Chapter 8: Taking Chances, a Harvey Specter/ 2 Broke Girls fanfiction

Max and Mike scoped the perimeter and were pleasantly surprised that there was only one guy guarding the estate and he was a sleeper. ‘I guess the country was truly in a recession and unable to pay for good help’, Mike thought unable to believe their stroke of luck.

 

Hours earlier, Max had drawn a blueprint of the property and the zones that triggered the alarms based on memory. They quietly sneaked to the back door.

 

“Crap!” Max said looking at the number pad, she had forgotten about that.

“Let’s just go back.” Mike said.

“Wait! If I know Caroline as well as I do, she probably has some sort of clue as to what the passcode is lying around somewhere.” Max said, dashing towards the shed. She frantically flipped over some of the items until she saw what she was looking for. A horseshoe pinned on the side of the wall with the name chestnut engraved on it. She flipped it over and handed it to Mike. True enough the digits were there.

“How did you know?” He asked.

“I know Caroline.” She replied as they made their way to the backdoor and into Martin Channing’s office.

‘The office was pristine. She was like her father in so many ways’ Max thought.

The office was hardly that of a billionaires. It was simple and other than a couple of pictures of Caroline growing up it was rather bare. They fumbled with the drawers of his desk, but they were locked.

Mike tried to pick the lock with a paper clip. Max laughed quietly and called him a silly little boy. Max decided to test her luck and grabbed the pictures of Caroline on his bookshelf and started to open each frame.

The first three were empty. 

‘Three down and two to go’ she thought.

She went for the fourth: Empty again.

And then the last one: Empty

Max sighed. She thought that, Martin was like his daughter, Caroline. A foolish assumption, but she didn’t have any other bets.

Mike glanced at the mess Max had made. He picked up a key embedded at the edge of one of the frames and said, “Good job, Black!”

They returned to the desk and started pulling out the drawers. Just like his office his desk drawers were bare. There were some photos and cards probably gifts Caroline had given her father through the years and his laptop. Max and Mike took the laptop and ran. Not wanting to press their luck any further.

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