The Mysterious Cabinet Chap. 12

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Rose wakes up the next morning feeling tired. Last night she had gathered some evidence that she needs to show Sasha and hopefully, she’ll be able to read the faded writing on the pieces of wood she bagged and brought back with her. However, right now she needs to open her garage and take care of business.

Rose takes a shower and afterwards gets ready for the day. It was a good thing she didn’t need to go far. Once she is dressed for work, Rose heads to the garage and start prepping for the day. She knew her crew would be coming in soon. She goes through the repair tickets and assign them to the right people. She looks outside and noticed people were already lining up for state inspections.

“Who’s in the mood for fresh doughnuts?” Craig comes walking into the garage with two boxes of Krispy Kreme doughnuts.

“What type did you get, Craig?” Rose looks at Craig as he carries two boxes into the shop.

“Glazed and chocolate covered doughnuts. Fresh off the assembly line.” Craig saw the sign in the window lite up announcing freshly made doughnuts.

“Cool.” Rose grabs a stack of napkins and walk over to Craig.

She takes one of each out of the boxes. She loved freshly made doughnuts, especially, doughnuts from Krispy Kreme itself.

“How much did they cost you?”

“Don’t worry about paying me back, boss. This one is on me. You always treat us to lunch and such.” Craig liked working for Rose. She always tried to do nice things for her people.

“Speaking of lunch, do you think the guys will like pizza again or something different?” Rose liked treating her hard-working people to a good lunch every Friday.

“The guys like the pizzas you have been getting from Pizza Haven.” Craig loved the large pepperoni on the pizzas.

“Alright, I’ll put in an order for Friday.” Rose knew she’ll be spending fifty dollars or more on pizzas.

Once the guys start coming in, Rose gets to work double checking the books from yesterday.

Ciarán’s Townhouse:
Ciarán comes walking into his townhouse. He heads to the kitchen first and grabs a beer from the refrigerator. Just as he walks back into the living room, he spots his twin dressed all in black.

“Why are you dressed in black?” Ciarán takes a swig from the beer bottle.

“We had a visitor while you were out.” Louis looks at his twin and wonder why the person he encountered was snooping around their home.

“Is anything missing?” Ciarán was concerned that the person might have found the cabinet.

“Nothing is missing, but the woman did find a few things in your workshop. What I don’t know, but she did seem interested in it.” Louis had
watched quietly as the mysterious woman looked around. He could tell it was a woman by the silhouette of the body.

“What were they wearing?” Ciarán was wondering if it was Wildfire herself.

“A black outfit like mine with a helmet. She had a slim backpack attached to her back. Also, she was able to block my sword strike with her arm.”

“Anything else unique about this mysterious woman?”

“Yeah, she blew the window out with some sort of flat disk device and caused me to slip like I was running on black ice.” Louise was surprised by whatever chemical the woman threw down. He nearly twisted his ankle slipping on whatever the substance was.

“That’s not Wildfire’s style. She doesn’t wear a helmet, but she does uses special gimmicks to cause distractions and slowing people down.”

“Then, if it wasn’t her. Who was it then? One of the other masked vigilantes that operate here in California?” Louise knew there were at least six costume vigilantes that operated in California. He’s been keeping track of their movement from several sources.

“I don’t know who they are, but we can always set a trap for them to find out.” An idea was starting to from in Ciarán’s mind on how he would do it.

“Well, its late and I’m tired. Let’s get some sleep and start planning this out tomorrow.” Ciarán finishes his beer and heads towards his bedroom.

Louise follows behind him and heads towards his own room. He hopes whatever trick his brother has planned will work.

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