Chapter 276

Mirabella adjusted her cap firmly on her head. Just a second before the jammer ceased its buzzing, she took down the two guards stationed at the corridor entrance with swift grace, leaving them sprawled on the floor. With no one left to stand in her way, she blended seamlessly into the crowd and strolled out of the gallery without a hitch.

As she departed, a chilling sense of danger grazed her, but she didn’t bother to look back.

After a brief blackout, the gallery’s lights flickered back to life, and the normality was restored as if by magic. The shrill of the alarm had been silenced in less than a minute.

The chaos that had erupted was swiftly managed by the security team, and order was reinstated. Aside from those who had exited through the emergency passageways, and a small cut on the glass case that once secured the emerald, it was as if nothing had transpired.

Those visitors who hadn’t yet left were cordially escorted to the VIP lounge. When Wyatt ascended to the second–floor gallery to report, he was met with a glare from his boss that could curdle milk. He didn’t dare say more than necessary.

James stood before the now–vulnerable glass case. His eyes were fixated on the emerald inside. After a few seconds, he tilted his head slightly. “Let everyone go.”

Wyatt blinked in surprise. “But we haven’t finished screening everyone…”

we’re looking for has already left,” James

“Boss, those two have spilled the beans. The person who took the emerald and then

aware of someone approaching him at the time. He hadn’t expected the intruder’s speed and agility,

He asked his team through the earpiece about any updates. Seconds. later, Wyatt relayed, “The person

Curtis turned to Wyatt.

out his phone, showing Curtis the snapshot taken from

the individual’s head was covered with the cap, never once lifted, which concealed not only the face but

in the gallery, there were no

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inquiries, it was clear that no one, not even the guards at the main entrance or the two who had been knocked out, had noticed the person

nondescript, and although he had seen the cap in the surveillance room before, he hadn’t paid close attention to the person beneath it.

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