Chapter 53: It’s Time to Leave
The villagers kept their eyes fixed on the direction Benjamin and the others were leaving. When they saw them actually boarding the boat and leaving, they finally breathed a sigh of relief.

As he watched them leave, the Chief remained skeptical.

A villager’s voice hushed, as if afraid that someone might be eavesdropping, “Chief, what do you think we should do next? Will these people come back and cause trouble?”

Another villager chimed in, saying, “I can’t help but think that their departure this time is too calm. Is it possible that they have some malicious intentions and are deliberately disguising them?”

“If their actions end up affecting Miss Martinez, we would all feel guilty as well.”

“Miss Martinez has helped us so much all these days. Without her, my child wouldn’t even understand the basic questions.”

“Miss Martinez has done so many things for us. We can’t simply sit and watch her get into trouble. We can’t just be idle and useless, okay?”

Everyone chimed in, agreeing, “Absolutely. But I think those people have already gone.

far. Let’s call Miss Martinez out later so that we don’t scare her again!”

“That cellar is dark and damp. If it weren’t for the circumstances, I wouldn’t want Miss Martinez to go near that place at all.”

Martina didn’t know how long she had been waiting. Maybe it was an hour, two hours, or three?

She waited until her mind started to feel drowsy.

The cellar was stuffy, and if someone stayed there for a long time, it could cause discomfort in the body.

Martina felt her consciousness becoming increasingly blurry, but fortunately, just when she was about to give in, she heard voices calling from above the cellar. “Miss Martinez… Miss Martinez, are you okay?”

responded,

the help of the villagers, she managed to crawl out of

soon as Martina got from the cellar, she took big, gasping breaths. Breathing in the relatively fresh air

gaze turned towards the shore, and this time, there was no way she could remain calm-Benjamin

could barely stand, and immediately she asked the

Martina’s intention, yet he found himself unable to restrain her departure, despite his

people seemed extremely dangerous, and no one knew what

escape, but she might not be so lucky next

will be a ship approaching the shore in about an hour. If you want

are searching for you will give up so easily. You should change your

Chief

to Candy’s home and borrowed a set of clothes from Candy’s mother. It

intentionally applied a makeup

her breath. She took

made Martina feel any attachment to Benjamin. On the contrary,

she had truly made up her mind not to love someone who was hard to love, which led

failed to bring Martina joy and a

mirror and thought, only her biological parents would recognize

was her

planned to take a desperate gamble this time. Maybe she could evade from

for her outside for such a long time, Benjamin would never expect her to return to LA where she used

as the time came, Martina swiftly boarded a ship, but this time

to the extended period spent in the cellar,

discomfort heightened, and the urge to vomit grew stronger. She could only huddle in a corner of the ship, crouching there in a sorry state, finding

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