CHAPTER 44: Meeting Zion Again

-=Martina's Point of View=-

I woke up the following morning still feeling lightheaded, but it didn't take long to remember what happened last night.

I was about to meet with Kian last night, and I wanted to ask him how he managed to disappear the other night without me noticing it. Another thing that I wanted to ask was, even though I wasn't sure if it was sensible to ask about the tales about the dangerous man who lives on the western side of the island, which happened to be where Kian was living.

I was eager to see him last night, but I didn't expect that instead of finding Kian, I would find Zion, who had just returned from the hospital.

When I thought of Zion, I couldn't help but feel a surge of guilt in my chest, followed by self-reproach.

To think that I was so sure that I could face Zion and tell him about my wrongdoing, but when I was facing Zion, I didn't have the courage to tell him at all, and what does that make me?

"Shameless and a coward, that's who I am," I thought to m