Reborn with Nothing but My Farm and Vengeance in the Apocalypse novel Chapter 178

Chapter 178: Chapter 178: Swallowing the Leopard

Meanwhile, Melody Summers had driven to the area near The Crestview Hotel.

Unlike the Oceanus Hotel, located in the heart of the city, The Crestview Hotel was in a more remote area.

Melody Summers parked in a hidden alley near the hotel. Seeing no cameras around, she stored the car in her space.

She sized up the hotel by the dim glow of the scattered streetlights. ’This place seems even better suited for illegal activities than the Oceanus Hotel...’ she thought.

With no tall buildings nearby, The Crestview Hotel was completely shrouded in the night. The only thing to break the oppressive silence and darkness was the faint light seeping from its windows.

Melody Summers took a deep breath and walked toward The Crestview Hotel.

As she walked, she recalled her drive over. She had encountered two separate groups of people trying to flag her down, but she hadn’t stopped either time.

Thinking of the recent string of kidnappings, Melody thought, ’If I were a kidnapper, I would absolutely take advantage of a remote hotel like this.’

But on her walk over, she hadn’t encountered any kidnappers or other suspicious characters.

As she reached the entrance of The Crestview Hotel, the bright lights made her squint. She pushed her thoughts aside and walked straight inside.

Just as she entered the lobby, a greeter in a suit approached her. He glanced at Melody Summers’s neat and tidy attire before asking, "Are you here to check in?"

Melody Summers replied, "No, thank you. My cousin arranged to meet me in room 1108."

Upon hearing this, the greeter’s smile stiffened. He gave Melody Summers a strange look and asked, "May I have your last name, please?"

Melody Summers replied, "It’s Summers."

The greeter froze, a flash of surprise on his face, but he quickly composed himself and said politely to Melody, "Please wait a moment. I’ll go inform the guest in 1108."

Then he turned and walked away.

Melody Summers walked over to a sofa in the lobby and sat down, discreetly observing the people coming and going.

So far, nothing about the hotel seemed out of the ordinary.

Suddenly, she saw the doors of an elevator directly across from her sofa slide open.

Inside stood two people: a pot-bellied, middle-aged man with his arm around a slender young woman.

As the doors opened, the pot-bellied man leaned over and planted a kiss on the young woman’s cheek before reluctantly stepping out of the elevator.

The young woman, however, did not follow him out. Instead, she pressed the ’close door’ button, and the elevator doors began to slide shut.

In the last second before the doors closed completely, Melody Summers got a clear look at the young woman’s face. She shot to her feet. That girl—

She looked exactly like Adam Lawson and Noelle Quillan’s daughter—Joelle Lawson!

The scene before her was almost identical to the one Melody had witnessed at the Oceanus Hotel!

The same setting in an elevator, the same girl who was a dead ringer for Joelle Lawson, and the same type of pot-bellied, middle-aged man.

Melody’s brow twitched. She rushed to the elevator, but the doors were already closed, and the car was descending.

Watching the floor indicator above the door, Melody saw the elevator stop at the second basement level.

Meanwhile, the greeter had slipped around a corner and was hurriedly calling Flynn Adler.

Flynn Adler had given prior instructions: if a young woman with the last name Summers asked for room 1108, he was to be notified immediately.

The call connected quickly. On the other end of the line, Flynn Adler was surprised to hear that Melody Summers had actually come.

His men had reported Blondie’s little scheme to him, and he’d thought it was utterly idiotic and riddled with holes.

’In this day and age, how could Melody Summers possibly come all the way out here alone?’

He had anticipated that she might call the police or notify Nina Summers’s parents, and he had already made the necessary arrangements to handle that.

He was even preparing to send people to stake out her house and try a different approach.

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