Chapter3
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Elizabeth's Pov
When I got to the office the next day,
everywhere was still tensed, the security
guard has increased and everyone looked
more careful.
" Elizabeth! You look sad, what's wrong?"
Annabel, the receptionist, asked me.
"Yes, I'm just bothered about the robbery
of yesterday, I can't figure out why they
came and who they came for exactly." I
replied Annabel.
"Thinking cannot solve the issues, let's be
grateful that no one was killed." She said. "Oh! That's true."
I went to my office and rearranged
everywhere, I was thinking about the
event that happened yesterday and how
my boss, almost got killed for trying to
rescue us from danger. I was surprised at
his bravery and boldness.
"Good morning everyone!" My boss, Mr.
James Roland said with a loud voice
"Good morning Sir." I responded
"Elizabeth, call everyone to the reception
area now." Mr. James said, as I gathered
everyone at the reception. There was a
man beside my boss, I couldn't ask who he was, I just kept thinking and staring at
the person.
"I'm sorry about what happened
yesterday, I apologize for putting your
lives at risk, as we all can see the security
is tightened and I apologize for the stolen
properties and funds. I assure you that
the company will refund everything you
might have lost." Mr. James said, looking
at the staff members.
"Yes sir, thank you for your selfless act sir,
we appreciate you sir." Olivia responded.
"Thank you Olivia. As we can see, we
have a visitor here among us, his name
his Detective Richard. He will doing
investigations about the robbery that happened in our office yesterday, you all
should cooperate with him by giving
necessary information that can help crack
this case." Mr. James said.
"Good morning everyone, my name is
Detective Richard from the FBI." He
showed his Identity card while doing the
Introduction.
"Welcome sir." I responded.
"Thank you ma'am. There was an armed
robbery here yesterday, and when Mr.
James got home he got a letter saying
"Expect the unexpected, watch your back
James." So definitely someone is
orchestrating this robbery and would still
want to make another move, and we have to stop the person by getting necessary
information and clues that can link us to
the evil doer." Detective Richard said,
looking at the faces of everyone.
The issue was getting serious, I was
happy that there would be a solution and
our safety would be guaranteed.
"The first step for me is to check the
surveillance camera footage of the office
for that very day, how do I get that?"
Detective Richard asked Mr. James.
"We will have to go to the control room in
the basement." Mr. James said.
"Should we go together or others should
follow sir?" Detective Richard asked. "Let everyone go, anyone might have an
idea that can lead us to the truth." Mr.
James replied.
As we walked towards the basement, all
the staff members were silent with an
hightened suspense till we finally got to
the control room, detective Richard
checked everything and searched for the
footage of that particular day when the
robbery took place.
"Sir, the footage for that day is missing!"
Detective Richard said, with a tone of
worry in his voice.
"Deleted? How possible is that?" Mr.
James asked. "It's very possible, either manually or
automatically by someone who has
access to the CCTV control room, it
means that somebody in this office did
this." Detective Richard said
"How do we know that sir? So what do we
do?" I asked.
"I need to recover the deleted file,
because there is something important in
that footage for that person to delete it."
Detective Richard said, looking at the
screen of the CCTV.
"But in most cases, when a footage is
deleted, it's always difficult to restore." Mr
James said. "Well, You can get deleted CCTV footage
by some ways and one of the ways is by
using data recovery software, which can
scan the storage device for deleted files
and attempt to recover them. Another way
is by using a professional data recovery
service, which can use specialized
equipment and techniques to recover
deleted files." Detective Richard said,
rearranging the settings of the CCTV
There was suspense everywhere, we all
wanted to know who the culprit was, Mr.
James Roland was more anxious than
others, as he wanted to know who
orchestrated the robbery. That means the
person would be connected to the letter
that was dropped in front of his house.After waiting for a long time in the CCTV
control room, detective Richard finally
broke the silence. "Here it is! I finally the
deleted footage of that particular day."
The tension increased, as everyone fixed
their gaze on the monitoring screen,
expecting to see the culprit. As we
watched the footage, we saw when My
boss and I entered the office. After a while
we saw when the armed robbers were
entering the office, how they stole things
and came to meet us in the secret room.
Suddenly we saw something that was
shocking— we saw our receptionist,
Annabel, discussing with the masked
armed robbers and giving them directions
about the office. I remembered that she was not with us in
the secret room, I thought she was hiding
somewhere else, unknowingly she was
giving the robbers directions. Annabel
was my close friend and partner, I never
knew her to be like that.
"Annabel, what's the meaning of this?" Mr.
James asked with a tone of worry and his
voice filled with anger.
"Sir…it's…. I…. I..can explain…" Annabel
stammered, as I cut in sharply.
"Explain? What have we done that made
you put our lives in danger? Are you so
heartless?" I said. "This is uncalled for, you should be
arrested." Olivia said, looking at her.
As we were busy insulting Annabel, my
boss, Mr. James, received a message on
his phone and he read the contents.
"This is just the beginning, James."
- Writer
