First message
He was running down the hallway on the seventeenth floor.
“Hold the elevator! I’m in a hurry.”
She had absolutely no intention of doing that. Especially after hearing his voice.
His hand slipped between the closing doors, forcing them open.
Of course. Alexis. It couldn’t have been anyone else.
They stood silently at opposite ends of the elevator as it started moving down.
The lights went out. Silence.
Alexis immediately turned on her phone flashlight.
“Is this some kind of joke? I’m in a hurry. Where the hell is the signal?”
He chuckled.
“Did I say something funny?” she snapped.
“No. I just heard someone downstairs yesterday saying the backup generators were taken away for repairs. Ironic…”
“Ironic? Of all the people in the world…”
He laughed even harder at her outburst.
Of all the people in the world.
Life had an interesting sense of humor.