Desires Die Hard (Anya and Evan) by Beryl Occam
Desires Die Hard Chapter 197

Chapter 197

It seemed like the more Anya tried to avoid, the more likely it would come in her way.

As Anya walked to the lift lobby with Jake, Evan slowly walked over as well. He would not do anything to her while they were in the vicinity of the Welton group. He upheld the behavior of a gentleman. He was interested in Anya and was keen to get to know her better but that was about it. It was not to a point of infatuation. Evan knew better than to react violently to Jake who happened to be walking beside the woman he admired. He had outgrown the age of a reckless teen. With his assistant, they walked calmly to the other side of the lift lobby and waited.

On the other hand, Jake noticed the CEO and walked over to greet him out of formality. “Good morning, Mr. Welton.”

It

was on

only natural that Anya who was walking behind Jake to greet the CEO as well. “Good morning, Mr. Welton.”

Evan acknowledged both of them briefly but his eyes glazed towards Anya for a moment.

As they were waiting for the lift, suddenly, a young man came out of nowhere. He had a black cloth tied around his face, covering his mouth and was holding a glass bottle in his hand. He shouted as he charged towards Anya.

He was Lola’s die–hard fan. As soon as the news Lola’s engagement was reported, he could not accept the fact that someone leaked the news and he wanted to get back at the person for doing so. Naturally, Anya, who was the designer at JK, was the biggest suspect. He appeared in the office building, wanting to teach the culprit a lesson to keep mum about such news and not bring unnecessary rumors to his goddess.

Everyone including Anya was startled, all except for Evan who had his attention focused on the attacker as he approached. Anya. In a swift action, he stepped in front of Anya, grabbed her hand with his big warm hand and pulled her behind him. The attacker raised his hand with the glass bottle. Evan kicked the attacker swiftly in his chest that there was a crack sound possibly from a fractured bone. His accurate attack sent the attacker falling to the ground, groaning in pain.

Evan took up training in boxing previously so it was unlucky for the attacker. He rolled on the floor with his hand on his chest. He was in so much pain that he could barely groan anymore.

Anya watched the man on the floor and slowly got back to her senses. She looked at the man in front of her who protected her in the face of harm. Her heart throbbed but she quickly dismissed it as an abnormality.

She tried to pull her hand back from Evan’s grip but the grip was too tight and he had no intention of letting go.

Anya panicked and hinted softly to him. “Mr. Welton, we are in the office building.” She knew that Evan would not do anything to her as long as they were in the building.

When Evan heard her, he turned his head and looked at her. He slowly released his grip on her hand, just as she had thought he would.

As soon as his grip loosened, Anya pulled back her hand and gently caressed it with her other hand.

Jake just recovered from the shock as well so he missed the part where Evan was holding on to Anya. He walked over to Anya to check if she was okay. At this point, the attacker suddenly stood up again. He endured the pain and raised the glass bottle at Anya. “Anya MacMillan, you evil scheming designer! How dare you expose the engagement details of our Lola! I’m going to kill you!”

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Chapter 197

The man roared as he swung down the glass bottle. Shaken, Anya tried to dodge but before she managed to do so, the man in front of her stretched his arm across to block the glass bottle. The sound of glass shattering was loud in the enclosed lift lobby. Following shortly was an exclamation from Evan’s assistant. “Mr. Welton, your hand is bleeding!”

Anya turned to Evan, still dumbfounded by what just happened. At the back of Evan’s hand was a long cut from the shattered glass and blood streamed down.

Looking at Evan, the strange thumping in her heart acted up again for a split second. Since Anya knew that it would be Impossible for anything to happen between Evan and her, she dismissed it again as gratefulness and nothing else.