AUTHOR'S POV

Zendaya blinked softly and wiped off the tears that rolled down her face, "Yes," she said in a whisper.

"Good, that settles it", Lincoln concluded, ending the chapter of the whole argument there.

"Zen-", Zane tried to reach out for her, but she moved away from him.

"Don't, I hope you are happy, you are never punished," She said and then excused herself, before leaving the dining room.

"Zendaya?", Zane called out to her, but she ignored him and went up to her room.

He sighed and sat back down. He didn't mean for it to come out this way? He just-he did not even know how to...