Let me just say this up front. I'm a thief, it's what I do. Along with my partner Steve we make a very nice living. Not banks or anything like that. Cars and houses mainly. Steve's the electronic genius. I like to think I'm the brains, choosing the mark, knowing what's worth taking and what's not, stuff like that.
I'd been casing this one house in the exclusive part of town for a while. Their schedule was like clockwork. He was older, very distinguished looking, in excellent shape. He would jump in his convertible BMW in his suit and tie around 9ish in the morning and head off to his corner office, and return home anywhere from 5 to 6 o'clock in the evening, just in time for dinner, every day. She was his trophy wife. Blonde, tall, and buxom, much younger than her husband. Every Wednesday the Acme cleaning service would arrive around 10 and leave around noon. At 11 o'clock she would exit the house in what looked to be a little, white tennis outfit, jump into her Mercedes, and head of to the local country club. She would come home right around 3 o'clock. Every Wednesday. Like clockwork. The driveway wrapped around the back of the house. It was perfect.
On the day of the strike Steve waited for the misses to leave but while the cleaning crew was still there. He sent a signal from the van to jam the wireless security cameras. Then he snuck in when the cleaners were in another part of the house and placed a mechanism on one of the security keypads in the house that would allow him to jam that signal from outside, also.
When the cleaners left Steve jammed the camera signal again and we pulled the van around back, where he jammed the keypad signal. A simple pick of the lock and we were in.
We went through the front of the house. I told Steve which items were worth taking. As he started to load the van, I went to the back of the house, looking for jewelry and the safe deposit box.
Man, this dude took care of this woman! Beautiful diamond rings, necklaces, and earrings. All kinds of 18k gold goodies. Precious jewels. This was going to be a good day.
I was about to wrap up my third bedroom when Steve came running into the room.
"She's home! The bitch is in the driveway! Fuck!"
"Are you fucking kidding me?! Shit!" Think. Think. I had to come up with something and fast.
"Okay, get on the floor on the other side of the bed," I told him. "I've got this." If all went well, we were about to expand our criminal deeds. Might as well because we were fucked either way.
We could hear her walking through the house. "Rosario? Rosario?!" She must think part of the cleaning crew is still here. My heart was racing.
I heard her coming down the hallway, still calling out for Rosario. She walked past the doorway I was hiding behind. After she passed I pounced.
I jumped into the hallway, startling her, spinning her in my direction. I tackled her, catching her below her shoulder, pinning her arm against her body. We both flew into the wall, knocking several pictures to the floor. We bounced off of the wall and fell to the floor with a thud, my body landing on hers. There was a short struggle but with my larger frame sitting just on her chest, pinning her arms against her body, the worst of the struggle came to an end.
She started to scream, still trying to break free. This brought a hard slap across her face, snapping her head to the side and leaving a red hand print on her cheek. This obviously caught her by surprise and silenced her.
"Look, I don't want to hurt you. If you cooperate we all walk out of here in one piece, but..." The screaming and thrashing around underneath me resumed, bringing another slap across her face, her cheek turning a bright shade of red. This one brought a growl from her with daggers shooting out of her eyes.
"Fuck!" She yelled. "Fine. Fine!" She paused. "My husband will be home any minute," she said defiantly.
"Well, for one, I know that's a lie. And, if it isn't, we'll just have to put a bullet in his brain." Steve and I never carried a weapon. We didn't need a weapons charge on top of robbery if we ever got clipped. But she didn't need to know that.
I hollered towards the bedroom, "Hey, Stevie, look what we caught ourselves." A look of surprise raced across her face at the fact there were two of us there.
Steve came out from his hiding spot. "Damn, she's a hottie, isn't she?!" The daggers were now pointed in his direction. "What're we gonna do with her?"
"Hmmmmm, I don't know." I looked down at her. "What do you think? What should we do with you?"
"Fuck off!"
"That's not very nice," I said sarcastically. "All we wanted to do was borrow some of your stuff. Then you had to come home early and ruin a perfectly good plan. This is really your fault, you know that, right?"
"Fuck you."
"Okay," I said, shrugging my shoulders. "I'm going to get up. Are you going to be a good girl, or am I going to have to smack you again?"
I couldn't tell if her face was turning red with rage or it was red from the slaps. Either way, she was pissed. "I'll be a good girl," she hissed.
I got up and, true to her word, she didn't cause a fuss. I reached down, grabbed her long blonde hair from the back of her head, and lifted her up.
"Come on, Princess, let's go." Her hands went straight to mine trying to release the pressure.
"Ow, ow, ow, goddammit, that hurts!"
I started to drag her down the hallway by her hair, pulling her backwards. She was leaned backwards, stumbling trying to keep up, still trying to pull the hair from my hands.
"Hey, what are you doing?! Where are we going?!" Without a word I continued to drag her down the hallway, with Steve right behind.
We finally reached the master bedroom. I spun her around by her hair and threw her against the bed.
"Hey...hey...what..." she said, looking around, rubbing her head trying to sooth the pain.
"I dunno, Stevie, what do you think we should do with the princess here?"
"I can think of a couple things," he said with a chuckle and a sly grin.
"Yeah, me, too," I said as I scratched my chin.
"No, don't...please, don't." She looked at us with pleading eyes. "Take whatever you want. Take it and leave. Please."