It was like passing a hot potato.
Celina hid her face in her palms. Her voice sounded dead and rough, as if she was holding back tears. "Xia… Xia, Mister Kraust had helped us so much, and you are betraying him like that? I… I never thought that you would do something like this. I never thought I won't notice… I should've noticed, should've convinced you…"
Her shoulders hunched; her whole figure looked forlorn and broken, as if she lost something important that kept her together. Eve had remembered seeing Celina like that only once before, when they were stuck in a cell on Chainsaws Base. Just like then, Celina looked like she had lost all hope. Something in Eve's guts clenched at the sight of it.
