Their faces were so close that their breaths nearly mingled, forcing Eli to lean back as far as he could.
His entire body stiffened. Should he answer Adrian or keep his mouth shut? The problem was that his explanation was full of holes. If something had genuinely gone missing, why did he want the surveillance footage from outside the room rather than the footage inside it? And what important possession could he possibly have lost? His belongings consisted almost entirely of supplies issued by the military academy, which, while valuable to him, hardly justified this much fuss.
However, if the footage revealed the sinner's mark on the back of his neck, he would be finished.
Eli's heart beat faster and faster, but there was nothing he could do except take the risk and hope the surveillance footage showed only the person responsible for what had happened to him.
