The security guard exchanged a quick glance with his colleague, who answered with a mocking smile and a slight tilt of his head, as though he were enjoying the situation.

The atmosphere in the lobby grew heavier by the second, almost suffocating.

“You’d better make this easy on yourself, miss,” the second guard said, stepping forward and invading Isis’s personal space. “There’s no need to make things difficult.”

He spread his hands in a false gesture of conciliation, while his gaze moved over h