The Educator novel Chapter 27

We were forced to go back to our hotel because the management called the captain to inform us about some situation. The captain could only tell us that there was an emergency. Elliot and I walk quickly to the front desk.

“Hi! I’m Elliot Smith and I was called by management because of an emergency” Elliot says without breathing.

“Yes, sir, uhm we have two situations at hand. One, there was an unsuccessful robbery at your villa.”

My and Elliot’s eyes widened, “What do you mean? An Unsuccessful robbery?” I asked the manager.

The manager sighs and looks at his colleagues for a moment before giving us an answer, “Well, the management believes that this incident is a first. Someone dressed as one of our staff came by your villa at around nine o’clock, a couple of minutes after you and your wife left for the yacht trip.” The manger says to start, “He used tools to get in and was able to roam around the villa for a solid ten minutes before watch dogs passed by and alerted their respective officers. The robber was able to get away and for some reason, we were unable to get other angles from the cameras. But we’re working on it.”

Elliot and I were silent for a moment. It’s great that he got nothing but that’s another thing that scared us more is the fact that he roamed around the room. Which means he isn’t there to steal or not to steal yet.

“There’s something wrong” Elliot says, “he didn’t use the ten minutes to rob us. He used the ten minutes to get to know us, the patterns, the habits, where our things are. Maybe he even bugged the villa to begin with” Elliot says.