He walked over to her. “Come with me.”
She didn’t ask why, she just followed him to an elevator at the end of the hall, around two corners. “I’ve never used this elevator.” Everyone else was out of earshot. “Where are we going?”
“Downstairs.” He pushed a button, and the elevator doors opened.
Ambiguous. There was a whole lot of “downstairs” below the ground floor of this building. “Are you going to tell me why?” She followed him inside.
The doors closed.
Tony eyed her. “You’re going to think about what happened every time you get in an elevator with me, aren’t you?”
“I’m assuming that I won’t eventually.” At least, she hoped that would be the case. “Just tell me what we’re doing.”
“I’ll let Sylvia do that.”
When the doors opened, the director was waiting for them. A long hall stretched behind her, a security guard at a small desk to one side. A guy she’d never met.
“Eliana, how are you?” Sylvia looked like she wanted to give her a hug.
“I’m feeling a lot better. Just worried about Carolena.”
Sylvia nodded. “That’s understandable. I’m hoping some of our guestsdown here will be able to tell us where to find her.”
“What guests?” Eliana shook her head. “Isn’t she somewhere in the building?”
Tony didn’t move. He spoke carefully. “We already searched for her. She isn’t at the Shrine.”
“What—”
Sylvia motioned for them to walk with her. “We also know that the other day, someone ordered that group to infiltrate the vault. I’d like you to see if you can find out who.”
“What are you talking about?” Eliana followed Sylvia into a room with a window on one side. Through the window was another small room with a table and two chairs. A young woman paced behind the table.
“She doesn’t know you can see her.” Sylvia turned to Eliana. “Her name is Keri Herbohn.”
Tony crowded into the room behind her.
Eliana’s thoughts stuttered before catching up. Theirguests.“You’re keeping them here?”
“It isn’t as if we’re going to turn them over to the police.” Sylvia shook her head as if the idea was silly. “This is Shrine business, and it concerns you.”
“You want me to find out who hired them, or ordered them to come here?” Eliana paced to the window and back. “I don’t interrogate people.”
Tony said, “I’ll go in there with you.”
“No, you won’t,” Sylvia said. “Eliana has to do this alone or that woman will never talk.”
Eliana shook her head. “This is insane. I’m not a cop, and I’ve never interrogated someone in my life. How am I supposed to get her to talk?” She pointed a finger at her boss’s boss. “And don’t say torture.”
Tony shrugged. “We could rustle up some truth serum. I betDominatushas something that would work. Maybe something in the vault.”
Sylvia shot him a look. “It would still take Eliana to ask the questions. And it’s because you aren’t a professional at this that I think you might have the best shot at it.”
On the other side of the one-way mirror, Keri Herbohn walked back and forth, still wearing the clothes she’d had on when her team had tried to break into the vault. The woman looked exhausted.
“They’re all here?” Eliana said
“Yes,” Sylvia said. “And only they can tell us who hired them. We’ve been through their lives, all their electronic activity. Everything. There’s no indication of who hired them or how.”
