19 She is a she, he is a he (1/2)

20 minutes had passed since Seraphina entered the ladies restroom. Ladies come and go but Seraphina's hadn't showed up. After a few more minutes, another batch of ladies exited the restroom. Ace decided to go inside while Riggs blocked the way to the restroom. To Ace surprised, Seraphina wasn't inside. He checked every cubicle but no one is there. He looked at the ceiling but nothing seemed wrong.

He hurriedly got out of the restroom. Riggs looked for her around the mall but to no avail, he hadn't found her. Ace on the other hand went straight to the monitor room to review the cctv footage. After he got permitted to review the cctv's, he directly went to check the cameras near the restroom.

As expected, there wasn't any cctv cameras inside the restroom, thus the angle was at the entrance of the restroom. They immediately started it the moment Seraphina entered the restroom but to their surprised, she didn't exited.

Their suspicion that she probably blended with the other ladies exiting the area vanished.

In the footage, Ace entered the restroom and anxiously exited. What happened next made Ace petrified. Riggs just arrived at the monitor room and witnessed what happened in the cctv. Their jaw almost dropped to the ground as they saw what happened in the footage.

Just a few minutes after Ace went in and out, Seraphina exited the restroom with a large smug grin on her face. She stopped then turned her gaze to the cctv's direction. She mouthed something as she winked at it before leisurely hopped out.

Ace rewind the footage a few times in a slower paced before he understood what she was saying.

'Home. 7pm.' She mouthed.

'F*ck!!!' Ace cursed. He hurriedly check where she went, but as if she knew each cctv's position, she went to all its blindspots and just like that, she disappeared.

Frustrated. Both men exited the monitor room and made their way to the lift going down straight to the designated parking lot.

Ace pulled his phone from inside his suit and dialed someone. Seeing the caller ID, Riggs brows knitted.

”Hey why are you calling X?”

”I'll find her.”

”What?! Why'd you do that? Didn't she said we'll wait for her?”

”Don't you find her suspicious?”

”Why'd you say that? She's just like that. you know.. typical, rebellious, spoiled young miss trying to make all things troublesome for us. Lets just meet her at 7pm man. Why get X involved?” Riggs said in a matter-of-factly tone.

Ace side glances at Riggs. His expression was stern as he spoke.

”That's what a typical teenager would do but she's in her mid 20's, Riggs. She isn't rebellious —she lost her memories for f*ck sake and that's what makes her suspicious. How did she managed to evade us? Even if we say we'd been inactive for quite some time now, I don't think she could leave the premises just like that.”