Blinking once, then again, Kira saw that the place where Lucinda had been standing all along was now empty.

She turned around in the room, wondering if Lucinda was still in the building, eyes searching, but the whole place was quiet with no sign of her.

"Seriously?" Kira said, raising her brows while staring at the empty space in disbelief. "How rude."

"That is very rude," she muttered again to herself as she left the building, the way Lucinda had just left her standing there, still shocking ...