CHAPTER 58: Does He Know?

-=Martina's Point of View=-

The word "shock" seems inadequate to express how I felt during those hours, especially as I had not expected to see her now. In fact, I expected her to remain gone for weeks or perhaps months before she returned to the castle.

I have mixed emotions while looking at her stoic face. I missed her so badly that I wanted to talk to her, and I felt like an hour was not enough for us to catch up at the same time. I was scared because if I still hadn't confessed to Zion about my infidelity, she would probably think that I was still not taking my issue seriously.

When she learned that I was still living here, she would already guess that my secret still remained a secret, which was probably why she was distant and cold to me.

I had a lot of things I wanted to tell her, but honestly, I didn't know where to begin or how to begin. We were still not okay, obviously, so how could I talk to her without stepping out of line?

I was still contemplating how to talk to her whe