Chapter 98. After the Escape. Part 1

Adam walked down the corridor, sat down on a chair near the room where Anna was, and put his hands over his face, knowing that his men were looking at him disapprovingly.

   He couldn't change what he had just done, but he felt like it. Not even the richest of men could undo what he had done. Anna didn't deserve to be treated like that. He understood that she was still young, and that she thought differently from him, and couldn't yet understand certain things about the life she led. He needed to make deals. He wasn't indifferent to her feelings. Quite the opposite. He reciprocated them. For the first time, his heart surrendered to the charms of a woman. He believed it was a distraction on his part. She arrived little by little and won everyone over, including him. But what irritated him was Sarah's insinuation, as they were leaving for the hospital, that the girl wanted to die. That she had thrown herself down the stairs. And he remembered those words with hatred.