The maid held the side of her cheek, she felt so much pain; it is only a slap, and yet it has too much force in it. But the most painful thing is that Anna called her stupid. Her pride can't take such humiliating words that Anna is spouting to her.
"You can't get away from this, you are already caught red-handed. You better not try to find your way out of this or else, elder Coleman might actually kill you after this." Though Kyle is not entirely sure if Marcus will only punish the maid, whatever Marcus will do to her, Kyle will not care as long as the maid got what she deserves.
"Y-young master Kyle, I, I—" The way those words came out of the maid's mouth sounded so tender and pitiful. That really triggered Anna very much; she did not like the sound of it. The way she hears those words, it sounded so disgusting and she doesn't want to hear more of it.
Anna can even see that the maid is trying to make Kyle pity her and defend her from her grandfather's rage. Being at her limit, Anna tightly held the maid's chin, forcing the maid to look at her. "If I were you, I would stop doing what you are doing right now because I can assure you that it is not gonna work as long as I am here."
The maids every expression reminds Anna a lot of how Rebecca acts so pitifully whenever Juan is around.
Anna doesn't understand why some people think that people like Kyle always take pity on then whenever they act pitiful. She thinks that those kinds of people are too disgusting to look at. Sometimes, she just wishes for people like the maid in front of her to be gone in the world; they have corrupted the planet earth that God has given them.
"Anna, what is going on?" A voice from behind was suddenly heard, and that voice came from Anna's grandfather, Marcus. "You had just recovered from your allergy, you should be relaxing your body first before moving around too much." He said in a worried tone.
Marcus did not notice the maid since Anna and Kyle blocking the sight of her. He could not see the maid, but he could hear that maid's sobbing. That maid Marcus frown; it looks to him that the sobbings definitely did not come from his granddaughter, so he wonders where did that sobbing come from. "What's with the annoying noise?" He said in irritation.
"That annoying noise came from her," Kyle said as he moves away from the maid and showed Marcus the pathetic face the maid is making right now. He also showed Marcus the container that the maid was about to throw out earlier.
"This..."
"Yes, grandfather. That is the same container that was used last night to tamper nanny Tess' flour."
"Michael." With just one call from Marcus, Michael forcefully dragged the young maid away from everyone else. Everyone that they were passing by was whispering towards each other, they feel sorry for the young maid, but at the same time, they don't because it is her fault for doing something like that towards the young miss of the Coleman family.
Whatever happens to that maid, the workers dare not to imagine, and they also dare not to report it to the officials because they know better not to or else they might experience the same end.
"What will happen to her?" Anna asked. She truly wants to see the young maid suffer, but she felt that if she sees that maid again, she might puke from being disgusted by her. In the end, she decided not to see that maid for the time being; she only hopes that her grandfather won't kill her right away.
"She will be punished." Marcus has plans on telling what had happened today to Mary and Aaron, and once they knew what happened, Marcus is sure that they will give the maid a much harder time. One of their family rules: those who harm one of the Colemans shall be punished. Whether the maid dies from being punished by the Colemans does not concern Marcus one bit.
"For the time being, I think you should rest." Marcus looks at Kyle, then continued, "Kyle, take Anna to her room and make sure she sleeps, she needs it." After saying that Marcus gave Kyle a meaningful stare. It was as if he is saying that there is a certain line for Kyle to not cross, and of course, Kyle knows what Marcus is talking about.
Anna's face froze when she heard that; she can't believe that her grandfather really just said that. She understands that her grandfather wants her to rest, but why would he command Kyle to bring her to her room? It is not like she doesn't know how to get there.
Besides, she barely knows Kyle! Why would she let a man enter her room? This situation can create quite a ruckus if someone from the outside knows that Kyle entered the Coleman heiress' room.
Marcus' reason for doing this is because he wanted Kyle to have a chance to talk to Anna; to let them get to know each other more. This is more like how Marcus is repaying Kyle for the hard work he had done for the past days.
Of course, during the chance Marcus is giving Kyle, he also made it clear to Kyle that one mistake can take back everything that he had said.
Anna was about decline her grandfather's sudden orders, but Kyle lifted her up, carrying her in a bridal style. "Understood," Kyle said with a smile and immediately follows Marcus' commands.
Marcus watched the slowly disappearing silhouette of Kyle and Anna, and he could not help but shakes his head, "Ughh. These days, young people are just too much for me to handle."