In the evening of that day, Calvin pushed his "friend," who had "limited mobility," downstairs. He and Reed had their little luggage under a wheelchair (God knows where Reed got it) and planned to leave the motel, which was far from "comfortable" and "clean".

At the front desk of the inn was a somewhat obese black woman, who kindly helped Calvin lift his wheelchair as he passed through the front hall.

"Thank you. ”

Calvin said.

"No thanks......" replied the front desk lady.

Things should have gone well, but Calvin suddenly felt the lady's gaze resting on his face.

At this moment, a cold sweat broke out on Calvin's back. When he came to stay overnight, everything was so chaotic that he only had time to do the most basic disguise, but now Reed helped him modify his face and facial features to the greatest extent possible with clay and foundation before he went out. Calvin wondered if it was this inconsistency that made the lady suspicious.

He remained calm, and then looked back at the front desk: "Is there a problem?"

He asked.

The woman was stunned for a moment, and then she came back to her senses a little embarrassed: "Oh, sorry, I just almost saw you as some kind of star-" She burst into laughter, "God, I must be dizzy, celebrities don't live in a hell of a place like ours, oh damn it, shouldn't I say 'ghost place'......"

Calvin kept a faint smile amid the chatter and laughter of the woman, as if everything was a trivial vignette. But only he knew that the cold sweat from his palms almost made it impossible for him to hold on to Reed's wheelchair. He almost wanted to disappear right in front of the lady at the front desk, the kind that didn't want even a little smoke to be left behind.

Reed, too, seemed to sense his nervousness, and he raised his hand and gently placed it on the back of Calvin's hand.

"Honey, I think maybe we should hurry up—"

It was while Reed was speaking that Calvin saw the woman.

Actually, it's weird.

Calvin felt a voice in his head muttering, in that calm, indifferent voice.

The woman has become like this, how can you recognize her at the first sight?

The voice was right.

Calvin himself felt that he would not be able to recognize him.

The woman was very old and ugly, she wore an ankle-length sleeveless yellow dress that looked like it hadn't been washed in two months, and her collar was loosely turned out, and a black, greenish gloss floated on it. The skirt was supposed to fit well, but now it hung over her like a rag bag, and her arms were thin and peeking out of the cuffs like burnt firewood, and the cuffs were empty, as if her breasts could slip out of them at any accident.

Calvin remembered the last time he saw her—she wasn't in a good condition, of course, but she wasn't as emaciated as she was now. Even her hair had faded and turned a lifeless grayish-white.

The corners of her eyes and mouth were shrouded in fine wrinkles, and her eyeballs trembled unnormally.

"Madeleine?"

Calvin muttered in disbelief in a very soft voice.

He grabbed Reid hard with his backhand, and for a moment he was almost completely unable to move.

Isa's swollen face, dull ginger hair flashed in a split second.

["Don't hurt her ......"]

The ghost's voice was clear in his ears.

Did Isha already know this, that's why she appeared in Calvin's face in that way? Was she reminding her of something, and why did she keep saying don't hurt her......

Countless thoughts flashed through Calvin's mind and then disappeared, and his brain and heart seemed to become very strange organs in his body, and they went crazy on their own, and Calvin couldn't control them.

Calvin believed that if it had been under normal circumstances, the kind-hearted but somewhat overzealous receptionist might have noticed his abnormality, but fortunately or unfortunately, just as Calvin had noticed Madeleine's presence, the lady had discovered her.

"Fucking bitch, it's back again-"

Calvin caught a curse from the lady at the front desk.

"That woman? do you know her?"

Calvin asked subconsciously.

In his sight, Madeleine staggered like a ghost towards the motel's backyard.

"Of course I know her, God knows how much trouble she's got me. She always walked around the pool, saying she was looking for her daughter...... She's going to scare the little bunnies to death!"

Swimming pool?Calvin realized that Madeleine's destination was indeed the swimming pool, and the sound of children playing in the pool wafted from afar.

"I'm sorry boy, I've got to leave, I've got to get that damn madman out before she gets in trouble. ”

The woman at the front desk said hurriedly, and then she shook her huge hips and walked briskly towards Madeleine.

Calvin stood still and watched the intersection of the two women.

Cold sweat ran down his neck and down his back. The feeling of breathlessness struck again, and Calvin was now beginning to hope it could be a nightmare.

"Why is she here...... Oh my God, she's ...... here."

Calvin didn't know if he was talking to Reed or asking himself.

The lady at the front desk had already grabbed Madeleine, and in her comparison Madeleine was as deflated and flat as if she had been pressed by a hydraulic press, and it was obvious that she was trying to struggle, but she was so weak that the lady at the front desk completely suppressed all her movements with only one hand. The sound of a woman's cry wafted in the wind, and the sound was dry and astringent like the sound effects of a horror movie.

"Calm down, Calvin, we'll figure out what's going on. ”

Reed grabbed Calvin tightly, and then he whispered.

Calvin followed his instructions to the rental car with a blank expression. Reid glanced around, and after noticing that there were no idlers waiting next to him, he got up from his wheelchair, and then he forced Calvin into the passenger seat.

Calvin had been a little dazed all the time, and his attention was always on the two women next to the motel.

Even when he got in the car, he kept watching them through the glass. Reid looked at him like him, and started the car - he pulled out of the parking lot and pulled over to the side of the road on a downhill ramp. From this location, Calvin had a clear view of the pool not far away, and the Madeleine next to the pool.

Calvin was actually very worried about what the front desk lady would do to Madeleine—she used a lot of swear words when talking about her. But from such a short distance, Calvin was somewhat surprised to see that the lady gave Madeleine a hug. Calvin didn't know what she had said to Madeleine, but as if she had obeyed, she staggered after the woman and disappeared into the corner.

"As is customary, she would take the woman to a bite to eat, and that direction was the inn kitchen. ”

Reed said suddenly.

Calvin paused for a moment before he realized what he was talking about.

"You know Madeleine?!"

"All I know is a crazy woman here, and Tani hates her for frightening the kids, but I think she should have some sympathy for that woman, and I've heard her talk about a mother who lost her life because she lost her child...... But I didn't expect her to be the mother of the girl you were talking about. ”

Reed said with a wry smile.

And what is very rare is that this time the words spoken by Red Deer hardly contain any lies or conscious deception.

When he was the boring gay tourist, he had a great relationship with the lovely front desk lady, Tani, who happened to be the kind of person who liked to tell everything (she certainly didn't care if anyone listened carefully).

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