Page 109 of Tell Me All Your Lies

“Here you go,” the bartender says as he slides the drinks over.

Grant pays in cash and turns to hand me mine.

“Thank you.”

“Cheers.”

We clink glasses and keep observing the room.

“There are four cameras on the door that will be an issue.”

“Then I clocked six cameras in the route there.”

“That’s not bad,” I say.

“Not at all.”

Grant and I both hold onto our drinks to blend in with the crowd.

“Ready?” he asks.

“Let’s go. We’ll set these down over there,” I answer while pointing to a table of discarded drinks.

We meander over in that direction, trying to act as naturally as possible. Almost simultaneously, we set the full glasses down on the table.

I pull out a device and start tapping away.

“That’s how the cameras will be cut?”

“Yes.”

A few more taps and bingo.

“Ready, in three, two, one. Cut.”

I press the button that shuts down all the cameras in the casino. Grant and I close the distance to the door and type in thecode quickly. The commotion of the cameras being off allows us to slip in undetected.

Guards around the room are being notified in their earpieces that something is up. As the door closes behind us, the adrenaline kicks in.

We run down the hallways as fast as we can and finally reach the destination. Dozens of red lasers cross every which way to the door.

“Try the code,” I say.

Grant enters it, and nothing happens.

“Try something else.”

Grant types in another code, but nothing happens again.

“What’s the plan?” he asks.

“I’ve got this,” I say.

I pull out another device and hook it up to the control panel.

“Time is almost up,” Grant says.

I push a few buttons, and it starts to run numbers on it.

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