Novel & Cerita The Unforeseen Guest

I am still choosing you. --- Dinner was laughter and clinking glasses and stories we had told before but told again because they had become the mythology of us. The time Lena had fallen into the lake trying to prove she could balance on a log. The night Sophia and I had gotten lost in the city and ended up at a twenty-four-hour diner, eating pancakes at 3 AM while the world slept. The first dinner party Alex and I had hosted, when the soufflé had collapsed and we had ordered pizza and pretended it had been the plan all along.

Unfortunately as what expected, the three weren't able to get inside the room because of the forgotten password. While Adam is running, he saw different rooms. Grandpa's lab is so amazing. Until, he saw the biggest room where he thinks they can put the zombies while the cure is not yet discovered. He entered the biggest room quietly and pressed something that may cause noise or sound so the zombies will follow him when he gets inside of it. The room was messy and dirty, it looks like a stock room, there are spider webs, ants and different insects living there for years, signs that the laboratory was abandoned for many years.

he asked with a smile on his lips. "Sorry. I just remember somethin—” "What?" he asked. "I saw something on my stuffs at my room and I saw a book entitled Unexpected Love. I saw your name on a piece of paper that includes your number. I'm just going to ask, why do I have your book? Am I a fan of yours? Did we meet before? Why can’t I recognize you? Why do you have an envelope that I'm the addressee?" she asked spontaneously due to confusion. She saw him nothing but a blank expression on his face. She waits for him to react or respond on her questions but he kept his silence. "Answer me." she said.

“It’s just the body’s way of wringing itself out. Clears space for what comes next.” I liked that. We sat in silence for a moment as the maid returned with two tall glasses of something fruity over ice. Lauren raised hers in a mock toast. “To unannounced visits and unexpected guests.” I clinked my glass with hers. “And confusing older brothers.” She grinned. “Especially them.” ⸻ Anna (Continued) Anna took another sip of her drink, letting the coolness soothe the swirl of nerves growing steadily in her stomach. The conversation with Lauren had eased some of her uneasiness, but now that the topic of the gala was approaching, the fluttering returned.

As she headed in that direction, she didn’t notice that someone entering the restaurant at that exact moment had already spotted her. The four men remained alert at their table. Adam watched her until she disappeared down the hallway. They were so focused and on edge that when a woman accidentally bumped into a waiter, causing him to drop a few things, all of them instantly looked in that direction, hands almost reaching for their weapons. In that brief moment of distraction, the person who had just arrived at the restaurant slipped toward the restroom unnoticed.

But that just proves the saying to expect the unexpected. Collin Oscar Cole is the most unexpected person to enter my life. I was pulled from my thoughts as my phone buzzed. Turning my head, I raised an eyebrow seeing Collin’s name on the caller id. “He’s home already?” I furrowed my brow picking up my phone. I realized it wasn’t that he got home quickly but that I’d spent lying here thinking about him for that long. Of course, he was already home. It’s cute that he was texting me when he got home.

He looks around the room and his face twists into a look of disapproval. "You know you out move tomorrow, right?" he asks. "Packing is not one of my skills, Mr. Andrews," I groan. "We have time to finish what we need to, tomorrow." He smiles. "How about a break for the evening?" "What do you have in mind?" I ask, using the back of my hand to wipe sweat from my forehead. It better not be sex, because I am disgusting right now. "There's an unexpected visitor in town this evening and I'd love for you to meet him." Excitement flickers in his eyes.

Each time, I saw nothing unusual—just elegantly dressed guests chatting and laughing with glasses of champagne in hand. Still, the unease lingered. At one point, I thought I saw a man standing near the back of the room, his face obscured by the shadow of his brimmed hat. Somehow, even though I couldn’t see his eyes, his gaze seemed to bore into me and sent a shiver down my spine. But when I blinked, he was gone, as if he had never been there at all. “Mommy, catch me!” Zoe’s voice snapped me out of my thoughts. She darted past me, her laughter echoing through the room as she weaved between the guests.

Instead of exclaiming in anger, the man broke into a heavy laugh. “Don't worry about that, the silly maids would change them after we are done.” What were they going to do? I became curious, I wanted to know what they were going to do. With the urge of seeing what they were going to do, I opened the door a little but it made a creaking sound. “Oh, I forgot, today we have a guest with us, Cheyenne,” oh no, what was I doing? I immediately wished the floor could just open and swallow me alive.

The repetitive motions allowed me to escape the constant fear and uncertainty that plagued my life. But then, strange things began to happen. Luna Nora had started entertaining odd guests—people who came to the palace not for business, but for secretive, whispered meetings. I noticed them slipping into the palace quietly, almost as if they didn’t want anyone to know they were there. One afternoon, I was asked to serve drinks to these mysterious guests. As I approached the dining room, I overheard low voices through the thick wooden door.