Hearing Zion''s words, I felt a sudden wave of anger swelling up. I grabbed him by the cor.


    "Zion, shut up. If you hadn''t tricked me into leaving Carzonia and forced me to stay here, none of this would have happened!"


    So many things I wanted to say swirled in my head, but when I saw the fear in Zion''s eyes, I held back and let him go.


    Forget about it. What was the point? None of that would change anything now.


    I took a deep breath, looked helplessly at my phone, and felt lost.


    "Let''s think it through these next few days. Avoiding it won''t solve anything. We need a n."


    Zion straightened his clothes. He gave me a long, unreadable look, and left.


    I was left alone in this hourly hotel room. Staring at the empty ceiling, I slipped into deep thought.


    Sometimes, life felt so tiring.


    My early years were spent as an orphan, growing up in a welfare home with no family and no friends. There were just books to keep mepany.


    My favorite moment was sitting quietly in ss, watching the teacher teach. It was only during those lessons that everyone seemed to forget I was a child nobody wanted.


    When I grew up, I went to school and made some friends, but none I was close with.


    I was too busy with part-time jobs and too focused on making money. My life revolved around work and studying, with no time or energy for anything else.


    In college, I had a bit more time, but I was still busy. My life only became slightly easier after I met Selena. But even then, she betrayed me.


    I''ve tried to let go, to stop thinking about anything at all. I told myself it didn''t matter who Selena was with. As long as she didn''t push for a divorce, I could keep going.


    In both work and life, sometimes you have to turn a blind eye. There came a time whenpromise became a skill.


    But now, I really couldn''t bring myself to just ept things as they were.


    I didn''t expect that my rtionship with Sylvia would hit such a rough patch, and


    so soon.


    All my life, up to now, Selena was the only person I had been in a rtionship with. Besides the issues with Zion, we had never argued or fought about anything.


    Now, I didn''t know how to fix the conflict with Sylvia. Part of me felt I should apologize, but another part of me insisted I wasn''t in the wrong. I was in a situation I couldn''t control. It wasn''t that I didn''t want to contact her. And she didn''t discuss with me about the transfer at all, not giving a care about how I might feel.


    But if I didn''t apologize, how was I supposed to face Sylvia?


    If this argument continued, how could we possibly sustain this rtionship?


    I sighed. There was no way to solve this. Sometimes, life really was exhausting.


    Forget it. I was going to sleep on it. I would figure it out in the morning.


    When I woke up, the first thing I saw was a message from the front desk reminding me to check out of the room.