Chapter 65: Loyalties

Hades~

My ears were ringing as I watched the footage. This was probably the fifth time I had replayed it. My security cameras were state of the art—why wouldn't they be? Yet, right in front of me, the videos of Ellen had no audio. None at all.

"What the…" Kael muttered, shock shading his voice. "This doesn't make sense."

Like hell it didn't. She was on the phone, clearly agitated, tears gathering in her eyes, her knuckles white from gripping the phone so hard. She was clearly upset, but I couldn't hear a single thing she was saying. From what little I knew of lip-reading, it looked like she was speaking with her mother.

A flash of hurt crossed her face, like Queen Lyra was saying something very unfriendly. That was all I could deduce as my mind raced through possibilities and probabilities.

"How could the audio be deactivated?" Kael turned a threatening glare on the security officials, who were kneeling on the floor.