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Verruckt followed her gaze to her clothes, which indeed bore the marks of dark coffee stains.
Jareth let out a sigh of relief, his tension ebbing as he asked, “You said you broke the microwave?”
“Yes,” Allison replied, biting her lip. She pointed to the coffee machine, her face flushing with embarrassment. “I
didn’t know how to use it, but | wanted hot coffee. So | put the can in the microwave, and then... it exploded.”
Jareth rubbed his temples, frustration evident in his voice. “Shouldn't you have been at your workstation on the
second basement level? Why were you in the break room on the first basement level?”
Allison looked at him, her eyes wide and pleading. “Mr. Williamson, you said there were creepy lab specimens on
the second basement level. You told| could stay on the first level when Mr. Shaw wasn’t around.”
Jareth froze, his mind flashing back to earlier that day. In the chaos of everything that had happened, he had
forgotten about that particular detail.
Seeing his stunned silence, Allison explained with a touch of hurt in her tone, “And isn’t there surveillance? You
can check the footage. You toldthis morning, right in front of the elevator. I'm really not lying.”
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As the security personnel began to move out, Jareth called them to halt. “Wait.”
His gaze flicked nervously to Verruckt, his voice dropping to a whisper. “Mr. Shaw, | remember now. That's indeed
what | said. But... that’s because Alice knows about the central control room on the second basement level, and |
was worried—" He was cut off before he could finish.
“Hold on. Have someone check the surveillance footage of the break room during this time.”
“Yes, sir.”
Jareth felt a chill crawl down his spine. The punishment seemed unavoidable now.
Verruckt lowered his gaze again, his eyes narrowing as they lingered on the wound etched across Allison's arm. It
seemed plausible enough — an injury inflicted by the shrapnel of an exploding coffee can.
“So, you're the one who set off that little fireworks show in the break room?” he asked, his voice cutting through
the silence like the blade of a guillotine. His hand shot forward, gripping her chin firmly and tilting her face
upward, dragging her closer into the orbit of his piercing blood-red eyes.
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