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Robbery
6 am
“Remind me why
we are doing this at this unholy hour,” Yvonne said as Xandra pulled up into
the staff car park at the rear of the branch.
“Because it’s
in our contract?”
Yvonne nodded
and sighed as they both got out of the car.
She was wearing a cream blazer and knee length skirt, with matching
heels and a white blouse under her jacket, her hair slicked back and held in a
bun at the back of her head. Xandra had
long black hair which fell over the collar of her blue trouser suit, a white
blouse under that.
Both women
walked to the rear entrance of the branch, the heels of their black shoes
clicking on the concrete surface as Yvonne looked at her phone.
“Got the entry
code?”
“Just arrived,”
she said with a smile as Xandra unlocked the rear entrance, both women walking
in as she approached a panel on the wall and typed in a code. She watched as the lights turned from red to
green, and said “Well, that’s the alarm off Xandra.
“Xandra?”
“Yvonne…”
As she slowly
turned round, she saw her f4riend, her eyes wide as she held her hands up in
the air. Behind her were two men,
wearing boiler suits and with black balaclava masks covering their heads. One of them walked round, and she saw the
sawn off shotgun in his gloved hands as he said “all right, kid – hands up so
that we can see them.”
“Shit – a
robbery?”
“Got it in one
– so are you going to give us any trouble?”
Yvonne looked
at Xandra, and then shook her head as she slowly raised her hands.
“Good,” the man
said as he waved the gun, “both of you, walk slowly into the branch floor, and stand
perfectly still.”
“Just do as
they say,” Xandra said quietly, Yvonne nodding as they both walked in front of
the armed robbers. The branch main floor
was deserted, the lights on as the man said “right, stop there.” He walked round and looked at them as he smiled,
and said “the vault is on a time lock – when does it open.”
“Six thirty,”
Yvonne said quietly.
“Good – when it
opens, you two are going to fill the bags my friend has with the notes inside,
and then we get away.”
“And what about
us,” Xandra whispered.”
“Oh, we’re
going to make sure you stay where you are…”
6.30 pm
Both women
looked at each other as they heard the clanking sound.
“Right on time,” the masked robber said, “shall we?”
“Please, don’t
hurt us…”
“Then do as we
say,” he growled, and then he put a finger to his lips as they heard two fresh
voices.
“So they’ve
opened up?”
“Looks that way
– come on, I have what you need in my office.”
Yvonne and
Xandra swallowed as a woman a few years older than them walked into the
branch. She was wearing glasses and had
long blonde hair, The collar of her off white blouse open and over the lapels
of her black low cut blazer. This was
matched with a knee length skirt, and she was wearing three inch stiletto
heels.
With her was a
younger woman, who looked very like her, wearing a round necked red sweater,
and grey pants which had the legs tucked into mid-calf grey leather boots with
a short heel.
“Shit,” she
said quietly as she saw the other two women standing there with their hands in
the air, “Kay, you’re being robbed.”
“Very astute.”
The older woman
stared at the masked and armed men, before she said “Well, I think you’re right
Alex. Yvonne, Xandra -you followed
protocol?”
“We did Kay,”
Xandra said, “they want us to empty the vault which has just opened.”
Kay slowly
nodded, as she said “Let me guess, they let you disable the alarm first.”
“Of course we
did,” the second intruder said as he opened a canvas bag, and took out a length
of rope before he walked behind Alex, and took her hands behind her back. “And now we have an added incentive,
ladies. Work quickly – and this young
lad here does not get hurt.”
“Kay?”
“Be brave,” The
branch manager said as she watched the masked man use the rope to secure her
sister’s wrists together behind her back.
Alex nodded as the other man waved the sawn-off shotgun.
“You three have
a job to do – take the canvas bags which are in there, and start emptying the
vault.”
Kay nodded to
Yvonne and Xandra as they walked over and collected the grey sacks, seeing the
ropes inside the bag before they were marched to the vault. As they did, the other intruder passed some
rope round Alex’s arms and used it to force them against her sides, before he said
“right kid -sit down against the counter, and stretch your legs out.”
7.15 am
The three women
worked quietly, filling the sacks with the bundles of notes as their armed
guard watched over them, and then closing them with the ropes that fed through
the top before they put them to one side.
“Is that it
all?”
Kay nodded as
she said “now what?”
“Now, we make
sure you cannot raise the alarm,” he said as his partner came in . handing him
some coils of ropes. He handed one to
Kay, and then pointed to Yvonne as he said “bind her wrists together behind her
back – I’ll take care of the other one, so do it as I do, and nobody gets
hurt.”
“I’m sorry,”
Alex said quietly as Yvonne put her hands behind her back, biting her lower lip
as she felt the cords rubbing on her skin when her boss pulled it tight round
her wrists. She looked at Xandra, who
was also feeling the pressure as her own wrists were bound together, flexing her
fingers as the intruder took the rope between her arms as well.
“Right – use
the longer rope to bind her arms to her sides.”
“We can debrief
on what’s happened, and what is happening, later,” Kay said quietly, Yvonne
nodding as her arms were forced against her sides, Kay copying the robber as
she took the rope round her upper arms and her stomach, and then tied the ropes
off behind her.
“Move,” the intruder
said, Yvonne and Xandra walking in front of Kay and the man as they went back
into the main area.
“Fhhkkhhnhhlll!”
“Are you all
right Alex,” Kay whispered as she saw her sister siting on the floor. She had her legs stretched out, a band of
white rope holding her ankles together and another round her legs below her
knees, silver tape pressed down over her mouth.
Her sister nodded as Yvonne and Xandra were forced to sit either side of
Alex, the second masked man grabbing more ropes and starting to bind Yvonne’s
ankles together.
“You,” the
first mans aid as he looked at Kay, “pick up those bags and come with me.”
Alex nodded as
the other two women felt the rope around their legs below their knees, forcing
them together as they tried not to panic.
Looking at the clock, they knew nobody else was due for another hour,
and they feared what might happen…
“Lips
together.”
Yvonne looked at
the masked man, who was smiling as he pressed the duct tape down firmly over her
mouth, before he did the same to Xandra.
The three women looked at each other, as Kay was brought back in, her
wrists now secured together behind her own back and ropes round her arms and
upper body, framing her chest.
“Remain calm, don’t
panic,” she said quietly, the other three nodding as she was made to sit, her ankles
and legs secured with more ropes as silver tape was pressed down over her mouth
as well.
The four women
looked at each other as the two men walked out of the rear of the building,
looking at the clock on the wall as the digits moved to 7.45.
“whhrhwhghnhhtdh?”
“Trrhhngdghtfrhh,”
Yvonne said as she motioned to Alex to turn round, Kay and Xandra nodding as
they tried to loosen the knots holding their wrists behind their back – with
little success as they also tried to twist their faces to get the tape loose
over their mouths.
8.40 am
As the two men
walked in, they saw the four bound and gagged women on the floor, the tape hanging
from Kay’s mouth as she looked over.
“Cal the police and get us free- NOW!”
6 pm
“I’ll get it,”
Alex said as she went to the door of the house, Kay nodding as she looked at
her mobile phone.
How are you?
Sore, and my
mouth aches.
The other
two? Your sister?
Glad you did
not hurt them much – the money?
Safe – we
will talk later…
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