"We're calling the party off"

"What am I supposed to do? He is nowhere to be found. I have been trying to put a call through but the call has been falling through, declining even before it could beep."

Mathew couldn't take his eyes off the face of Elisa. It was so obvious that she was frustrated as well as concerned.

There was a great deal of fear in her eyes, and she wasn't trying to hide it anymore. It was as though her life was on the line. Mathew sighed. Himself was clueless, he had no idea what to do.

He had been trying to reach out to Damien but the call wasn't going through either.

"I can't call off the party. If it was yesterday's night, it would have been easy. But it's the D-day. The girls are waiting, the board members are converging too. It is a matter of time before the invited guests get here. I'm so scared for my life."

Mathew's eyes widened at that. He wanted to get up and walk to her, to comfort and assure her. But then he realised that they didn't have such relationship. For the fact, they were m