CHAPTER 55: Confrontation

"If I tell you, will you really listen to me, Panying?" I asked her with a heavy heart and nervousness. "Will you believe me? Because ever since I returned here, all I've heard from you is judgment and insults towards my entire being. You raised your hand against me, even without hearing my side. So why now, Panying?"

"I'm sorry, Serena, but I can't blame you." Her eyes immediately turned red. "Sir Heskel almost killed himself, and you just came back."

"W-What?"

"You don't know how painful it was for me to see him like that—going crazy searching for you. He kept asking me if you had come back, where you were, and how you were doing. What could I answer him? I don't know why you ran away. I don't know why you went with another man. Suddenly, when I came back one day, I found out that you were gone."

A lump formed in my throat. I couldn't imagine the impact of my departure from the mansion on Ezekiel.

I couldn't see him sad, crying, or going crazy because of my leaving. In my mind's ima