The usually agile red-haired girl was silent as she listened to Gallen's arrogant tone, and she wanted to open her mouth to refute, to rebel against the fate imposed on her by others.

But the words of resistance were stuck in the girl's throat and could not be spit out, and Anya hesitated, frightened.

She only thinks about staying away from her family and everything she knows to escape, and when she faces her fate again, she can only be afraid and tremble like when she was a child, and she can't do anything.

Anya bit her lip tightly, leaving deep tooth marks that were about to ooze blood, and hugged herself tightly to try to prevent her body from shaking uncontrollably.

She's angry, angry at her own incompetence, and she's brave enough to face a monster with sharp teeth when she takes risks.

But when facing an annoying rich son, he found that he was so weak.

Not only is it jealous of the unwieldy authority of the Orsini family, but a word of offense can cause immeasurable consequences for one's own family,

More often than not, Gallon's bastard hurt the girl deeply with a few words of reality, and the pain far exceeded all the physical suffering, like a red-hot soldering iron pressed on his heart.

The severe pain can't get rid of, and Anya doesn't want to let this pain follow her for the rest of her life.

"What's wrong? Dear Mrs. Orsini? ”

Anya's silence made Gallen even more rampant, as if he was unwilling to let go of the rare toy easily.

"Why don't you speak? Is it that the thought of being a duchess in the future has begun to secretly rejoice? Don't worry, I know my eldest brother very well, he loves women very much! As long as you serve him comfortably, he won't hit you easily. ”

Looking at Gallen's worsening face, Sandino didn't even know the reason, but as a bystander, he gradually couldn't bear to continue to talk nonsense.

When I looked at Anya's face, I saw that the girl who was still "nervous" just now was no different from the ordinary beautiful girl of the same age, her eyes became foggy in helplessness, and she lost the courage to take the risk just now.

"Anja...... Are you okay......" As soon as he asked this sentence, Sandino regretted it, where did the girl still seem to be fine, as if she had been evoked the shadow of the most fearful of childhood.

The girl's body was visibly trembling, and what she was afraid of was definitely not the gallon itself, but something hidden behind the other party's words.

Gallen is unwilling to let Anya go and continues to have fun.

"Oh yes, dear, my eldest brother is old after all, if you dislike him in the future, I don't mind......"

Without waiting for him to finish his words, Sandino, who couldn't bear it, didn't care about what happened and stood up directly, slightly spreading his arms to protect Anya behind him.

"Plus, Mr. Gallen! That's pretty much enough! Can't you see that Miss Anya is already very sad! ”

Faced with the Duke's child, Sandino still lacked the confidence to speak, and he had to hold on to his courage to interrupt the foul language that the other party was about to utter casually in a very hard tone as much as possible.

Anya looked at Sandino's back, her trembling expression eased slightly, and she was surprised that the boy stood up for herself, but she didn't know that Sandino was snorting nervously at this time, her eyes were wandering, and she was even more scared than Anya in her heart.

Sandino knew that he didn't have great intelligence, that his luck was always bad, that he was clumsy and often couldn't speak, but he still wanted to believe his eyes, and he saw the sadness on Anya's face, and felt how desperate the girl was for help at this time.

And as he said before, a true gentleman should protect a weak lady, even if it is a duke's heir...... Even if it's Gallon, a ruthless little bastard......

Gallen's eyes went from surprise to coldness as he watched him.

"You... How dare you interrupt me? Gallen smiled contemptuously, and in those eyes he didn't see Sandino as a dignified person at all.

The child of a little stinky baron can easily be crushed to death with his little finger even if the gallon does not have a knighthood in the future.

He thought, and the more he thought about it, the more ridiculous he felt.

"You used to follow that Cesare's ass every day, and I could still give the Count family a face...... Now Cesare is not sure whether he is alive or dead, and you dare to be an eyesore in front of me? ”

Sandino swallowed several mouthfuls of saliva in quick succession, straightening up his head and trying to make his not-so-tall look a little more imposing.

"We just happened to be passing by and didn't bother you! We're going to go now, please...... Please let us go! He struggled to make his eyes firmly meet the gallon's gaze, controlling the volume, expressing his unyielding attitude and avoiding being heard by outsiders.

Still, it was too hard to bluff Gallen, and Sandino's bravery only became more ridiculous to Gallen.

"Want to go? It's time for you to go, and you'll have to hurry up. ”

Gallen stood firm, straightened his collar a few more times, and let out a few throat-clearing "cough-cough" sounds before taking a deep breath.

"Someone! There are students in front of the finance room who are skipping bed! ”

He roared loudly, echoing through the hallways of the school, the hateful voice of the bastard in the distance through the narrow corridor, up and down the floors. Gallen continued to shout, as if determined to get Sandino and Anya in trouble.

Within a moment, hurried footsteps could be heard in response to gallons' shouts in the auditorium, and the walls and floors of the hallway were like echoing boards to make the gradually cluttered sounds clearer.

"You!" Sandino was so anxious that he suddenly raised his hand and pointed at Gallon, looking at the underbeaten face, and the curse words were stuck in his mouth and he didn't dare to really say it.

When she was stunned and at a loss, Anya grabbed Sandino's sleeve. "It's time to run." The girl adjusted her mood, screamed crisply, and turned around with the boy to run back.

The sound of gallon's bad laughter in his ears grew farther and farther away, and Sandino's mind went blank in a hurry, and he ran down the stairs and through the corridor in the same way he came, and he didn't have time to take a light step, and his legs swung back and forth much faster than he had come.

The sound of footsteps chasing around was particularly powerful, as if some great truth was being proclaimed in the hall full of learning. The reverberations changed in intensity and volume, sometimes crisp, sometimes deep, and then all disappeared in an instant.

Just as the boy and girl were about to go back to the first floor, back to the window where they came in.

A group of school nuns had blocked the staircase, and Anya immediately pulled Sandino to stop and wanted to run again.

As soon as I turned around, I saw more lights blocking the retreat, patrolling security guards and teachers working at night blocking the only retreat, and the people on both sides were furious, blocking all the routes tightly, even the birds should not try to escape.

"Oh...... Now, it's too bad. ”

Anya watched back and forth, and finally shrugged her shoulders and smiled embarrassedly at Sandino, who was about to cry in fright.

An older nun stood up with an oil lamp, the light mercilessly illuminated the faces of the two children, and also took special "care" of Anya's eyes, so that the girl raised her hand to cover her eyes.

The old nun snorted.

Anya Laurien...... I'm not surprised. ”