187 Anna Wesley 2 (1/2)

”After that…..our life became hell…”

Max frowned after hearing her. Something seemed wrong here. He could understand this Will guy's family looking down on Anna and her family.

But, Will's brother was beaten by Anna's father and uncle? Was that even possible? A Young man from a renowned family most probably of mages visited without a single guard and got his ass kicked, by a couple of ordinary people.

Max couldn't help but feel it a little hard to believe. He needed to confirm it with someone.

Max suddenly turned his head towards the door and spoke, ” Come in. How long do you plan on staying there?”

Anna raised her and saw Max looking towards the door. A moment later, the door opened with a creak and Lear walked in with a forced smile on his face.

”Ah...I came mid way...umn...I didn't know what to do…”

”So you decided to eavesdrop on us?” Max said and Lear's face twitched.

”Well, I don't mind if she is fine with it….” Max said as he looked at Anna.

Anna nodded. They had saved her life. She didn't mind telling her story to them.

”So how much did you hear?” Max asked even though he clearly knew when he came.

”Well from the part where she started falling in love…” Lear said as he fell on the seat beside Max.

Silence one again enveloped the room and Anna continued.

”We started facing losses in our business. At first we thought it was just market issues. But after a while, we realized that it wasn't. Our competitors seemed to have gone crazy. They were selling products at a huge loss. We thought that they couldn't maintain the shop like that and would eventually run out of business. But they didn't.”

”We realised that something was wrong. My mom was the first one to relate it to the incident with Will's brother which occurred a while ago. I never mentioned the incident to Will because of the fear of deteriorating his family relations. I could feel that he had some family problems as he never even once talked about his family.”

”My mother asked me to talk it out with Will. Even though I didn't want to, things had gone too far to ignore. I couldn't let my family suffer because of my willfulness.”

”The next day, I was returning from Academy and I met him again, Will's brother. He seemed to be alone. But I could feel several gazes on me. It was just a feeling but too real.”

”I still remember the words he whispered as he passed by me, ' I left a present for you…' ”

”When I returned, my shop was smashed. My uncle was beaten up. My mom was all scared. My father was furious when he returned home. But he couldn't do anything.”

”Only my Mom and I knew why it happened. That day, my Mom made it very clear to me. She said that I needed to end everything with Will.”

Max and Lear looked at each other and both of them shook their heads. They couldn't believe that this girl could lie. If one observed her closely, he could clearly make out her feelings. This was a bit hard to believe.

Max and Lear looked at Anna weeping and felt helpless. They clearly had no idea how to console someone.