Chapter 29 The One Who Vanished

• Aleksander immediately ordered the entire staff to sweep the house, but the search was futile—Gerald had vanished without a trace, as though he'd simply evaporated from within a house guarded so tightly. Every corner was checked, every camera rewound, but the footage itself showed something more disturbing—for roughly three minutes, right after Gerald left the dining table, the camera in the corridor leading to the bathroom showed a blurred image, as though deliberately disrupted by an undetectable signal.
• "How could he get out undetected?" Rania asked, her voice full of a panic she could no longer hide.
• "He must have studied this house for a long time," Aleksander answered, his jaw tightening with anger at himself for that oversight. "Probably from all his visits over the years, he memorized every security gap that exists."