54 - Lost Worry

Her hand pulled me in an obvious way like she was deliberately trying to make my body lose balance. Luckily, I didn't fall down and quickly looked for a handle. Because what Anastasia was going to do to me after this was worse than I could have ever expected.

"The servants contacted me after Arthur was injured and fell into a coma," she said.

Her breathing was ragged with the overwhelming emotion she was trying to suppress. "They said it was you who had stabbed him. After taking away all the happiness I had, you now want to take Arthur out of my life!?"

/slap!/

Her hand came up and slapped me hard across the face. I was used to getting slapped when we were at the orphanage. But this was the first time she slapped me with sobs.

It was also the first time I witnessed her crying so sadly. No doubt the tears that ran down her cheeks made my emotions dissolve. Regardless of me not being the actual perpetrator of arthur's stabbing.

"Tell me, what do you want from us!?" she screamed. More pr