Chapter 84 | A Date and A Disaster

I followed Marcus to the hallway where all the guests were accommodated, including my family. He lightly tapped on a door and stepped in.

The windows facing the courtyard were all shut and I couldn't hear a thing. I exited the house through the garden entrance to see if the room had windows facing the river like ours. I scaled up to the second floor and stayed behind the window curtains.

"It just occurred to me now. No wonder she couldn't visit Chicago." I heard Marcus's voice.

"If the stones work only one way, how were we able to return then?"

"I think by one way, it means the place where they can be activated from. We can activate my stone only from here. And hers only from Chicago. We used the portal you created from here to return. If the portal had closed, I think we would have been stuck in Chicago."

Chicago, portal, stones... what was he talking about? Maybe they were speaking in a mixed language because most of it sounded like gibb