Zara walked back to her seat, already adapting to the eyes that were not leaving her body.
Natalie immediately came to meet her with a worried look.
"Hey, are you okay? What in the world happened?"
Zara sighed as she kept staring at Nate, not knowing where to start telling her everything.
"Why won't you say anything?" Nate called her attention. "You don't look too well; have you been sick?"
"Nate. I was hospitalized, and she decided to start from there.
Nate gasped in shock. "What? Why?"
"Well.... Some gangsters kidnapped me, telling me to pay the debts of my mother, and while I was trying to escape, I happened to bump into Joel's car, and I..."
"Hold on," Nate interrupted. "Joel, as in our boss?"
"Yes," Zara replied with a nod.
Nate heaved a sigh of relief. "So that explains wh
