CHAPTER 55

"MA'AM, I APOLOGIZE TO YOU ON BEHALF OF THE ENTIRE STAFF!!" Kane County ran over me, up and again irritating me like a set flies.

After Conan suggested we pack up and leave, Kane immediately called in room service who packed out luggage for us.

We spared no minute more in the lodge and left the very second our luggage was transported to the airport.

"Ma'am...listen to me...Please....Even I don't understand how the corpse got into your bathroom....I assure you..." he pleaded and I stopped for a minute.

"Let's say I believe you. And anyway, I locked my room so how could someone get in as you claim. But doesn't the hotel have master keys??" I asked and Adam widened his eyes like I'd reminded him of a very important point he left out.

"It does...and the key is always with me..." he explained.

"So does that mean you're the one who dumped the dead girl there??"

"No no...no..it wasn't me. I was in San Antonio the day it happened for my father's commemoration..." he explained with folded hands as though begging me for something.

"It's true....we did a thorough check and he has a perfect alibi..." Conan confirmed and Kane nodded desperately.

"Then please explain how it was possible for someone to break into my room without shattering s single glass, and possibly managed to drop a rotten dead girl in my tub and left swiftly like that...." I asked pointing my fingers sternly at him.

"Exactly! And whoever it was, must've known that we were sharing the rooms with a door in between and yet still dumped the body on her side....This means that someone is purposely attacking her!!!!" Adam gritted his teeth in frustration and fervently kept running his hands in his hair.

He was stressed. I could feel a storm arising from the bottom of his conscious as he was somehow blaming himself for all this.

He went down in anger and for the very first time, he had a panic attack. What was going on??

"Adam...are you alright??" I took my bad off and asked him, bending down to check on him.

"Am sorry...." he cried hugging himself. I wiped his tears away and tried to make him focus on me.

"What? What are you sorry for???" I asked.

"It's all my fault....it's all my fault...." he cried and buried his head across my shoulder. He was still mumbling the same words and I went blank.

What exactly was going on!

"What does he mean by that???" Conan asked and I gave him a death stare. I saw through his mind down to what he was thinking and I got frustrated.

"Do you really want to list his name as a suspect now??? You're definitely out of your mind. He's worried about me and you're asking what he means??" I asked full of anger only for him to stand in his shoes, calm and collected.

I turned to Adam and rubbed his back, hoping he can wouldn't break down further than this.

"If I never wanted to see Machupicchu, we wouldn't have come to Peru and none of this would have happened...."

"No...no...no...no...don't think like that. It's nobody's fault....we just wanna have fun and some people just wanna ruin it...." I convinced him and he still felt guilty.

"Please....please trust me. It's not your fault....look at me...." I asked and after moments of delay, he looked at me. His eyes shone with red like wine following his crying.

A tear tickled my cheek and his chin trembled fell to her knees, crying out. My lips trembled as I cried. Seeing him like this was torturing me.

He started chewing on his lower lip and his eyes welled up with tears He looked away as his face turn red. A tear was forming but I wouldn't let it fall. A single tear squeezed out of his wild eyes and filled to the brim with tears.

I wiped mine and asked him to stand up with me.

"It's not your fault nor mine....okay? Look...." I rushed to Conan and held his hand. "This man will help us get to the bottom of all this. Alright?" I rushed back to him and his arms welcomed me into a beautiful embrace. I had no words to tell him that would offer him utmost comfort but I hoped my hug would do just about the trick.

"I love you...." I heard him say and I broke the hug pecking his nose.

"I'll let you love me today..." I smiled and he smiled back.

"Thank you" he said and I held his hand. It was eight in the night and we managed to secure a flight to Florida as the next was tomorrow earliest which Conan declined.

"I guess we should leave...." I told him and he nodded.

"I'll do a thorough research here for the next couple of days and I'll meet you up there...." he replied.

"Sure...." I nodded. I turned to Kane and he still had an anxious look on his face.

"This isn't over. If you know what's what for yourself, you will almost interrogate your entire staff and get to the bottom of this. Maybe someone might had had your master key copied and printed out...."

"Precisely ma'am...." he agreed. "I'll do it...."

"You're lucky I don't want to publicise this case....am not the kind that creates a fuss just about anything. I'll handle it my own way and you'd better follow my lead..."

"I promise I will ma'am...." he folded his hands again and I waved at Conan, turning around to leave with Adam.

We were already at the airport and walked towards the check point when my phone rang.

Remembering my previous episode, I swallowed and quickly looked at the caller ID.

"Who is it ?" Adam asked.

"Ciara...." I replied tapping answer.

"Are you still having a shower?? In case you've forgotten, it's two hours later....." I chuckled and moved the phone to my other ear.

"Sis, I don't know how to tell you this but.....something terrible happened.Were coming back to Florida right now...."

"What???" she asked in fright. "What happened?? Is it with Adam?"

"No..." I hesitated and rubbed my forehead. " Are you alone???"

"Sure am in the bathroom and don't worry, call's encrypted...." she calmed my spirits.

"Yesterday, Adam and I left for the Inka trail and we came back this morning. We went for whitewater rafting and came back this evening...." I paused and covered my mouth preventing a shrill of pain from coming out.

"...then what happened?? Then what happened?? God am so nervous ...." she chanted and I understood her tension.

" I found my bathtub filled with soiled blood with a dead rotten girl in it!" I sobbed and I didn't miss the whimper from the other end of the line.

"W-what???" she stammered.

"Yes ,Ciara. someone dumped a dead body in my room and she had a note in her hand...." I cried.

"Note??"

"It said Leave Adam or you're next!"