Chapter 85. The Only Escape

Instantly, she threw away the receiver as if it scalded her, and her hands moved to cover her hung-open mouth. Her eyes, wide-struck with shock, couldn't believe her ears.

It was him on the other side?

"Who-who is he?" she asked Dina, who was quickly picking up the receiver that Sheharzaad had thrown.

"Mr. Shehryaar. The owner of this hotel chain," she told her, before answering him on the phone.

Sheharzaad felt fear paralyzing her.

Owner of the hotel... Shehryaar.

And it made her realize the deep shit she was in. If it was his hotel, then it would be impossible for her to escape from here. She damned herself for agreeing to this obnoxious game in the first place. He only proposed those things in front of her, about which he was sure that he would win. Rather, Sheharzaad thought, his clever, deceptive, and mafia mind would make him win at everything he would do. And that thought made her fe