CHAPTER 17

THE ELEVATOR DOOR closed before Layla or Ambert could react on Nancy’s sudden reappearance.

“What just happened?” Anika asked, alternately looking at Layla and Ambert. “You both looked like you’ve just seen a ghost.”

“That’s Nancy,” Ambert said.

“The woman in red?” Anika said. Nancy was wearing a red shirt and blue jeans when they saw her approaching the elevator.

Ambert nodded.

“Why is she here?” Anika asked.

“To talk to me or Layla.”

“How did she know that you’re still here?”

“She sent me a text message an hour ago, asking me if I was still in the hotel,” he said. “I said yes and she didn’t reply anymore. I had too much in my mind that it didn’t occur to me that she wanted to go back here.”

“Shall we go back to your room?” Anika said. “She’d go there and wait; she knows that we’ve seen her.”

Ambert glanced at Layla. “Shall we?”

“Yes,” she answered. “If she wants to talk to me, I will talk to her.”

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