Chapter 18

Lyra

I ended up calling Adrian's right-hand man myself after I remembered that he had saved his number on my phone the other day.

Those robots outside were unmoving.

"What is it?" He asked when he picked up the call.

"That is no way to greet someone you locked up inside a house."

I could hear him sigh through the line, "What is it, Lyra?"

"I need to go out or I'll lose my mind, so tell these men to let me out or put me on the phone with my dad."

He definitely wouldn't agree with this after hearing me out.

"To tell him what? That you went clubbing and almost put yourself in danger?"

"I was perfectly fine."

"So you think, but you were not; trust me. Just sit tight and wait for your transfer process to be over; you'll soon be out and going to school."

I sighed and prepared myself to reply when I suddenly heard a beep indicating that he had cut the call.

"What?!" I scoffed, dialing his number again, and he picked up.

"What is it?"

"You don't just cut off a lady like that."

He sighed once