Chapter 186 - Anna Wesley(2)
"After that…..our life beca hell…"
Max frowned after hearing her. Sothing seed 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 soone.
Max suddenly turned his head towards the door and spoke, " Co in. How long do you plan on staying there?"
Anna raised her and saw Max looking towards the door. A mont later, the door opened with a creak and Lear walked in with a forced smile on his face.
"Ah...I ca 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 ca.
"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 seed 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 sothing 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 ntioned the incident to Will because of the fear of deteriorating his family relations. I could feel that he had so family problems as he never even once talked about his family."
"My mother asked 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 t him again, Will's brother. He seed to be alone. But I could feel several gazes on . It was just a feeling but too real."
"I still rember the words he whispered as he passed by , ' 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 ho. But he couldn't do anything."
"Only my Mom and I knew why it happened. That day, my Mom made it very clear to . She said that I needed to end everything with Will."
"And so….I did. I made it very clear to Will that we couldn't be together. I lied to him. I told him that I didn't love him anymore. I told him that I had enough of him."
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 soone.
"How did you end up in that place?" Lear asked and Max glared at him.
'Bro! Look at the situation, did you really have to say that now..' Max's eyes seed to be speaking to Lear and he didn't have any answers.
Anna didn't seem to mind Lear's word much though. She continued, " I thought that everything would be over after that. But it didn't. The situation deteriorated."
"We soon ran out of business. Living in the Ocien City beca too difficult for us. My mom persuaded my father and uncle to move out of the city. We planned to move to a small village near Nivera."
"But a day before our departure, I t him again on my way back ho. He already knew that we were moving out."
"He was always keeping his eyes on us. I couldn't understand what he wanted. I even left Will to end my family's suffering yet that person still didn't seem to be satisfied."
"I couldn't take it anymore. I knew that it wouldn't end here. I didn't want to let my family suffer anymore. So, I ended up asking what he wanted…."
"He said in very simple words, 'Just do what I say and I would let your family live in peace.' His words didn't have any backing yet I didn't have any other option."
"I left my family at his order and was sold as a slave into a brothel in Ocean city."
"I knew what kind of hell it was. So on the very first day of work, I….burned my face."
Lear's face twitched and even Max had difficulty maintaining the expression on his face.
"Who would want an ugly person like at that place? And it worked. But, the owner wasn't happy with . I was beaten and almost worked to death because of it. Yet, I felt it was bliss. As long as no one suffered because of , I was willing to do it."
"But sadly, that person returned once again. I didn't know what I seed to have done but he was bent on making my life hell. After knowing what I had done, he was enraged and lashed out at . I thought that he would kill . But, in the end, he didn't. He wanted to keep alive for so reason."
"He warned that he would kill my family if I tried to burn my face again. He sent so people by my side. For treatnt and for surveillance."
"The rest is simple….the brothel wouldn't have wanted a liability like . They put into the auction. But who would buy ? Trapped in a cage, I spent more than 6 months, as they continued to treat . I couldn't even commit suicide. Then a miracle occurred one day, my skin tuned fair white. The burn mark on my face had vanished as well and I felt that the world I lived in had changed."
"I couldn't understand what happened but everything did when I t that old man." Anna's eyes t Max and he understood.
Like Max whose hearing was enhanced, Anna's ability must have been related to her skin.
"Who?" Lear asked.
"Shut up and let her continue…" Max said, shutting Lear's mouth.
"I had turned more beautiful than before. The face I tried to destroy had turned even more beautiful. I knew what it ant."
"It was then that I was allocated a slot at the biggest auction this year in Ishtar before being finally sold off. I thought that this was the end, but I ended up being rescued by you guys." Anna said as a smile appeared on her face.
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