Tom connected the hard drive to his laptop and booted it, as he waited he stood with his hands leaned on the table and looked at Angela who sat in the chair across the table from him.
"So? Mind telling me why you gave people who tried helping you the slip last night?"
She folded her leg elegantly over her knee, Tom noticed she had a set of new jeans to hide the scar.
"I got fed up with the place"
"That so hey?"
"Yes, I packed my stuff and headed home Thomas, why should I waste one of their beds when I'm perfectly okay to leave?"
"Are you? I saw how you occasionally limp, its valiant knowing you're trying to act tough Angela but for Pete's sake be a woman for once in your life"
Her slyness vanished and she looked at him shocked "What do you mean be a woman!? Wasn't I woman enough for you during that kiss!?"
"Sure, yet you forgot your hand was full of blood and smeared a decent line of warpaint on my cheek before the kiss"
She folded her arms "Oh, so I'm a little too tomboy for you hey?"
"Not at all, you remind me a lot about my wife, she was a tough woman, she didn't take crap from people, I guess that's what I came to like about her"
"Well I'm not her, clearly if you say I should be more woman then I'm only half what she was?"
"Fine! Let me rephrase that, be human Angela!"
She blinked "What?"
"There's no need to try and be this unstoppable thing, we all get hurt, just settle and heal"
"I am settled Snyders, now stop patronising me about my wound and check the camera footage!" She almost yelled.
He grunted and logged into his computer, found the hard drive file and opened it, as he scanned she stood up and came in next to him.
"There's a lot of files" She said.
"Yes, but were only looking for footage taken in the last twenty four hours" Tom said and opened the first one.
"This will take a while, want some coffee?" She asked walking to the door.
"Yes please"
As she left he gave her a glance, Angela and Lana was scary alike to him, once she fell from a horse and broke her leg, Lana stood up and brushed off the dust, only when they got home and saw her leg was still blue did she prod it a few times and realise the bone was moving irregularly.
Tom chuckled and forwarded the footage of the main entrance in the house, the men serving Adele was up and down, up and down, then it went quiet during the fast forward and there was a blur from another body.
He stopped and rewinded, then played it normally.
The girl passed the camera only briefly, this was seventeen thirty five, where she came from was now the question, and it seemed she was sneaking.
On this angle Tom could only see her from behind, and the only description was the blonde hair, she went up the staircase to the rooms which made Tom stop the footage and find another camera upstairs and forwarded it to the same time.
Angela entered with the cups and saw his darting eyes at the laptop.
"You find anything?"
"Yeah come see this, there was a girl sneaking around in the house"
She increased her pace and joined him, there they saw her sneaking down the hallway, her back still to the camera, then ducked into a room when a servant passed.
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Red moon notice
Mystery / Thriller"Mia!? Alice!?" He yelled getting up, he didn't even bring a torch, didn't even plan to stay out so late, squinting into the dark the only thing that guided him was another shriek scream which made him run, he has never heard Mia scream that loudly...
