Chapter 51

SHANIA IN MY ROOM Amelia? Did Nicolas just take my wife’s name? It is weird she called my workplace. I left my phone in the room in this rush, I remember, but I gave her this number only for emergencies. Is there an emergency? I think to myself and hoping everything is okay, I rush to speak on the landline phone with her. “Yes, Amelia?” I say when I take the phone receiver from Nicolas. “George, why aren’t you answering my call?” She asked me without asking about my situation. “Is there any emergency?” I cross-question to understand how to respond to Amelia calling me at the hotel’s board-line number. “I want to know who came to your room at this time of the night,” she bluntly responds. “This isn’t a good time, Amelia. I am busy. Please go to sleep. I’ll call you in the morning,” I say, sounding polite and professional with people around me handling the investor’s wife, post which I hang up on her. The minute I come back to the scene, I think of something that will be appropriate in t