Corporate Thieves

Chapter 3

I spent the next six hours explaining everything about Odonna. If we were going to rob the bank, we'll have to be flawless. We had nine months to plan this, it might seem like a lot of time but it isn't half the time we needed.

Everybody looked tired after the talk, it was already 2am the next morning, we called the meeting to an end before we all went to sleep.

I woke up the next morning with a headache worse than a hangover, I took some pain killers and wrapped myself around a blanket. I must've been sick, not at this time.

As I laid down my vision went dark, I saw myself in an empty space, then trees started appearing, roads and people followed, then a bungalow sat in the middle of all this, I went inside and I saw my mother, I ran towards her and wanted to give her a hug but I ran through her. My eyes started feeling glossy. I saw my elder sister, and I burst into tears when I couldn't hug her, then Olivia walked out of a room, she took my hand and comforted me.

I woke up immediately to find beads of sweat on my face, I reached for the lamp beside my bed and flung it across the room and buried my head in my pillow to cry.

It didn't take long before Olivia barged into my room, I hated for her to see me like this, I know she misses them too and think of them every time.

She walked over to my bed and just sat there, she didn't say anything and I pulled her in for a hug.

"I'll never leave you" I said still trying to fight back my tears.

"I'll never leave you" she said back. I didn't even notice she was crying too.

After several minutes of sitting on my bed together, we left the room to meet up with the others, they were already eating.

"Eat enough, today's going to be long" I said before walking over to the dining.

"Jake, I know we have the motivation to do this, but that still doesn't make it possible" Emberlei says innocently.

"We begin our review in two hours, we decide then" I respond almost immediately.

Just as I finish speaking, my phone rings and I excuse myself, the call is from a private number.

"Hello, Jake speaking" I say immediately I take the call, I had my suspicions on who was at the other end.

I hear a small giggle before she speaks up "Mr Jake Hart, how's your team holding up" Karen says.

"We need help" I don't hesitate to explain to her, we needed support, the information we had could not even get us to half of the mission.

"And in what way may I help the corporate thieves" Karen says almost mockingly.

I decide to ignore the tone of her voice and go straight to the point "We need to know everything about the bank" I say hoping to get a positive response.

"I thought you would have everything already, I'm actually a bit disappointed, but if that's all you need, you'll get it, it'll be delivered within the hour" Karen responds.

I was a bit impressed by her, that information took us quite a while to gather and her having it shows how far she's ready to go with the heist.

"Karen?" Olivia asks expectantly.

"Yeah, she says info about the bank will come within the hour" I respond.

Everywhere goes silent for a while before Liam speaks up. "Ok, I'm just going to address the elephant in the room, this isn't like any of our other heists, we're robbing freaking Odonna, and I don't think being corporate is going to get us anywhere."