3. Mysterious girl

On the way to the company no one talked in the car. Lyra wanted to apologize to her for bringing up the topic of marriage but she knew what anna currently wanted was space.

Soon Anna reached the company and entered with Lyra. As always, she was welcomed by her staffs, though many people called her the cold-hearted businesswoman she was deeply respected by her colleagues for being one of most successful women. She started working in this company by are dads' side when she was young, entering as a staff and hiding her identity as the CEO’s daughter anna grew up with many staff in the company.

Though she was strict and short-tempered person she never would raise her voice against her staff unless there was a need. She hated traitors the most because she trusts her staff a lot that she would hate to know that they made a fool out of her.

As she was going to her office room after greeting them back, her HR. Manager came running to her for signing a few documents which needed either her or lyra’s sign. After signing it as she was proceeding to go, she heard a few of her staff talking about someone's death anniversary. Lyra who had just finished making two glasses of hot chocolate saw anna staring at the staffs who was gossiping, as curiosity arose in her she leaned a bit forward to hear the conversation.

**“You know it's been 3 years since the bomb blast in the borders happened\, were many great soldiers lost their life.” **

“3 years ago, at this day by 10:30 am the blast happened, only last year did they say that it was a bomb blast until then it was hidden.” One of the staff who just passed by, joined the conversation.

“Many families lost they beloved, I lost one of my long-distanced cousins. They said that they would come back that year to celebrate which all of us Christmas. We were thinking of gathering to celebrate all together that years because we hadn't met for 4 years but instead of them returning, we got a news of their death. Although we were not close, I still miss them”. One girl told as tears formed in her eyes.

Anna and Lyra took a mental note of this girl's situation and was thinking of giving the that girl a day off. Lyra who thought of going near anna froze in her place when she heard the next conversation.

“And one of the most hardworking captains who won many awards also died. One of their names was Sean and the other was Evan or Ethan, I keep forgetting his name.” A girl told as she was trying hard the remember the name of the second captain.

“Ethan Stonehill.” The girl next to her corrected proudly, it was indeed pride to speak about the nation’s best soldier

“I heard that he had a close friend from high school who later became his girlfriend, no one knows her name as she did not want the world to know. She always kept a low profile; there was even a picture of them in a mall taken by some fellow soldier. Her half face was only seen on the picture.” A girl informed as she was the one who started the conversation.

“He loved her so much that no one saw him with other girls, even after his death there was no information of her and some of his colleagues found the letters that he wanted to send to her." She continued telling the story with a lot of love and admiration for the two couples.

Lyra snarled as she heard the love story of the two people, everyone who heard the story looked forward to the story with admiration but they never knew that the beautiful story had an end the world didn’t know. Soon her concentration turned back to Anna whose face hardened more and more as the story continued.

**“Everyone wishes to have the same love story as them. I wish....” **

“Seems like you people had finished the work that was given to you?” A cold voice stopped them form continuing their conversation. The voice sent shivers down their spine even Lyra’s.

“N-o there is still a little mo-re." The girls stuttered has they spoke.

Everyone who was present there knew that Anna hated when people lazed around at the work place. Moreover, she spoke in a very cold voice which she wouldn’t use unless she would be so pissed off. She was unlike normal CEO who would just scream at their staff for silly mistakes, she was friendly and would correct them if they made a mistake. She would always hear their explanation rather than coming into conclusions.

No one dared to talk or utter a word. Seeing Anna getting more pissed with the conversation Lyra ran to her side and patted her back indicating her not to blast out. Lyra knew that his name would make Anna uncomfortable, but she never knew that she would speak this cold to her staffs.

“What are you people standing here for, go back to work, and you five come to my office in 15 minutes and submit the assignment that was given to you.” Lyra told the staffs who were watching the scene to go back to what they were doing and turned to the five girls who was silently standing there waiting for command to turn to her office by 15 minutes.

While Lyra was dealing them Anna continued walking into her office deeply thinking of what she heard a few minutes ago, the great love story of a great soldier and his mysterious girlfriend.

‘Only if they knew that the story did not work out, as they thought it did. It held a very mysterious dark secrets and tiny lie which turned the story to unexpected ends.” 

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