“It was...my mother was the one who put it there.”

Surprise flashed across Kiara’s face as her hand fell to her side. She stepped back, issuing to him the space she had taken. “Y-Your mother? How...?”

“It’s nothing...” Zique erased the step she took away from him. “Why did you move? Why did you stop?”

“I thought that...I-I’m sorry.”

“You ask if it was painful and when I told you that it was, you just step away without trying to make it better?”

“B-But it’s already healed.” His proximity was mes