“Hot date with my laptop analysing aerodynamic data.” She laughs.
“I am so looking forward to checking into the hotel and checking out until the morning!” I exclaim.
“I’m sure Rayna info dumped you today.”
“Yeah, it’s okay. I’m used to the high-pace environment with Azure Illume, but this is going to be on a different level, which is exactly what I wanted,” I reply.
“You’ll get into the swing of it in no time,” Sophia offers with a smile.
Piling out of the shuttle bus, I wheel my luggage up to the front counter to check in.
“I’m sorry, we don’t have a record of your reservation,” the front desk clerk says softly.
Fucking great.I pullout my phone and pull up the reservation confirmation Rayna forwarded to me. Reciting my confirmation number, the clerk checks and says there are no records.
About to hit Rayna’s number from my phone, I see her dark brown hair heading towards the hotel’s restaurant.
“One moment, let me get the boss.” I raise a finger at the clerk and run over to Rayna.
“Rayna! I’m so sorry, but the front desk doesn’t have my room reservation. I gave her the confirmation number you sent through, but it didn’t match for them.”
Rayna is instantly concerned. “Let’s sort this out.” She heads straight to the front desk, tapping furiously on her phone with me straggling behind her, steering this damn luggage around the slick hotel foyer floor.
The hotel contains a large amount of the teams at the moment, so all rooms are occupied. There’s nothing reception can do. Rayna is on her phone, working on alternatives when Riley comes through the foyer doors with some other people in similar colour clothes to him, assuming they're part of his team. He smiles widely at me.
“Hello again! How was your first day?” he asks as he reaches me.
“It was good, but could have ended better. The hotel must have missed my booking confirmation,” I reply.
Rayna lifts her face up from her phone. “I’m checking through the team’s rooms to see if anyone has a double room you can share with. Sophia and Javi might.” Her hand is raised in a flurry along with a lifted eyebrow.
That might be a little awkward!
An older man approaches Riley’s side, smiling at me and Rayna.
“Koby! Any chance you have any spare rooms amongst your team no one has checked in as yet?” Rayna directs to the older man, Koby. He pulls out his phone to check.
Riley offers, “I got a two-bedroom room. My parents were staying with me for a few days before they went home, if you wanted to take the other room? No one is staying there now.”
“Are you sure?” I ask, wary. How is someone so nice to someone they just met?
“Yeah, it’s just sitting there. We can get house-keeping to change the sheets. Makes sense, then you aren’t couch surfing,” Riley replies.
“Sure, that sounds good. Thank you!” I manage. “Guess I'm sorted, Rayna.”
Rayna nods, then turns to the clerk. “Can we please get housekeeping to room…” She looks over at Riley.
“Room 845,” Riley provides.
“Absolutely,” the clerk replies, then gets straight on the phone.
“Thanks, Riley,” Rayna offers. “Are you all good, Mabel? Need anything else?” She places a hand on my shoulder.
“I’m okay. Thanks, Rayna,” I reply. She smiles and heads back to the restaurant with Koby following as they talk between themselves.
The clerk passes me a room key and informs that housekeeping will be up to my room straight away.
Riley and I head up to the room on the 8th floor, and all I want to do is hit the shower after such a horrendous day. But instead I ask, “Koby is in your team?”
