Alex's eyes widened as the video began.
It showed the inside of her room, captured by one of the small security cameras near the entrance. Eliott walked in first, dressed in the white shirt and black trousers he'd worn that morning. He looked around for a few seconds before moving toward the bedroom.
The wardrobe door opened behind him.
A man rushed out — a knife in one hand, a small canister in the other. He had clearly expected Alex to be the one walking through that door, because he froze the instant Eliott turned and looked directly at him.
Eliott didn't give him time to recover. The knife was on the floor in a second. Then the man was on the floor beside it. The struggle barely qualified as one. Security arrived almost immediately and took him out.
Alex stared at the frozen image after the clip ended.
"What was he going to do to me?" The question wasn't really for Eliott. It came out of her like a reflex.
