Billionaire Alpha's 99 Deadly Games novel Chapter 153

Chapter 153

“Did you see Ms. Elise Westin this morning?”

Ay The

“How should I know?” she said again, before adding, “I see hundreds of people a day, think I can really tell one from the other?”

She was lying again, only this time I wasn’t the only one who knew it with certainty.

The big guy had seemingly been typing away at a laptop, ignoring the situation, and truthfully, pissing me off, but he swung the laptop around toward us and pointed to a slender, dark–haired beauty I’d recognize anywhere. Elise.

“Is this your lady friend?” the man asked me, and I nodded in confirmation, unable to speak as I watched the lady convince Elise to follow her, then lead her down the hall I knew would lead to the room we found her stuff in. The lady returned on the screen a few minutes later. Two men appeared, their backs to the camera, but we could tell she was talking to them, then she ushered them off into the same direction she had taken Elise. The desk sat empty for what felt like an eternity on the screen before I appeared, banging on the bell in frustration. I knew the exact moment, and knowing now that Elise had been just down the hall made me feel lower than I could ever have imagined. My mate had been in trouble just a few yards away, and I hadn’t been able to stop it.

“I want a lawyer!” the lady cried, interrupting my self–deprecation.

“This isn’t a jail, Viv, and we aren’t real cops, but if you don’t cooperate with us, we’ll be forced to call

them in.”

She took a deep breath and let out a long sigh. Tears sprang from her eyes and her nose instantly turned an ugly shade of red.

“Those two men,” she began as the story spilled from her, “they contacted me about an hour after

she checked in. I told them the boyfriend was there, but they didn’t seem to care. Should she find

herself alone, I was to assist and keep her isolated in a safe place, and call them. They weren’t

staying here, but they couldn’t have been too far away, because they got here within about twenty

minutes from when I called.”

“How much?” I asked, sounding deathly calm.

She shivered and refused to make eye contact with me, but she answered. “Five thousand dollars. Look, I have student loans and money’s tight. I needed that money and they promised no one would

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get hurt and there would be no way to trace it back to me.”

“And you believed them?” I spat out, disgusted by her.

“Tell us everything you can about the men. Did they take her off–site? What did they look like? Any distinguishing features?

“They both had heavy foreign accents. It was hard to even understand them sometimes,” she confessed. “They were going to take her out the back door, you know, the employee entrance, but when I unlocked the room you found her luggage in, there was no sign of her at all. They were really angry, but I had to leave because you were banging on the bell and causing a scene. By the time I’d gotten rid of you, there was no sign of any of them. I swear, that’s all I know.”

“Check the emergency exit footage. We had an alarm go off there this morning, could be around the same the time. I’d been on a smoke break at the time and came back in to the noise, glanced at the monitors, but didn’t see anything suspicious, but maybe I missed something.”

Desperation clawed at me from within.