However, Ann felt a stab of annoyance. The anger that was slowly ebbing away returned.
“What are you still waiting for? Leave! I want everyone out of my sight!”
“Ann, calm down.”
“You need to stop doing this. We are here to beg you, at least consider that,” Max said.
“And mind you, Dad is also with us. Will you send him away like that? If words get out, people would call you names. Is that what you want?”
Ann huffed. “Do you think I still care about people? What had happened earlier at the succession party? Didn't I tell you I no longer care about what people say?”
No one responded.
“But tell me what you are doing here exactly. I thought you didn't believe Drey. So, why are you here?” She hesitated as she regarded their faces one after the other. “Don't tell me,” she burst out laugh
