Chapter 80 – Hunter becomes prey 1
Lester Aprice had met Anne Petrova in a remote mountain. Lester, Anne along with a group of other people had gone there for social work.
While most of the people like Lester had gone there for ulterior motives like higher pay, publicity, adding a charity in their resume, Anne had gone there out of compassion.
Anne was a Petrova and wanted to draw everyone’s attention to those remote mountain villages which lacked basic health care, and education.
She pretended to be a normal social worker and organized a four months-long event which was quite a hype in P city.Content rights by NôvelDr//ama.Org.
Hence there was a large group of about 35 people.
Anne was a striking beauty with amiable nature, gentle mannerisms, and inborn sophistication. But she dressed up as a humble social worker.
She had tickled everyone’s fancy, and she attracted many suitors. But she had rejected everyone who had tried to court her. They were only looking for a fling and a laugh which was quite obvious.
The rejected boys, unknown to her, started a bet on who could score her.
Lester had realized she was a genuine person who was working out of compassion. Hence, instead of courting her overtly, he started to help her around.
Finally, Anne lowered her guard against him after a few weeks and they became close. After two months, they were dating.
Lester had won the bet and had already collected the money even though he had not managed to sleep with her as per the bet.
However, he did not break up with her immediately because he enjoyed her company in the remote mountain where there was not much to do for entertainment. He was wondering when she would finally figure out that he was just role-playing.
Unsuspecting Anne fell for him hard as she thought he loved her for who she was.
The day they were supposed to take off from there, Lester went to look for Anne to break up with her, but before he could say anything, the richest man in P city, Leon Petrova, arrived to escort his only daughter back.
They had been in the mountains for four months and Leon had missed Anne. He was proud of his daughter’s resilience in surviving and helping others in such a remote place.
Anne was born in riches and had everything at her beck and call. Leon was quite impressed with her and planned to announce her as his heir after they went back to P city.
Watching Leon check on Anne who they had all assumed was a poor social worker, Lester Aprice realized that he had hit a lottery.
Instead of breaking up with her, he proposed to her.
Leon was sharp enough to catch the change in Lester’s expressions, silent exchange between the boys, and the few careless words that had escaped their mouths.
He never trusted Lester, but Anne was stubborn in love.
Leon agreed to let Anne marry Lester but with several conditions, one being not telling Lester on the exact Petrova power.
Anne trusted Lester wholeheartedly and agreed to everything as she was sure Lester would win over Leon with his sincerity.