Chapter 7

Anna's pov

When Dante shouted at me all the old memories came rushing back to my mind. The memories of my uncle shouting and hitting me, whenever I tried to resist him from touching me.

I knew that Dante's yelling had nothing like my uncle’s. Yet my mind was not able to comprehend that.

Till now everyone was really kind and patient with me and whether I accept it or not in my heart at some corner I felt that no one here was going to hurt me like my uncle but still my mind was a little skeptical.

And for that reason I didn't want to let my guard down, because the one thing that I learnt from all the year long sufferings in my life was, if you kept your guards down and let yourself get comfortable around others, you are giving them a chance to hurt yourself and I didn't had any more strength to endure that kind of hurt and pain.

That's why I ran from there with full force. When I entered our room, as an old habit my first instinct was to lock the door but then I remembered that it was