5 Chapter 5

And then I received the shock of my life when I found the hallway behind me completely deserted. 2

I blinked once. Twice. Then my eyelids fluttered.

“What the—? Huh? I mean—holy fuck!”

I babbled gibberish for several seconds before racing to the alcove where the stranger had originally stood in the shadows. Nothing there now but cobwebs. Yet I had not heard the man creep away behind me, and the elevator at the end of the hallway remained empty and lifeless, so he hadto be in this hallway. Somewhere!

But where?