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I try to look into her eyes to remember any small detail about her that I can recollect to the authorities when the time comes.
That is,ifI get a chance to recollect with the authorities.
What if they just make me cooperate and then kill me? What if this is the end?
The man waves his gun at me. “You’ve got a safe in here.”
My eyebrows lift in surprise.
The safe is a secret. In order to protect the club upstairs, money is kept down here in my office. No one knows this.
There’s even a fake safe in the nightclub office to throw people off the scent.
“No, I don’t.”
“Don’t fucking lie to us, bitch.” The back of the woman’s hand connects with my face, hard, and the sting hurts like hell.
How do they know?
“I’m sorry. You’re right. There…there is a safe in here.”
“Well, get up and open it.” The bark in the man’s voice is clear.
I push the chair away from the desk, then flinch as the woman’s hand lands on my shoulder. “Slowly.”
How the hell do they expect me to think or be calm or act a certain way when they have a gun in my face?
However, adrenaline takes over.
I’m outside my body, watching as it moves, going to the safe, my hand opens the cabinet against the wall that hides it.
I punch in the code on instinct alone, an intuitivememory underneath the main thought,Please don’t kill me, please don’t kill me.
The safe beeps, green light emitted from the display and the locking mechanism.
“Move.” The woman shoves me out of the way by the shoulder.
I remain in the exact spot she shoved me to, up against my office wall, trying not to look the gun in the eye.
For a second, I consider if I can somehow escape, but the man is too big. His shoulders practically fill the entire doorframe.
I try not to watch as she collects all the cash from the weekend.
Weekend money is deposited first thing Monday morning. That’s how we do it here.
With everything in my personal life out of sorts, I dropped the ball on that despite the club being closed.
Could the robbers know this? Or was this sheer luck?
Has to be luck, right?
I don’t recognize the voices of the people, nor do I see any familiarity in their eyes.
“It’s even better than we thought” The woman laughs.
I look at the woman. “You know there are cameras.”
She doesn’t respond.
