Part 8

"Haris, I need your help. Can we meet?" Adaline asked.

"Is it really urgent? Can't it wait?" he inquired after a brief silence.

"No, it can't. It's an emergency," she replied.

"Alright. Meet me on the office rooftop during lunch break," he said again. Adaline agreed before ending the call. She glanced at her watch; lunch break was half an hour away. Adaline hoped she wouldn't get stuck in traffic and that Haris would still wait for her if she was a little late.

Adaline hurriedly walked to the elevator, heading to the nineteenth floor, from where she would take the emergency stairs to the twenty-first floor. Her foot tapped impatiently on the elevator floor. When the elevator doors opened on the nineteenth floor, Adaline felt relieved that no one she knew greeted her during the journey. She was confused about explaining her presence in the office since she had requested leave earlier.

Adaline pushed open the thick iron door of the rooftop with all her might. The wind, mixed with the he