Chapter 62
Dermos’s POV
Carlos didn’t answer immediately.
That alone got me angry again. “Who?” I repeated in a higher pitch.
He swallowed once before speaking. “It’s registered to Elena,” he said softly.
The name rang through the air. Elena, Ariella’s head housekeeper.
The one assigned to her wing. The one who had worked in this house for six years. The one Ariella trusted.
I didn’t show my reaction on my face, but inside? Everything shifted.
“Elena doesn’t even know how to operate half the systems in this place,” I said calmly.
Carlos nodded. “Which is exactly why this doesn’t make sense,” he agreed.
Mateo stepped closer. “The code was used from inside the security panel near the east corridor. That's a manual entry, not remote,” he explained.
Manual. That meant hands on the k
