
While it was ....
Evan takes Hanna to a special room that resembles a bedroom, which is on the top floor of the restaurant building and its cafe. After that, Hanna looked very depressed. An unexpected encounter with a former boss he never expected.
Evan sat Hanna on the edge of the bed. Helps remove the fur jacket attached to his body and hangs on a stainless pole that is on the side of the bed. Then pour a glass of water and give it to Hanna. Evan can see Hanna's still trembling hand holding the glass, so she helps hold it.
Hanna took a deep breath after gulping down some water. Evan took back the glass and put it on the table.
"You feel better?"
Hanna replied with a nod of her head, then looked at Evan who was now crouching before her.
"Are you going to believe what that woman said about me?" ask him with a glare.
"Why should I believe?" Evan clasped his wife's fingers, smiling warmly and lovingly. "Even if the whole world says it, I'll just believe you."
"You saw for yourself, right. That's how people have behaved to me all this time. They feel they have the right to insult me. Even thinking of me as an unrighteous woman and wherever I go, they look at me like a dangerous disease."
This time Hanna's crying was unstoppable again. Make Evan re-capture it tightly. Strengthen his wife through hugs and kisses.
"I'm sorry." Only that sentence Evan kept whispering in Hanna's ear as a form of guilt. Though accidentally, it was she who felt responsible for the humiliation Hanna had received during these seven years.
"I hate them."
Evan tightened his embrace. Every sob of Hanna's sobs made her chest even tighter. If he could, he would punish anyone who used to insult his wife.
He took off a hug, kissed the back of Hanna's hand. "Darling ... Will you tell me what really happened between you, Aysel and that guy named Xavier?"
Hanna's eyeballs were again flooded by the clear liquid. He hesitated to tell the truth.
"You won't believe me even if I tell you the truth."
"I have no reason to doubt you." Evan's stalling hand stroked both sides of his wife's face. "I just need to find out why that woman is accusing you of being a no-no."
Suddenly Hanna's chest felt tight. Painful past events re-shadowed in his memory, forcing his eyes to brook a river.
"Don't be afraid, tell me everything."
Hanna nodded, then took a deep breath.
"That day Star was in an accident, I ran her to the hospital. He was unconscious again. I'm so scared of losing her."
"The doctor said his leg had to be operated on. I don't have the money to pay the cost. No one wants to help me. That day I wanted to borrow money from Miss Aysel but she refused to give it. Her husband, Mr. Xavier, called me and said he would lend me money. That night I came to him .. but it turned out that Mr. Xavier had other intentions. He even wanted to harass me. He said he'd give me the money I needed to finance Star if I wanted to serve him."
"I rebelled and tried to escape. At that time Miss Aysel came and thought I wanted to seduce her husband. She also accused me of receiving some money from her husband. Because of the incident that night, they got divorced. Miss Aysel thinks I owe her and forces me to keep working for her. He's gonna cut my pay 50 percent every month to pay the debt. Otherwise, he threatened to report me to the police and imprison me."
"Then what about that guy named Xavier?"
"He dodged. He accused me of seducing him first. Though he was the one who asked me to come and offer a loan."
"You didn't tell Aysel? Why don't you defend yourself?"
"I've said it, even I swear on my children but he doesn't believe it. He called me a prostitute*ur."
Evan closed his eyes. The anger burned him even more. He can't take it anymore.
"I finally chose silence because no matter what I said, no one would believe me. I will remain the guilty party. Besides, if I'm arrested who will guard Sky and Star. They have no one but me."
Evan shed tears. Imagine the hard life Hanna lived with her two children. He pulled Hanna into his arms.
"I'm sorry. You've been living a very hard life all this time and it's all because of my fault."
Evan wiped away the tears that ran down his wife's cheeks. Smell his forehead over and over again.
"Patience. I'll sort this out as soon as possible."
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"You called me?" asked Osman shortly after entering the room.
Evan seemed to be sitting in a chair. While Hanna fell asleep behind a partition that became the room divider.
"Yes Osman. I have an important assignment for you."
"What task, sir?" asked Osman who seemed always ready to do whatever his master ordered.
"I want you to find a man named Xavier and bring him before me! Find him even if you have to go to the end of the world to look for him!"
Seeing the anger held in his master's face, Osman could already guess what Evan would do to Aysel's ex-husband.
"Good, Sir."
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