Anna Devane and Valentin Cassadine were fellow cadets at the WSB spy training academy. He was a brilliant but disfigured young man, and she was his beautiful friend who refused a kiss from him on her birthday – and the woman he believed had betrayed him. Reunited 30 years later, they learn it was Anna's twin, Alexandra, who seduced him into crime, and not Anna.

Anna Devane and Valentin Cassadine were fellow cadets at the WSB spy training academy. He was a brilliant but disfigured young man, and she was his beautiful friend who refused a kiss from him on her birthday. Reunited 30 years later in 2017, the two have sparred, grown close and come to an understanding, appearing to have settled their complicated history. Or maybe not!