Allure of Darkness!

26. Creepy Hotel!

Marona's POV

I don't know where I am and I am safe or not. I don't know anything, I am just hiding in the other city.

I had no idea what to do after finding out that he killed Laurence to marry me. That tune! He whistles that evil tone.
When I heard that tune in the club near Laurence's dead body, I ignored it even though there was a doubt in my mind,
but still I was thinking that maybe it's a coincidence but it wasn't. I should have not ignored that, the whole club was silent after Laurence's death but the person was whistling, it was obvious that he was enjoying it.
It's sick!
This tune belongs to the rare tribal people which they play whenever they kill or trap their enemy as a victory.

If you are dead, my victory's claim,
But if you live, prepare—I'll fan the flame.

It says that If you are dead then I killed you and that's my victory, if I didn't kill you then I am coming for you to meet the victory.
It sounds more dangerous in tribal language than what I have explained now.
They have the rule that the song is to be strictly played when the enemy dies or dying.

Mikhail whistled it in the club when he killed Laurence, he whistled it yesterday too but I didn't know whom he killed to sing his victory. The next day I asked Lovina and she informed me that Mikhail ordered to kill the man in the basement over a phone call. When I matched the time of his phone call and the whistle in the closet, it matched.
Which proved that he only whistles when he kills people.
But how does he know this tune? Only a few people outside the tribe know this.

Anyways, he was always mysterious and now he is driving me crazy. I can't take this, he always scares me.
I had to make the decision and decided to escape from the craziness. That house suffocates me, I feel stressed whenever he is around, I couldn't even breathe properly and I can't live like that for the rest of my life. It's not good for me.

I am in the other city. I took the bus instead of a private cab or train which are obvious transports. It was not easy to trick his guards but I did.

I finally reached the hotel, Hywala. It's small and not that famous which makes it safe from Mikhail's eyes. If he looks for me then he will look in big hotels. I have not left any digital footprints behind. Even the phone is off.

I don't know how I am going to be successful but I am not yet caught so I guess I'll survive after this too.
I entered the hotel and did the check in. The room was small and the windows were smaller. No, it's not going to work. I am feeling suffocating here. I am already gagged up by the problems in my life, not going to accept this.

I went downstairs and approached the manager.
"Excuse me! I am claustrophobic and the windows in my room are too small. May I get a room which has bigger windows or a balcony."
I requested.

The manager was a mid-age man. He looked at me with a frown. Oh god, did he recognise me or what?
"Of course, Ma'am! There is only one room which has a balcony and luckily it's not occupied."

I smiled. Thank God!
I changed the room and quickly closed the door.

It feels like Mikhail is watching me every second. I am so paranoid.
He has problems. He is too controlling and scary.
I don't know what he wants from me.

Last night when he got out of bed, I heard him talking to someone but no one was there. He was talking to the chair and it really scared the shit out of me.
I know that he has problems and he might be seeing illusions, that's not what scares me because I meet that kind of person everyday. What scared me was, he knows that he is sick and still he was talking to his illusion.
He needs help and the dangerous thing is, he thinks he doesn't need any.