“Look, we need to talk about this whole Eloise disappearing act—”
“She’s been going to the private library,” Nicholas interrupts while studying his computer screen.
“What? How does she know about that place?”
“She saw it when I brought her back to her room after getting poisoned.”
“And you’re okay with that?”
“Something happened while we were gone. She felt nervous and went to a place where she felt safe. She only knows the code to her room.” Nicholas leaves out the fact that she knows his too. “She can roam all the hallways in this place but can’t access any room without the codes. You know that.”
“What if she finds the door to the bottom floor?”
Nicholas leans back in his chair. He doesn’t like being questioned so much. “Then she sees a door that looks like every other door in the
