363: BACK TO FULBRIGHT CITY

BACK TO FULBRIGHT CITY

The office room looked no different from the last time she was here. Nothing changed, including the password of the private elevator that brought her to the basement.2

Raine was totally confused about everything now, she didn't have the least of the idea why she was here.

Inside the elevator, when Raine put the little bird in her pocket jacket, she felt  something heavy and hard inside. It was her phone.

Raine had never felt so grateful for sleeping without changing her clothes first, so she still had everything basic with her, like her phone, her wallet and she was even wearing her warm jacket in this slightly cold night.

First thing that Raine had to do was to find a hotel to stay and then thought this over carefully, she also needed to call Calleb, Serefina and Raphael. She could meet the Beta since they were in the same city now.

Raine shuffled between the cars, afraid that she would be caught by the CCTV surveillance. She covered her head with her hoodie and walked barefoot toward the exit of the parking lot.

Raine knew this place very well and could avoid the security if she was careful enough.

She didn't want to be seen by anyone while she was here, because she heard that this Company had been acquired by de Medici Family, to which Belphegor, oddly enough, was the head of the family.

However, there was another thing that bothered Raine. de Medici family pointed Andoori Family to be their partner as the replacement of Torak Donovan.

It was weird enough because as long as Raine could remember, Andoori family wasn't an outstanding or prominent family in this city. They couldn't offer many benefits to the de Medici family.

And also the fact that Raine became closer and friendlier to Sunny recently along with her vision left her feeling perplexed. The last thought thought scared her when she remembered the  blood on her hands in her vision.

Raine took a deep breath, then walked on the street across the Donovan building. She needed to find a hotel, a cheap one.

Not because she didn't have money. Raine, fortunately, brought her wallet with her, so all the cards inside were enough for her to stay in the most expensive hotel.

But, she couldn't do that, knowing Torak had became the most wanted person after his crimes for killing many police officers and the people inside the library building, they would absolutely look for her too.

Thus Raine wanted to look for a cheap hotel that didn't require a complicated procedure to check in.

Raine knew one place that would be perfect for her now.

"One room please." Raine said in low voice, covering half of her face as she stood in front of a reception table, behind which was a middle age woman, sitting languidly.

The woman looked at Raine, as she maintained a calm expression, and said the price. After Raine paid for her room, the woman gave her the key.

"Is today Friday, the may 8th?" Raine wanted to make sure that she just moved to another place and not jumped to another year. She was tired of this.

"Yes." The woman replied as she yawned. "Third floor, the eighth room from the stairs." She added.

"Got it." Raine turned around to leave when the woman shouted at her again.

"Use the stairs, the elevator doesn't work." She informed her in her thick accent.

"Okey." Raine kept her words very short as she jogged to the third floor by stairs.

The eighth room from the stairs was actually the last room at the corner of this hallway. This place was usually used by people who only looked for a short stay or a backpacker who was short of money or any other brief activity that Raine didn't want to think about now.

The moment she was inside her room, Raine let out a deep breath that she didn't realize she had been holding, her tense shoulders also relaxed slightly.

Raine scanned her room briefly.

There was only a single bed, covered in white sheets and a pillow, a small bedside table and a table with a chair, facing the window. From her window, she could see the Donovan building a bit far from here.

Raine made sure the door was locked before she walked toward the bed and laid her tired body.

Raine felt something moving inside her pocket and pulled out the bird. "Did you do all this?" she questioned the bird, which let out a weak squeal.

She looked into the creature's red eyes and put it on her chest before she made a phone call to Calleb.

"Why are you calling me when you are just inside your room?" Calleb was still awake, apparently, because Torak had gone missing and Raphael also wasn't around, he had a lot of things on his hands that needed to be handled.

The Gamma had to coordinate with the other Alphas to gather information about Torak's situation, any suspicious movement in the Fulbright city or anything that out of ordinary.

"I am not inside my room." Raine glanced at the clock on the wall. It showed three o'clock in the morning.

"Wait, what!?"

From across the phone Raine could hear Calleb stomping on the floor heavily as he stormed toward her bedroom.

Not long after, Calleb roared over the phone. "Where are you!?" he sounded very angry because he thought Raine had sneaked out of her bedroom to do something stupid. "Why are you not inside your room?!"

"Relax. Let me explain." Raine tried to calm him down, but Calleb started riling up before she could utter her explanation.

"Girl, you better stay where you are and don't roam around alone until I get to you!" Calleb was breathless when Raine heard a jingling sound of car key. "Now tell me where you are!!" His voice rose a few octaves.

Raine was quite irritated by the way Calleb talked to her, he had not yet heard her explanation, but already jumped into conclusions.

"I am in Fulbright city. Inside a cheap hotel near the Donovan building!" Raine bit back. "And no. I am not a girl. I am your Luna!"

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