Chapter 97

*CADEN* Still feeling so panicked, I got out of the shower, got dressed and headed downstairs. I couldn’t find the bottle that I had been drinking last night, but I found Esme. “Did you take the bottle on the table?” I asked. She nodded. “There was almost nothing left of it so I disposed it while cleaning this morning.” So I had really drank a lot last night? That was a big bottle of wine. I initially had no intention of finishing it. “Are you okay, sir?” Esme asked, concerned. I stared at her, guiltily, knowing that there was a probability that I had taken advantage of her daughter. “I’m…I’m fine.” But I still wanted something, anything to prove to me that nothing happened between me and Ellie last night. I headed off to the control room. When I got there, I discovered that all the CCTV were turned off. No! I quickly turned them back on. I realized that the last footage of it was two days ago. That means the surveillance of the house had been off for two days. How could the staff not