I needed to go over it again. “So first, we’ll go into the au
