At the end of my job Interview, the director said, “You’re hired, but may I hold your hand?” When I refused, he locked the
door from the inside… 😱💔
After being unemployed for three months, that interview wasn’t simply a job opportunity for me. It was my last hope.
The company was one of the most prestigious organizations in the city. The salary was almost twice what I had earned at my
previous job, and the employee benefits sounded unbelievably generous.
Only one thing bothered me. I couldn’t remember ever applying for the position. Two days earlier, a woman had called and
introduced herself as the director’s secretary.
“Mr. Bennett has seen your résumé and would like to meet you personally,” she had said.
“Where did he find it?”
The woman remained silent for several seconds.
“Probably on one of the job-search websites.”
Her answer wasn’t convincing, but I decided to go anyway.
On the day of the interview, I arrived at the building at six in the evening. The reception area was almost completely empty.
A woman around fifty named Margaret sat behind the desk. She stared at my face for an unusually long time before slowly
smiling.
“So, you’re Emily Carter.”
“Yes.”
Her eyes immediately dropped to my wrist.
“Did you come alone?”
The question sounded strange.
“Yes. Why?”
“I was just curious.”
Margaret asked me to turn off my phone, explaining that there were confidential documents in the director’s office. Then
she took a glass from her desk drawer and filled it with water.
“Have some. You must be nervous.”
I thanked her but didn’t touch the glass.
A few minutes later, she led me down a long corridor. The building was so quiet that I could hear our footsteps echoing.
At the end of the hallway, Margaret opened the door to a large office.
“Mr. Bennett will be with you shortly.”
She placed the glass of water on the desk and left.
One of the office walls was covered with screens displaying footage from numerous security cameras. The moment I entered,
all the screens went black. A few seconds later, the director walked in.
Richard Bennett was around sixty years old. He closed the door, sat across from me, and stared at my face for a long time.
Not the way an employer studies a candidate. It was as if he was trying to remember where he had seen me before.
He barely asked about my education or work experience. Instead, he asked:
“Does anyone know you’re here today?”
My heart began beating faster.
“My sister knows.”
I lied. My sister, Sarah, had disappeared three years earlier, and I hadn’t told anyone about the interview. Richard’s expression
sharpened.
“You have a sister?”
“I did.”
He looked as though he wanted to ask something else, but stopped himself.
“You haven’t drunk the water?”
“No.”
By then, everything felt far too suspicious. I grabbed my bag and stood up.
“I don’t think this position is right for me.”
Richard stood as well and moved in front of the door.
“Please, sit down.”
“Move away from the door.”
He reached into his pocket. I heard a faint click, and the door locked from the inside.
Terrified, I stepped back.
“What are you doing?”
“Trying to get you out of here alive.”
I didn’t believe him.
He looked at the glass on the desk, then said in an unusually loud voice:
“Emily, you’re hired. Congratulations.”
His words seemed directed not at me, but at someone who might be listening.
Then he moved closer and whispered:
“Whatever happens, don’t touch that glass.”
The next moment, he raised his voice again.
“But first… would you allow me to hold your hand for a few seconds?”
I stared at him in disbelief.
“What?”
“Please, trust me.”
“Open the door.”
I tried to get around him, but he suddenly grabbed my wrist and pulled me away from the desk. I screamed in fear and tried
to free my hand.
At that moment, the door burst open, and four security officers rushed into the office.
At first, I thought they had come to stop the director. But two of them immediately ran toward reception and returned with
Margaret.
They placed her in handcuffs.
“What’s happening?” I shouted.
Richard released my hand.
“I’m sorry. We had to make her believe you were going to drink the water.”
One of the security officers picked up the glass with gloved hands and placed it inside a transparent evidence bag.
“During the last six months, five young women came here for interviews,” Richard said. “None of them ever returned home.”
A shiver ran through my body.
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“They had no evidence connecting their disappearances to this company. Margaret erased their visitor records and disabled
the hallway cameras. Today, we installed hidden cameras.”
“Then why did you call me here? Why did you put my life in danger?”
Richard silently walked toward the large screen on the wall and switched it on.
The reception area appeared on the screen. The footage was from several hours earlier. Margaret was sitting alone at her
desk, speaking on the phone. Richard turned up the volume.
“This one is special,” Margaret said. “She’s the missing girl’s sister. If Emily remembers where Sarah was going the last time
she saw her, she could ruin everything.”
I froze.
“She knew Sarah?”
Richard opened another video. It had been recorded three years earlier.
Sarah entered the same reception area, sat in the same chair, and accepted an identical glass of water from Margaret.
I covered my mouth with my hand.
“Oh, my God…” 
The footage continued. A few minutes later, Sarah’s head dropped, and she lost consciousness.
But then something happened that no one expected.
Margaret didn’t approach her. She opened the corridor door and stepped aside fearfully.
A man entered, picked up my sister, and carried her away.
When the camera captured his face, Richard suddenly grabbed the edge of the desk.
“That’s impossible,” he whispered.
I recognized the man at once.
He was our family lawyer, Michael—the man who had led the search for Sarah for three years and assured my mother every week that he was doing everything possible to find her.
But the most horrifying revelation was still to come.
Margaret laughed and looked directly at me for the first time.
“You think Sarah was a victim?” she said. “She was the one who gave Michael the names of the other four women.”
A deathly silence filled the room.
At that exact moment, my phone rang inside my bag—even though I had turned it off.
The screen displayed one name:
**Sarah.**
With trembling hands, I answered.
After three years of silence, I heard my sister’s voice.
“Emily, don’t trust anyone. Especially Richard Bennett. He didn’t save you. He’s the one who chose the next woman…”
She paused.
“And that woman is you.”
