Entangled Lies of the Elite

Chapter 5

Chapter 5
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The team of four reached the apartments at around 4pm. They had arranged a meeting with the manager in advance therefore now all they had to do was go through the footages.

Wonder what is this going to leave us with. She thought while they all walked towards the security cabin.

As they stepped in few people from the management greeted them and asked to take seats. She noted how professional they seemed, giving an approving look to the setup she took a seat.

“We want to view the CCTV footage of 7th April’s. Show us the one which has an angle of her apartment’s main door. Oh and please time lapse it for now, we will ask you to stop when needed.” The manager nodded as she spoke.

This is it, this is the time we might get some major clue, Yaa Allah just make this visit successful for us. Help us reveal the truth, only you know what is about to get revealed and what is hidden. She prayed as they started the footage.

The day started from 12am. Nothing was going on, just the neighbors returning back to their place, things were going smoothly as they should. The apartment’s door opened at 8am as Ayra got out with a bag hanging on her shoulder and few files in the other hand. Locking the door she went towards the lift.

“Ayra Ma’am used to go to work at 8am at times.” One of the security guard explained.

Time passed by and there was no activity except few neighbors going in and out of their houses. The building itself had only 3 apartments per floor so it was easier to keep an eye on the footage and every person.

Ayra returned at 7pm and went inside her house. This is where Zeynep asked them to stop.

“Replay the footage of 7:08pm. Keep the speed slow.” She exclaimed as they all got closer to the monitor.

The lift opened and Ayra stepped out walking straight towards her apartment. She fiddled with her keys struggling to open the door. Once she successfully unlocked the door she entered the house and closed it the next second.

Zeynep replayed the footage one more time and noticed the difference was in Ayra’s body language, in the morning when she went to her work she looked so calm like it was her everyday routine which it was and her return was filled with low-key anxiety. Her walking pace was so fast, she was restless and struggling to do minimum easiest task such as unlocking the door. It was as if she was afraid.

Asking for this footage to be sent as an email she asked them to resume it. They kept strict look not missing a minute from that time. The floor was once again calm and empty, not even a single person was seen. Then the time reached 9:54pm and they saw something which they never expected.

"What happened to the footage?" Omer looked shocked trying to figure out why the CCTV stopped all of a sudden.

He looked at the manager with questioning eyes trying to find sense, trying understand the situation.

Everyone looked at one another trying to understand what just happened while the manager tried to play the video over and over again but nothing changed. The footage went blank after it skipped. There were no footages from 9:54pm to 12am which then started another day.