GAMMA ADONAI

Chapter 18

BALQIS'S POV

I blinked hurriedly for a split second because it felt as if I was dreaming right now.

Just a minute ago, I was with Adonai, whom I hadn't seen in eight fuckin years, now I'm stuck here with a girl...

Wait... I bent lower to look at her face. This is the girl I saved yesterday at the restaurant?

My blood froze, my whole body felt as if I'd just been thrown into a deep freezer.

Instinctively, I fell on my knees to check for her pulse through her blood-covered body. "WTH...." She's still breathing.

"Hey..." I called gently, my heart still drumming madly, as I tapped her gently.

No response at the first and second tap. "Dear can you hear me?" I asked again with fear and no response.

I was about to freak out when her eyes fluttered open, shocking me.

"Hey... Are you fine?" I ran my hand over her blood-stained voice, not knowing what to do.

"3..3...5th floor" She whispered slowly. "video...they... pushed..." Then she stopped.

I don't understand anything from what she was saying but I was still nodding.

I tapped her when she stopped. "What happened on the 35th floor, dear?"

No response. Her eyes were open, blood from her head streamed to her eyes, and I quickly cleaned it as I shook her, not minding my blue dress now stained with blood. "Hey...Hey, stay awake. Did you..."

Her hand dropped, she felt heavy and cold. "No," I shook my head quickly, blinking repeatedly, praying that what I was thinking wasn't the case.

"Hey!" I cried again, my voice trembling, as I shook her even more than normal but she felt lifeless.

I need no one to tell me this. "She's...." No. "She...". No!!! She can't be dead.

"Hey!!!" I slapped her hand painfully, this time so she would wake up, but she was still numb.

My whole body suddenly felt as if I was thrown into a hot furnace, sweat broke from my forehead, and my throat dried up like the well of Galilee.

I rushed to get the phone that I'd thrown aside and tap on it, then left the girl to rush into the still-opened elevator.

I don't know why, I was still fumbling with my phone and hadn't clicked any floor from the elevator button, but it was moving by itself.

I dropped the phone. Panic and Frenzy seized my whole body. "Hey!! Why are you moving by yourself?" I banged the buttons as if the elevator would hear me.

But when it wouldn't stop, I grabbed my phone again and was about to tap on emergency call, then the elevator stopped.

I looked up, it'd opened, and I was on the ground floor where the party was going on.

The crowd is dancing, it took a while before they noticed me, so I jumped out and rushed to the security. "Excuse me..."

"Oh!" The young security officer yelled as he saw me waving his baton toward me, and I raised my hand immediately.

The people at the back were quick to notice the scene. Everyone gasped as they saw me.

I know I look really weird right now, soaked in blood and sweat, looking messy as well.

"Oh my goodness!"

"Did she murder someone?"

My eyes widened as I heard this. "No. I didn't kill anyone. I..."

The music stopped, calling everyone's attention to us, including the people at the high table and, of course, Nirvana, Adonai, Sheila, Alpha Keira,n, and Luna Onika.

"Why is it soaked in blood?"

My head was still above my head. "There.. There's a girl...a girl in the elevator at... she's hurt... I... just found her, she..."

I stopped and quickly ran my hand over my hair to compose myself because right now, I know I'm not making any sense.

"Is she mentally alright?" I heard someone through the crowd again.

Their comments and hatred made me feel cornered. I couldn't defend myself; all sorts of comments hit me from different angles until Nirvana stepped forward.

For a second, I thought frantically that she would help me by telling them she saw me earlier.

But to my surprise, her gaze swept past me coldly. "She's my sister"

My heart felt grateful, finally, Nirvana will be useful for me.

"But I can't vouch for her" she suddenly dropped. "She was acting all strange that evening, drinking and stumbling around drunkenly... I don't know what to do..."

My whole world fell as she said this. "Nirv..."

"Tell them the truth Bally!" She snapped at my face. "I can't trust you, so what are you saying?"

"But I..." Tears rushed down my face immediately.

"I'm sorry Balqis. I can't cover for you" She looked away. "I saw you went upstairs"

The room turned into chaos again.

I felt suffocated just like before, everybody looking at me accusingly.

"She seemed unstable"

"Seems like she needs help medically"

"What are you all doing?" Luna Onika ran forward, her eyes filled with worry. "We should at least see who she said was in danger first"

"Not everything is about your kindness, Luna Onika!" Nirvana faced the woman sharply. "She's my sister, we grew up together, and I know her better than anyone!"

"But someone needs help" Luna Onika cried.

Nirvana looked to the crowd, and I don't know why, but I caught her making eye contact with Alpha Keiran who nodded at her.

I haven't figured this out, she pulled Luna Onika. "If we help her, we're becoming her accomplice in murder then"

"But we should...."

"Darling" Alpha Keiran called and stepped forward to pull his wife. "I'll handle this, don't worry"

The woman looked at me with pity and as if she was telling me, 'Sorry I can't help you'

Alpha Keiran put a call through, and in the next minute, police flooded the floor, my hand handcuffed, my phone collected as evidence.

Everything felt like a movie. I don't even know what to say. I felt lost.

I was looking around, maybe I was still dreaming, but it was damn true. Everything is reality.

Before I was pulled away, Adonai's eyes met mine. Those blue eyes were stern as if they could freeze the ocean.

Sheila held his hand possessively.

*Tell them I was with you, Adonai. Help me* I cried in my mind, wishing he could help me.

But his eyes remain frozen and anguished as Sheila pulls him away from the scene.

My heart shattered into a thousand tiny pieces. More years streamed down my face and I felt lost.

I guess the police went upstairs to check.

They came back with a body on a wheel. I tried running to her, but the police were strong.

"Did you murder her?" A police officer asked.

Every accused me. I shook my head vehemently. "I didn't..."

"Care to explain this?" He asked raising my bangle. Soaked with blood.

"I don't know anything about it. I just find her..."

"You'll be interrogated in the police station, come with us"

Then they pulled me with them. "I don't kill her! I was framed!!" I cried frantically, but the police were brutally strong.

"I didn't kill her"

People take pictures and videos, but I was helpless and left alone to face my fate.

"Mommy!" I suddenly heard Riot's tiny voice.

Through the panic and chaos, I stopped, looked back to see my precious son pushing through the crowd to see his mother in handcuffs, drenched in blood.

My tears flowed endlessly. His blue eyes sank in confusion and embarrassment as the camera was directly at him.

The crowd is accusing him, too.

"Is that her son?"

"The son of a murderer!"

"Such a fine boy..."

He ran to me and held my gown. "What happened? Why are they taking you away?"

I smiled forcefully through my tears. "Baby it's nothing. I'll be back soon"

"No mommy"

Isis appeared with her nanny, both of them trying to pull Riot off me.

Riot was now crying. It breaks my heart even further, seeing my only son in this situation.

Why is life so cruel? I met his father today, brought him to his dream house, and made today his nightmare...

"I'll be fine, Riot. Stay safe until..."

"I want to come too," he insisted, as the police kept on pulling me with difficulty until we were outside the building, to where the journalists were.

This is the hell of it all. The whole camera flash, panic, chaos, and confusion made me run through the crowd, and Riot was lost somewhere in the middle.

Before I entered the police van, my eyes and Alpha Keirans met even though a lot of people were around. He raised a glass of wine with a satisfied smile. Nirvana appeared beside him, then blew me a kiss.

My soul shook with terror.

No need for any sage. The truth is here playing by itself.... THEY BOTH PLANNED THIS.