Jack Of Diamonds

Jack of Diamonds

 

“As a jewel thief, you go for the challenge. It's dangerous, it's glamorous, there's an adrenalin rush."

 

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The Thief of Hearts Affair

 

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The setting is a black tie only, evening wedding, being held at Iscoyd Park, Wales.

 

A large number of wealthy guests from both the Bride and Groom’s servant wealthy families are invited.

 

After the multitude of brilliantly decked-out guests, brimming with flashy jewelry had entered the reception area, the bridal party came in to add to the alluring ambiance.

 

The bride was wearing a designer gown of white taffeta, along with a collection of diamonds that one watching almost needed sunglasses to observe. The 14 bridesmaids were in long silk salmon-coloured gowns. Of the 12 bridesmaids, the 10 older ones wore off-shoulder gowns, and the younger two teenage bridesmaids wore gowns with hanging scalloped shoulders.

 

All 14 were wearing copious ropes of expensively gleaming white pearls.

 

They all settled in and the lights dimmed, the music from the band started up, and the reception officially began.

 

Security was tight, considering the wealth of valuables on display that evening.

 

Tempting targets for thievery.

 

But no matter how guarded an event such as this was, there were bound to be those uninvited guests with devious intent who managed to slip through the cracks.

 

Also slipping through the cracks were some very well-dressed youthfully gullible ladies sporting some rather pricy jewellery who were unwisely being left on their own.

 

The vulnerable, silky soft underbelly of the party as it were.

 

Seen by some as an easy way to garner bits of telling information on their family's vulnerabilities, or as easy marks to relieve of any valuables they may have on their person.

 

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Into this mix a handsome young man, looking far younger than his actual age, was dancing with a young blonde girl of the vulnerably sweet age of 16.

 

He was clad in a most definitely tailored black tux, with a bright red cummerbund. His roving blue eyes twinkled as he smiled down at his young dance partner whose entire being quivered with enthrallment at his attention

 

He also wore a nattily trimmed down thin beard, and his fingers were well manicured. A gold ring was on his left pinkie. A fancy Rolex watch on his left wrist.

 

His dance partner Ginny was wearing an absolutely adorable deep canary yellow silk dress with long sleeves and a slit up the leg to about mid-thigh. The collar went up about a centimeter up her neck, the whole effect being adorably cute.

 

Ginny’s jewellery was also adorably cute, and just as adorably expensive.

 

Consisting of 7 centimeters long gold earrings set with yellow diamonds

( £2,500), a long yellow diamond set chain with a pendant in the shape of a gold owl with ruby eyes, a yellow diamond-filled body, and folding wings, perched with ruby-tipped claws on a white diamond chip embedded solid gold branch(£16,000). A gold bracelet set with yellow diamonds(£4,500) wrapped around her left wrist, and a gold ruby and yellow diamond ring(3,500) on her left ring finger. Her hair was held off to one side by a glittering yellow diamond comb(£4,000)

 

The lad knew he had his dance partner under his command, and he now had her talking up about herself, her sister, and her parents with, unbridled, unguarded, ease.

 

Then from over his chittering partner's shoulder, his eye caught a brite flicker by the wall where the side alcove sitting areas were located.

 

He managed to maneuver his unwary dance partner over for a closer look.

 

A very pretty package indeed was sitting there all alone, looking very sad. She also was dressed and jewelled like a million bucks.

 

The dance now couldn’t end soon enough for him, especially now that he had drained Ginny of some very pertinent details about her family.

 

When the dance ended, he took one last soaking look at his dance partners' richly glittering, ravishingly valuable, owl-shaped pendant, and abruptly dismissed the now understandably confused young lady.

 

He had found richer prey.

 

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Cadie was a child of ultra-wealthy parents, all of 16, with makeup that had her looking more like 22.

 

Tonight she looked smashing, elegantly wearing a smoothly soft high-necked silk gown of deep violet, a shear bodice, long cuffed sleeves, and a dangling pleated skirt, that simply poured over her almost fully developed figure, from the gentle swells of her breasts, to her thin waist and along her curvy hips, then spilling out down along her legs till it lay sweeping at her ankles.

 

To complete the ensemble she was wearing purple satin pumps and carried a black satin clutch purse.

 

She had worn the same gown a fortnight ago at her Aunt’s equally formal wedding held up at Caer Beris Manor reception area.

 

Like she had at her aunt's wedding, Cadie was wearing diamonds. A lot of diamonds. Her Mum had not won the argument over that without her parents, or brother there with her, she should wear her pearls. instead.

 

She was one of many wealthy guests attending this black-tie evening wedding held at Iscoyd Park, Wales.

 

Cadie herself had been invited by a close classmate ((Lilly), who was a bridesmaid at the wedding. Other than Lilly, she knew no one there. And her friend, being a bridesmaid, was too busy to be hanging out with her.

 

This is why it was with a grateful thrill that a handsome young male who appeared to be only a few years older than her ( actually he was some 9 years her senior), came up and introduced himself to her as she was standing off watching the dancers at the entrance of one of the side alcove rooms.

 

After introducing himself(Sebastian)and learning her name(Cadie), he raised her hand and kissed a shimmery ringed finger in greeting, sending shivers of chills racing along her spine.

 

He gently guided her into a side alcove where several comfortable couches were located.

 

There they spent a good hour talking, telling each other about themselves.

 

He then rose, and politely he asked if they could have a dance.

 

Cadie nodded with euphoric enthusiasm and took his offered hand. He helped her up, and they went out to the dance floor.

 

It was a slow dance and he held her warm figure tightly against his. She could feel his heart beating quickly, she could tell that he was excited to be dancing with her.

 

She was also, her whole figure quivering with antsy exhilaration as his firm fingers gently stroked along her sleekly gown-covered figure.

 

He murmured into her ear

“You look very beautiful this evening Cadie. Perhaps even the prettiest young lady I’ve met this evening.”

 

She squirmed in his arms, like an excited puppy, as he complimented her in this fashion, the expensive chinchilla softness of her gown not lost under his fingertips.

 

Cadie turned her head away, blushing. Diamonds twinkling richly from her ears.

 

When the dance finished they stayed on the floor till the second one started and taking her in his arms the magic once again enveloped her, feeding her lonely hunger for companionship.

 

Cadie and her dance partner were in the thicke of it, dancing their little hearts and souls out. Bumping and sliding against one another, Cadie’s slippery gown performed the most fluid of provocative sliding motions along her partner's figure, allowing him a reason to hold no tighter less she slipped from his grasp.

 

Cadie was relishing, swimming in the feeling her rubbing breasts produced. Then the music ended all too soon and a swooning Cadie was led back to the alcove her partner kissing her hand as he mysteriously took leave.

 

Soon he was back Cadie felt her heart fluttering with sensuously filled excitement.

 

Sebastian apologized for leaving so abruptly, and with a sweet guilty expression, admitted to what he had been up to:

 

“I requested a slow dance! It should be coming up next,” he said with conviction.

“What about the girl you requested it for?” Cadie asked coyly, exhibiting a sexuality way beyond her years.

“There is no one, I was looking around to find the right one!” he teased in a most becoming manner.

“Rather like placing the cart before the horse!” She teased back

He smiled at that but did not answer, keeping his hand on my arm, not tightly, but there nonetheless!

 

Meanwhile, the music had stopped and he was right, a slow dance started, and most of the single girls fled, leaving the couples to stay out on the dancefloor.

He took young swooning Cadie by hand and they headed out, joined by several fresh couples.

 

The pair started discreetly apart, but he gently pulled Cadie in closer. She could feel his heart beating against her chest and thought something hard was beginning to bulge out just in between his hips. She pressed in closer, instinctively allowing her gown to slip up and over his hardened bulge as they danced. Cadie looked up, his eyes were closed.

 

Cadie Reached up and pulled the lapels of his tux jacket close to her. He responded by wrapping his arms around her silky soft waist, relishing in the softness of her fetchingly pretty gown.

 

It was perfect, Cadie’s heart started to beat a bit quicker, and the adrenalin started its all-too-welcomed tingling rush.

 

Then she leaned in close, placing her hands up around his neck, he responded by nuzzling his face into her shoulder.

 

The song ended, and the magic feeling came to a halt as he looked at his Rolex watch, apologizing that he had to leave the wedding, he had promised to meet up with a friend.

 

If he had only known he would have met someone like her he whispered into his dance partner’s diamond earring holding ear.

 

He left with a kiss on her hand, and a promise to try and meet up with her the next day, with a wink.

 

Sebastian left Cadie, who was literally holding ring sparkling fingers to her breast, feeling her heart thumping with exhilarating excitement.

 

For both of them, it had turned into a brilliant evening.

 

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Outside of the Iscoyd Park manor house, In a dark corner of the gardens, a figure waits in the shadows watching a young male approaching. She puckers her lips and imitates the hoot of an owl.

 

‘Sebastian’ was coming up along the path, when suddenly he heard the soft hooting of an owl.

 

He stops and waits.

 

The figure emerges from the shade. It is a slender female his age, dressed in black.

 

She approached the young male.

 

‘Sebastian’ tips his head in her direction.

“I’ve got it, she sang like a canary.”

 

She looks at him quizzically…

“All of it? Address, layout, time schedules?”

 

Sebastian nods:

“The family you pointed out will be at their hotel suite tonight, back at their mansion tomorrow late afternoon. The banks will be closed so the three ladies of the house will still have the jewels they were wearing with them. I have their address, train schedules, the works.”

 

With excitement, the lady goes up to Sebastian and they hug and kiss. Then she breaks happily away…

“And I’m sure they have more in their Jewelry cases. Tomorrow night it is then. Perfect, we should be going now, we have what we came for.”

 

Sebastian clears his throat.

“Luv, There is another.”

 

The lady looks at him thoughtfully...

 

“Another my dear?”

 

“I met a young girl, Cadie, she is 16. I know, young, but I checked her out. She is wearing real diamonds, positively dripping with them.”

 

Sebastian purses. looking around, lowering his voice.

“I was scoping them out as we danced. The silly twit has no clue to be wary of strangers taking an interest in her.

She Lives nearby. Here with a friend. Will be dropped off at her manor house tonight. Parents are gone for the weekend. Just her twin brother and her there tonight.”

 

The lady in black grins…

“Sounds delicious. Describe her jewelry luv.”

 

As they are speaking, off in the distance a door slams. Girlish giggling is heard close by, but not enough to warrant any worries.

 

Sebastian eagerly tells his partner Emylee about the easily deceiving young lady…

“She is wearing an expensively fitted lavender silk gown. Her jewellery is all diamonds, nothing paste.

Long wide earrings(£5,000) matching wide ‘Y’ shaped necklace (£10,000)

a 7-strand diamond bracelet(£6,000) and 4 diamond rings(£20,000) the lot)Her long hair is held back by a pair of diamond clips(£3,000 both).

She willingly gave me the address. I think she is hoping I’ll drop in on her tomorrow. These rich young ones are way too gullible.”

 

The lady thief was busy calculating the value of the jewellery young Cadie was wearing.

“£44,000 hmm. She is a little bit loaded down with the ice. It’s real you say, lad, why would they let a young one out wearing all that?”

 

“Sebastian “ nodded.

“Just there for the taking luv. I’m sure it’s not a trap. Almost too easy to pass up, don’t you agree?”

 

Emylee looked at him with apprehension.

“Sweet 16. I don’t know really, about mugging a child Sebastian.”

 

Sebastian laid a hand on her arm

“No luv. We don’t do her over like that lass In Soho. { a brunette wearing a red satin dress and some lovely emeralds lured outside to a dark alley sprang to mind). Not talking about luring her here to the gardens and you robbing her. I thought about that, but, Look now luv, I’ve been practicing haven’t I? I’m ready to do a house job on my own.”

 

Emylee nods her head yes.

“Well, you’ve wanted to try a burgle on your own. Switching roles, me being the outside with you on the inside? I’d say this is your chance. So you’ll be keeping your promise, just early morning instead of later. tomorrow. “

 

“Tie them up, Do the whole house?”

 

Emylee shakes her head no…

“Baby steps lad. In and out quickly. Just burgle the chick’s room. Wait till they sleep. Grab the goods stuff first. But also make it thorough. check under her pillow, lingerie drawer, that type of thing. Something tells me that her room will be a gold mine to rob. We can keep the place on our radar, perhaps do a proper job next year on the whole house.”

 

“Sebastian” nods, and arm in arm the pair begin to walk off deep in conversation.

 

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They had driven for nearly an hour when Emylee pulled the car over by an old church cemetery, keeping the engine running.

 

“Okay, Sebastian. We’ve scoped the house and area. Cut straight through the cemetery, The house is just on the other side of those woods. It’s midnight, I’ll be back in 4 hours to pick you up. If you’re not there, well it will be a long walk home won’t it, lad?”

 

Sebastian nodded and got out of the car. He watched as Emylee pulled away

 

Keeping as much to the shadows as possible Sebastian quickly navigated the woods and located the house. Circling he verified he had the right one.

 

It was a large three-story stone house, 15 rooms by his estimation, reflecting the impressive wealth of the family living within its walls.

 

There was only one light on in a lower room. He snuck up, and from a hiding spot conveniently offed by a tall hedge, Saw a young male watching the Telly.

 

He sighed. Waiting.

 

Which was a good thing, for less than a half-hour into it a chauffeur-driven limo pulled in. He watched as the young girl whose diamonds were his target was let off.

 

Waving the limousine off, she turned and happily walked to the door, her lovely gown shimmering, its beauty only outdone by her glittering diamonds.

 

Going back to the window he watched as she came into the room. Greeted by her brother they made conversation for a few minutes before she turned and went upstairs.

 

He saw a light go on, revealing which room was hers, where the good stuff would be kept.

 

It was 12:30 when she came back down she had taken off the sensuous gown and put on a pair of long-sleeved deep brown shiny satin pajamas over her petite figure.

 

Cadie surprisingly was still wearing the diamond necklace, but had removed all her other diamonds.

 

She sat down and cuddled into her brother as they both talked while watching a movie. Her necklace sparkled provocatively.

 

If the girl hadn’t still been wearing it, Sebastian may have broken into her too and burgled it while they were both downstairs.

 

It was now 1:30 am

 

Precious time ticked on as Sebastian swigged, watching. The pair started to doze off.

 

Then Thsnkfilly the movie ended, waking them.

 

He saw the sister rise and ask her twin brother to help undo her necklace. Apparently, it had a tight clasp.

 

The bother did so. Cadie held the necklace dangling from her hand as she turned and went upstairs.

 

The brother watched her and then settled in to watch the movie.

 

“Damn!” Thought Sebastian looking at his watch.

 

It was now 2:00.sm

 

Sebastian’s fingers tinkled, it was a waiting game anyway. 2;30 should be about enough time for her to be fast asleep.

 

He waited, and the brother finally fell asleep on the couch.

 

Now or never.

At 2:45 Sebastian slipped out of the shadows to the rear patio that led to a sunroom. There he found a glass door and using a circle glass cutting tool easily removed a round section of glass and let himself in.

 

The thick pads of his shoes muffled his steps as he stole his way through the house to the bottom step of the stairwell leading upstairs.

 

The whole place is oozed by wealth.

 

He peered into the room where the movie was playing. He saw the brother was still not moving.

 

At the bottom, he listened. All was quiet upstairs. Sneaking up the stairs he made the landing. The girl Cadie’s room was on the right. Her door was conveniently open.

 

He tiptoed over to it. A large window off to the side was letting in enough light that he didn’t need his torch.

 

In the moonlight streaming through that window, he could see her lying curled upon on the bed, black satin sheets were pulled up to the waist of Cadie’s richly chocolate satin-clad figure.

 

She was fast asleep, facing away from her bedside vanity, out upon which an oak jewel case sat to one side, its 3 drawers facing her.

 

He crept into her room. Looking around., all her room’s pricey decorations, starkly indicated that this was indeed a rich girl's lair.

 

A warm tingling rush of adrenaline swept over Sebastian, this was what it was all about for him. The overwhelming allure to break in and steal jewels without being caught out. So much more enticing when the victim who had worn them was there also

 

He had practiced this using Emylee as the sleeping victim, but that was no substitute for the real thing.

 

He could see that now, as the arousing feeling that any cat burglar worth his salt had when seeing a sleeping lady’s diamonds, invitingly laid out in the open was intensified tenfold.

 

Cadie looked vulnerable, fast asleep, wearing her shiny satin pjs. Sebastian saw her equally shiny gown reflected in her vanity mirror as it hung from the back of her bedroom door.

 

Sebastian went directly to her vanity, one eye on her, the. other on her jewelry case, heart thumping with increasing force as he got closer, undetected by the sleeping girl

Whose shiny back was facing him.

 

He lifted her satin clutch purse from the side table and opened it, daringly laying it on the satin sheets of her bed, centimeters away from her sleek back.

 

Then turned his undivided attention to the area where the case containing the sleeping girl's jewels sat

 

Next to the jewel case lay a thin leather box. Upon it, carefully laid out, were, the earrings necklace, and bracelet she had worn blazed up into a stormy fire.

 

Sebastian carefully lifted the gorgeous diamond necklace she had been wearing watching it glittering itself up a storm.

 

He carefully slipped it inside her purse.

 

Sebastian quickly scooped the remaining pieces, taking a precious few seconds to dangle them in front of his eyes, with the sleeping Cadie in the background, before slipping them into the purse on the bed

 

He then turned to the jewel case, but stopped, on a whim he picked up the thin leather box and opened it. His eyes were greeted by the shimmering sight of a magnificent diamond broach(£10,000) that she had not been wearing on her gown.

 

Rookie error, almost an expensive one, forgetting to check inside of a jewel case he had thought was empty.

 

He then slowly opened the wooden top lid of the 3 drawer case. Her now fully exposed jewels glittered. Emeralds, rubies, and sapphires glittering inside, all dinner-out jewellery, none of it as expensive as her formal evening-out diamonds.

 

Slowly, carefully Sebastian extracted each glimmering piece. Taking everything, even those set with rhinestones. (£23,000)

 

What proper thief wouldn’t?

 

He then slowly opened the three drawers and removed the glittering trinkets they contained. Gold and silver in the top two,(£8,000) the bottom one containing a nice collection of rings(£23,000)

 

But no pearls. Rich girls always had pearls. Especially debutantes like the sleeping Cadie, whose white A-line satin gown with rhinestone trimmings he had seen hanging from a hook in a corner of her room.

 

So the hunt was on

 

Pillows checked underneath, fingers edged around the mattress, then ruffled through her dresser drawers. Then on a whim, he checked the oak wardrobe and bingo, found a wide thin hinged velvet-covered case hidden in a drawer underneath a rack of coats, a fur, a black leather jacket, and a satin cape.

 

He opened it and found a nice collection of gleaming pearls, necklaces, earrings, and bracelets(19,500).

 

At that moment he heard noisier on the stairs. Holding the case. Sebastian moved back between the wardrobe and an open corner.

 

He saw a shadow on the sister's wall by the door. Her brother then popped his head in, watching his sleeping sister.

 

Thankfully the small black clutch purse blended in the black satin sheets, the brother never noticed.

 

Seeing her gown on the backside of the door the brother fingered it.

 

“Don’t blame you, lad.” Sebastian thought.

 

The brother then left and Sebastian heard his bedroom door open and close.

 

As it did, the girl turned over in bed. He held his breath. She did not wake, but her nose was almost touching her satin purse, filled with the jewels he was stealing.

 

He waited for ten long minutes, listening, hearing nothing more than the sleeping girl's breathing.

 

Finally, he crept from the corner, taking the case over to the vanity. Gently lifting the purse from the bed, he scooped the Pearls out sad dropped them on the pile inside Cadie’s small satin purse.

 

Stealing looks at the bedroom door, as well as Cadie’s sleeping form, Sebastian then went to the sleeping girls' closet and ruffled through the expensive clothes hanging there. On a satiny party dress he found a rhinestone clip, and on principles removed it.

 

It then occurred to Sebastian that he had not found the twin diamond hairclips Cadie had been wearing holding up her silky hair.

 

He went back over to the bed.

 

Kneeling her went in for a closer examination of Cadie, confirming they were not in her hair. He looked over her fingers for any rings she may have still been wearing. But they were all bare

 

However, as Sebastian examined her, he saw a hint of gold. She was wearing a thin chain around her neck. The end is hidden inside her chocolate satin pj top.

 

She must have been wearing it underneath her gown this evening. Whatever was at its end may not be worth the risk of being caught in the acte of robbing her, but taking risks was all this was about.

 

He took off his gloves, and reached in, lifting the gold chain from her neck. He then began pulling it up.

 

She must have felt something, for Suddenly Cadie stirred, and he froze.

She rubbed her nose with a satin sleeve, But her eyes did not open.

 

When she settled back down(and Sebastian’s heart came back down from up his throat) he looked the situation over

 

The chain had fallen out, and against her satin-clad breasts was a diamond chip-embedded gold cross (£2,500) that had been at the chain end

 

Sebastian reached in and delicately pulled the chain until the clasp came into view.

 

Holding his breath he held the jewelled cross in one hand, while he undid the clasp with the other. Then with the delicate touch of a surgeon, pulled the chain off from around Cadie’s neck.

 

He exhaled while plopping the stolen jewel on top of the sparkling stash already inside the purse.

 

Sebastian looked around. There was a door at the end of the room he had not opened yet

 

He went over and discovered it led to a shared bathroom. And there on the sink, lay the pair of missing diamond clips. He went over and lifted them both from the sink.

 

Sebastian went back to the bed and added the glimmering clips to the stash inside the purse.

 

He then picked up the now much heavier purse and backed out of his victim's room, along with her purse full of jewels.

 

He stopped at her door, watching Cadie sleep while fingering the far too-soft gown hanging there. He pictured how pretty Cadie had been that evening, dressed expensively up in silk, how deliciously exquisite she had felt in his arms.

 

He remembered the exhilaration when he confirmed that she was actually wearing real diamonds.

 

He would have loved to be there when she woke and see her reaction upon finding she had been robbed of those diamonds while asleep.

 

With. With a deep sigh, he turned and made his way out of the house, retracing his steps to meet up with Emylee at their rendezvous point.

 

He stopped at the edge of the woods leading back towards the cemetery. Looking back at the large manor house with satisfaction at how he had handled tonight’s burglary.

 

He saw that the light was on in Cadie’s room. Then suddenly the light flickered on in her twin brothers.

 

He smiled wickedly to himself, figuring that young satin-clad Cadie had just now discovered that while she slept, her jewel case had been cleaned out.

 

He turned and disappeared into the woods. Rehashing how he had lured the devastatingly gorgeous young Cadie into his confidence, the success of which was richly encouraging him to look forward to the next job.

 

And perhaps down the road meet up with Cadie again. And then revisit her home to do a full and proper Job of it.

 

Done