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I pulled open the door to my office and hurried in. Surprisingly, I found my room to be in perfect condition, fully expecting it to have been ransacked. It didn’t serve as a comfort, though, for it only meant that Jocelyn wanted this to be a grab-and-go operation.
For all I knew, she already sped away with Elara. There was no time to lose. I hurried to the round table, typing in my password. I pulled up the security footage, flicking to the camera overlooking where I was standing with Elara before she was snatched.
There’s got to be something here.
“You’ve got to be kidding me…” I muttered, met with a message that told me the respective camera was out of service. I pulled up the cameras near Elara’s shop.
Everything there looked perfectly normal. No sign of Elara or Jocelyn.
“Fuck!”
I slammed a fist into the table, causing the holographic display to flutter. Pinching my nose, I felt the dread catching up on me.
“How could this have happened right underneath my nose?”
Just then, Sakkar appeared around the corner with a plasma pistol drawn. He lowered it at the sight of me.
“I thought someone broke in here,” he said, holstering his weapon.
“You’re not far off,” I replied. “Elara was taken by Jocelyn, and she hacked my security system.”
“What? Shit… That would explain the smoking scanner outside the door.”
“What’s the status out there?”
“There’s been nothing as of yet, but we haven’t checked in with the bouncers at the front entrance. I’ll call them in. Maybe they saw something.”
As Sakkar did so, I felt as though I was entombed by four walls in my mind. I knew each minute lost meant Elara was closer to doom, but I couldn’t give up hope, not now when she needed me the most.
I tried desperately to think of my next move. So much for a seamless, successful gala event.
“What’s the word?” I asked.
“No one has seen anything,” replied Sakkar.
“Damn it… I just know Jocelyn is behind all of this. How the hell did she get in?”
“I don’t know. Maybe a side door or something.”
“Where are the guards?” I yelled.
“Sorry, boss. We found them stunned.”
“No use mumbling about it,” I muttered.
“Boss, I think I know where she may have been taken!”
My eyes lit up.
“Tell me!” I snapped.
“You were dancing in the ballroom, right? There’s a door to a side alley there. I know for a fact we don’t have guards there. It was cordoned off from the public, but Jocelyn easily could have slipped in through there.”
At that moment, I recalled the drawn curtains hiding that door normally used for deliveries or trash disposal when I stepped away with Elara. It became clear to me then what my next move would be.
“Sakkar, radio everyone to come in here.”
“Yes, sir.”
