Chapter 738

Chapter 738

Anya was completely shocked because Lucas had never spoken so harshly to her before.

“But I really, really love him… You of all people should know that…”

Lucas knitted his brows together. “It takes two to make a relationship work. Yours is a one- sided love.

If the other party doesn’t love you, then it doesn’t matter what you do, he still won’t love you. Why don’t

you let him go, Anya? Time will heal all wounds and you’ll definitely come out better for it.”

Anya’s eyes immediately reddened as tears spilled out of her eyes. “Lucas, what’s the matter with you?

Did Corinne say something to you? Why does it feel like you have completely become another person?

Don’t you love me anymore?”

No matter how annoyed Lucas was with Anya, there was one thing he could not stand to see and that

was her crying. She was still his baby sister after all. ‘Maybe I was a little too harsh on her…‘ he

thought.

Lucas patted Anya on the shoulder in a bid to comfort her, “Come now, don’t cry. I only want what’s

good for you, Anya. Do you know how much it hurts me to see you losing yourself over Jeremy?”

Anya rubbed her tear–stained face against Lucas‘ arm. “But I really, really love him! I can’t help

myself…”

Lucas put his hand to his forehead to quell the throbbing headache that was starting to show itself. ‘The

gods must be playing a joke on me! Why did both of my sisters have to fall for the same man? Why do I

have to be caught in the middle?‘

After sending Anya, who was tired out by all the crying, home, Lucas went straight to his office. Now

that there were only the two of them, Edmund deigned to ask, “Mister Lucas, how did the talk with Miss

Corinne go? Did she accept you as her brother?”

Lucas threw his head back and pinched the space between his brows. “What do you think?” After a few

seconds of silence, Edmund said comfortingly, “Miss Corinne went through a lot when she was growing

up in the countryside which gave way to her strong independent character so it’s perfectly

understandable if she needs some time to process the sudden news.”

Lucas closed his tired eyes and chuckled self–deprecatingly. “No, that’s not it. She knew I was her

brother a long time ago.”

“She knew before you told her?” Edmund asked with a frown.

“Yeah,” replied Lucas with a heavy sigh. “She knew from the very beginning and yet she didn’t say

anything in all the times I treated her harshly. She only sees me as a stranger so… knowing all this, do

you think she’ll ever come to accept me as her brother?”

“Well… if you put it that way, it would be kinda hard for that to happen. But why didn’t she say anything

if she knew? Does she not want to be welcomed back to the family and to know what it feels like to be

loved by the people who shared the same blood as her?”

“Maybe that just goes to show how much she hates me…” Lucas curled his lips into a self- mocking

smile.

Edmund had witnessed for himself the lengths Lucas would go to to protect Anya from

Corinne and to be honest, he did think Lucas went overboard a little. Thus, he sighed heavily and said,

“Have patience, Mister Lucas. I’m sure Miss Corinne would slowly come to accept you eventually.”

Lucas remained silent because he knew the chances of that happening were very, very slim. ‘ Luna

isn’t doing this because she’s mad at me… She’s doing this because she doesn’t need me at all! She

doesn’t care to have a rich and powerful brother or father… No, if she did, she would have come

running to tell us she’s Luna the first second she found out who she really is. And yet here I am…

always thinking she’s a scheming social climber who’s h*llbent of marrying a rich guy…‘