Gold Rush

Chapter two

Charlotte arrived at the team's headquarters on her motorbike, the engine roaring as she pulled up in front of the building. She took off her helmet, revealing her black hair and green eyes, and walked confidently towards the entrance.

Nineball ran to open the door and hugged her friend. "Charlotte! Hey hot stuff, this is Debbie Ocean, the "leader" here" Nine said rolling her eyes.

Debbie came to greet her. "Welcome, Charlotte," she said, shaking her hand. "We're glad you decided to come."

"Yeah, yeah," Charlotte replied, smiling. "It's nice to meet you, Debbie. But we'll see how glad I'll be to be here since Ocean never means any good."

Debbie was shocked. "You knew my brother?"

Charlotte rolled her eyes. "He was very persistent, but at some point, he understood I much prefer women's company."

"Well, I guess it's great we're all women here," Debbie said.

Charlotte replied, "That's also the main reason I didn't turn and run off."

Debbie led Charlotte inside and introduced her to the rest of the team.

Just then, Lou walked in, surprised to see a strange motorbike parked in front of her loft. "Whose bike is that?" she asked, looking around.

"It's mine," Charlotte said, stepping forward.

Lou's eyes lit up, she looked at Charlotte's whole figure. When Nineball was talking about her hacker friend, she definitely didn't expect to see this tall, gorgeous woman who even rides a freaking bike "I was eyeing this model for god knows how long, you will have to tell me about it"

Charlotte grinned and opened her mouth to answer when Debbie cleared her throat, bringing their attention back to the task at hand. "Lou, this is Charlotte, the hacker"

Lou shook Charlotte's hand. "Welcome to the team."

When the time for telling Charlotte about their plan came, Debbie was struggling to bring herself to blindly trust someone new. While the team listened to Charlotte and Nineball catching up, she voiced her concerns to the rest of the rest of them, but not so quietly as she thought.

"I'm not sure we can trust her. Everyone here is doing it for the money, but Nineball said Charlotte is already rich. What's her motivation to do this if not money?"

Debbie went on and on with all of her reasons, when Charlotte stood up, interrupting Debbie's monologue.

"I can just leave, you know. It's not like I was the one wanting to be here. But since I am, I might as well help you get into the Met Gala security system."

Everyone was shocked. Debbie stopped in her tracks and looked at Charlotte.

"Nobody said a word about the Met Gala. How do you..." Debbie looked at Nine, trying to find out if she said something to Charlotte but found the hacker already shaking her head.

Charlotte smirked at Debbie and said,

"While you were giving your impressive speech, I had the time to figure out what was going on. You're not very undercover here with all the pictures of Daphne Kluger, the museum, the jewelry. Also, Nine has the tabs open on her computer. Knowing your family history, Miss Ocean, it doesn't take a genius to realize."

"Well, seems like now we have to trust her anyway." Amita smiled awkwardly.

Nineball was tired of Debbie grilling her friend "Jeez guys, I already told you like a million times you can trust her. Do y'all think I want my ass to end up in jail? Just tell Char the whole plan already and leave her alone."

Charlotte could understand Debbie's concerns but she was also getting impatient, "So?"

Debbie sighed "We're planning a heist. We're going to steal the Toussaint, it's worth 150 million dollars, and we are going to steal it right from the neck of Daphne Kluger."

Charlotte looked at her skeptically "Well, that's ambitious."

"I have been planning this for years and we have everything under control. Except for one thing." Debbie said confidently.

"And that is?"

Debbie smirked "As you geniously figured, the Met's security system. They updated it and Nineball needs your help to hack into it."

Charlotte nodded "Well, I'll do my best to help. But we need to be very careful. This is a high-risk operation."

Debbie prepared white board and many photos "Right, you better sit down so I can explain the details"

Charlotte nodded, she was quite interested in Debbie's mastermind plan, she really hoped this Ocean was the smarter one, but she had a lot of faith, Debbie was a woman after all.

The explanation took way longer than Charlotte expected, but it was worth it. She wasn't surprised all six women here jumped on Debbie's plan. She knew very well that Nine was doing some illegal stuff all the time, she didn't like it, so if she helped with this plan, it could help Leslie open the bar she wants and maybe she can stop with those illegal activities. Or they can all end up in prison, including Charlotte. Well, she will not think about that.

They all agreed hacking into the system and moving the cameras would be a process, so Charlotte will move into the loft and will help and back up everything if needed. One of the team members was more than happy about it, and it was not Nineball.