You go ahead and delete the message. Well, now we won't have to deal with that.
You hear footsteps and voices outside the door, so you frantically look around the room for a decent hiding place. There appears to be a gap behind the mirror that you might be able to squeeze through; you could definitely fit under the bed; or you could curl up in a cabinet somewhere. Or, of course, you could just outright kill the commander and be done with it, but that would be silly.
Which will it be?