I'll Teach You, Marianne.

Anne sat wearing some thick clothes in the hotel restaurant, while enjoying a glass of warm tea with a bowl of crab asparagus soup that she had ordered to warm her body. The restaurant waitress, who already knew that Anne was one of the students who came from England and stayed at the hotel for 4 weeks, looked very friendly when serving her. She even offered Anne some warm milk for free. But Anne politely refused, she already had a glass of hot tea and that was more than enough for her.

While Anne was enjoying asparagus soup, her cell phone suddenly rang, and Linda's name appeared on the screen. Without putting the spoon into the bowl, Anne received the video call from Linda. 

"Yes..."

"Marianne!!!! Where are you?!!" Linda screamed loudly. 

Anne smiled. She then put the spoon that was still in her mouth into the bowl and wiped her lips with a tissue. "I'm at the hotel and currently enjoying a cup of hot tea and this very good crab asparagus soup at the hotel restaurant, why?"

"You are really annoying, Anne. Earlier you said you were in the rain because you wanted to catch up with me, but now you're saying you're at the hotel. So which one is right, Anne?" said Linda angrily. Actually, Linda wasn't really angry. She was only worried about Anne because it was still raining heavily outside with the occasional thunder. As a very close friend, Linda knew that Anne was very afraid of lightning. 

"Yes, I did got soaked in the rain, but now I'm at the hotel. Oh right, where are you now, Linda? You're not outside right? You must be in the room right?" Anne asked Linda worriedly. 

Instead of answering questions from Anne, Linda then changed the front camera capture to the rear camera so that Anne could see where she was. 

"The mall, are you with the others?" asked Anne again. She was worried that Linda couldn't find her way home because she couldn't speak German.

"Yes, I am with the others. We will have lunch at this place while waiting for the rain to stop. After the rain stops, we will take some photos for a while then go home and you better not go anywhere. Watch out if you go without me, Anne" answered Linda threateningly. 

Anne smiled when she heard Linda's words. She looked back at Linda's face warmly. Not long after, Linda ended the call, because the food she had ordered with the other friends had arrived. Anne went back to enjoying the amazingly delicious crab asparagus soup, her cold whole body was much better now. Even the flu that came suddenly earlier had also subsided a little, the sneezing had also disappeared. Hot chamomile tea and asparagus soup were indeed a perfect combination. After finishing her food and drink, Anne then went back up to her room. Even though the flu had subsided, but because her head hurt so much, Anne decided to go to sleep. She seemed to really need a break at the moment, because the hotel where she was currently staying had almost all of the rooms booked by the campus. As a result, at the moment, the situation of the hotel was very quiet. Because all the UAL students were away, Anne's steps could be heard very clearly when she walked down the hallway after getting out of the elevator. Anne, who was unable to endure the pain in her head and decided to immediately enter the room. She felt like a large hand was gripping her head. 

Therefore, she rushed to unlock her room and immediately locked it back from the inside using a double key and just as Anne entered the room, there was a man with dreadlocks running straight to her room. The man had been watching Anne for the past few days, who was in the hotel alone when everyone went out, and this time he intended to launch his action. But his steps were still slow, because Anne had already entered the room and locked the door from the inside, a habit she had been doing for years, where she always locked the door again from the inside when he entered the room. As a result, the man who planned to attack her couldn't carry out his action. In fact, ever since she was at the restaurant, he had been observing Anne's movements. 

"Fuck, I'm not fast enough," muttered the dreadlocked man who wanted to do bad to Anne in annoyance, because the door to Anne's room was locked tightly. 

Finally, the man left the front door of Anne's room for fear of being found out by the hotel staff. He then went down using the elevator and left the hotel. Acting like one of the hotel occupants so as not to be suspected by the hotel staff, the man was a criminal who specialized in undercover hotel residents to drain the rooms of tourists who came. But a few days ago when he saw Anne was alone in the room while all her friends left, his evil intentions changed. He wanted to rape her because he was tempted by the beauty of Anne's face. That was why he had been at the hotel since morning waiting for Anne to be off guard. However, because Anne left, he finally couldn't do anything. Only when lunch time arrived, he came to the hotel restaurant and managed to see Anne who was enjoying her asparagus soup alone. Therefore, he immediately took strong drugs and prepared stimulant drugs to subdue her. But when he was almost successful in performing the action, for some reason, suddenly his shoe lace fell off the stairs and was accidentally stepped on by himself, which caused him to fall and was unable to catch up with Anne, who had already entered her room. 

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< The Clarke Company >

Meanwhile, in a large room in a 30-story building belonging to the Clarke family, a pair of sharp eyes stared at the movement of the dreadlocked man from his laptop screen. His hands clenched tightly in anger when he saw what the dreadlocked man was doing in front of Anne's hotel room. Apparently, after arriving at the office, Alan asked Nicholas to find out about Anne because he felt guilty after leaving Anne in front of the hotel with her sneezing. He also asked Nicholas to hijack the hotel CCTV camera and was quite surprised when he saw a man who looked very suspicious following Anne from the restaurant area until Anne took the elevator. 

"Find out who this man is, Nick, I'm sure he must have bad intentions. You saw the way he ran after Anne who was about to enter her room, didn't you?" Alan said coldly. Every word he said was filled with emphasis and enormous anger. 

"Are you serious, sir?" Nicholas asked in disbelief, because he knew his master was a man who didn't care about any woman. Because of that, he was surprised when he saw him suddenly paying attention to a girl he had just met a few hours ago. 

Alan shifted his gaze from his laptop screen to Nicholas. "Do you think I'm not serious, Nick?"

Nicholas immediately backed away. Seeing the angry look on his master's face, without another word he then rushed out of Alan's room to do the task he just got. Meanwhile, Alan looked back at Anne's bedroom door which was still tightly closed from the outside in one video clip and saw another video when the man with dreadlocks tried to push the door of Anne's room. As a fellow man, Alan was absolutely sure that the man with dreadlocks had bad intentions towards Anne. And seeing that, all of his anger was unstoppable, a feeling he had never felt before. A great feeling of wanting to protect her suddenly emerged from Alan. It was a possessive feeling that he never felt before. For sure, he didn't want the long-haired girl to get hurt, so he went this far. 

"Who are you? Why do you make me always think of you, silly girl?" Alan said softly with his hands still tightly clenched together on the table. 

Continued