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For a brief moment, I believed him, and then I shook my head. No, I would go wherever Carmine wanted, and there would be a jeering crowd waiting for me. I’d been humiliated enough, and not even my parents spoke to me anymore.
“Listen, you may assume this is a game, but it’s not. My belief cost me my position, career, respect, dignity, and my friends and parents. Let’s not mention that my name is a laughingstock, and my reputation is shredded. Please, just tell whoever is waiting to further humiliate me you didn’t find me, okay?
“I’m only monitoring the activity. Despite the humiliation, I still file my reports. The fact nobody reads them or is alarmed at the increase of activity worries me,” I said, chewing a nail.
“Honey, I’m not with anyone looking to make an idiot of you. Please look me up online. Carmine Michaelson,” he urged.
With a huff, I yanked my phone out of my pocket and typed his name in. My eyebrows shot into my hair line when images of Carmine just wearing boxers appeared.
“Not those!” Carmine sighed.
I looked at them and him; yup, the faces matched. And boy, did he have a rocking body.
“Look up the Cub’s roster.”
Out of sheer perverseness, I flicked through a few more of the modelling pictures before doing as he asked. Sure enough, Carmine came up on them. Did that mean he was genuine?
Unsure, I stared into Carmine’s gentle eyes. Damn, three years alone with no people contact had clearly done damage.The food delivery driver once a fortnight was clearly not enough interaction with people.
“Carmine, I’ll tell you now, if this is a trap, a way for everybody to laugh at me, fuck you and shame on you,” I said.
“Please, trust me,” Carmine almost begged, and I snorted. Yeah, I trusted nobody nowadays.
“Let me finish packing up.”
“Fine, I’ll call Prez,” Carmine replied.
He moved aside, but not too far.
“Hey. You’re not going to guess what I just discovered… Funny, Dad. No, I found the person who’s been leaving that equipment everywhere… Yes, and she is a volcanologist.”
“What the fuck?” the president’s reply was loud and clear.
Interested despite myself, I cocked my head.
“Exactly.”
“EROS claims they had no one up here. Why lie?”
“Don’t think they did. The girl said she’s been fired for some hypothesis she put forward, and she is now working to prove it’s true. Want me to bring her to Rage?”
“If she has knowledge about volcanoes and lava, yes. Klutz phoned. Aurora hit the floor hard today when a vision took her over. We’re looking at days, according to her,” the guy replied.
“Shit. Is Aurora okay?” Carmine asked.
“Yeah, Klutz caught her before she smashed her head. Bring your person to Rage, son; we need to talk to her.”
“We’ll be there within the hour,” Carmine responded, gazing at me as I listened in unashamed.
Protecting myself was something I really wouldn’t apologise for. I’d every right to understand what I was getting myself into. The guy speaking appeared to be genuine, but who knew? I wouldn’t risk my safety.
I didn’t believe in psychic visions, but Carmine had triggered my curiosity. Then again, maybe I was being harsh. Look athow the GS had treated me and my hypothesis. As I stated, just because something hadn’t happened or been proven true didn’t mean it couldn’t happen now!
I should be less judgmental and more open-minded. Maybe she had noticed something similar to me and used visions to explain it.
“Will you come?” Carmine asked, jogging me from my thoughts.
“Huh?”
