Whispers Of Betrayal (Anastasia and Alastor)

Chapter 55

“Anastasia, Anastasia.

“Wake

1. it’s time to eat something, or your stomach won’t hold up.”

When Anastasia woke up, it was already the next day’s afternoon.

Jason was sitting by the bedside, looking serious.

“Awake?” Jason got up and poured Anastasia a cup of warm water. “Rinse your mouth, and don’t move around.”

Anastasia moved slightly and felt a sharp pain in her chest.

“I called the police.” Jason’s face did not look good, and there was a wound on the corner of his mouth.

Clearly, he had gotten into a fight with someone.

“So many years have passed, and you’re still so impulsive. Anastasia looked at the injury on Jason’s face and spoke hoarsely. “Fighting comes with consequences. Whether you win and end up at the police station or lose and end up in the hospital, it’s never pleasant.”

“So, you lost the fight?” Jason’s voice was low as he held the water cup to Anastasia’s lips for her to drink and rinse her

mouth.

was then that Anastasia noticed that her right forearm and shoulder were tightly bandaged.

your right arm has a fracture,” Jason said in a deep voice.

I fell by myself,” Anastasia avoided

on her own.

will only turn the pain you suffer into a joke.” Jason’s

abuser? Did he misunderstand Alastor as an abuser?”

police checked Alastor’s time of leaving the house and the time you got injured. You can demand

myself. Did you really call the police?” Anastasia looked at Jason in shock, trying to sit

was angry. “He

I’m telling you, I fell by myself!” Anastasia gritted her teeth, enduring the pain as she sat up and reached for her

Anastasia, who was

state, and the doctor told Jason that if he had not brought her to the hospital in time, she could have had heart failure and died.

himself. “She caused multiple fractures to herself? Are bones that fragile? Such an implausible excuse could

changed over the years.” Jason

her heart, turned her

young boy had grown into an adult, but he could no

stood by the window, backlit,

do you think you are to me? Mind your own

his fingers slowly

if it wasn’t for your cat going crazy, disturbing the

silent for a long time before speaking again. Til

did not say anything, but the disappointment in his eyes grew heavier.

Anastasia had changed in a

ago, Anastasia, though quiet and