Mr. Smith smiled at this, "Glad to know, if you got swayed by no matter what reason might be, and left her alone, let me tell you, you won't be considered as man of the Smith family! hahaha!"
*cough-cough*
"Calm down father!" Aiden said worriedly, "I think I should call the Doctor." Saying that, he was about to call the doctor worriedly.
"No! Aiden stay here, come here." Mr. Smith's voice was very week at the moment.
Suddenly, Aiden got very worried, his father's health was deteriorating at a very fast rate.
His father's doctor, Dr. Susan, had told the family that, although his health is at a dangerous state, it was not life threatening.
Then what was this situation about? Should they change the doctor for consultation? Or maybe the hospital? But this was the best one in the Capital, one could also say that it was the best in almost the entire country, then why was the diagnosis so problematic?
As these chaotic thoughts rushed inside his mind, Aiden calmly sat besides his father.
As he sat there, Mr. Smith took his hand in his own, "Look Aiden, this time I am not joking or anything, I want to genuinely have a talk with you about some concerns that are bothering me."
Aiden thought that it might be about the topic they were talking about previously; regarding relationships. But it seemed as if Mr. Smith had a different topic in his mind.
"You have to remember one thing, friendships are almost non-existent in the line of work our family is in. In business, one only thinks about reaching their goal, and if, in it's process they need to be ruthless.... they will surely be. I want you to know, friendship is one thing where as, being a business partner is another. You get it?"
Aiden didn't seem to understand where this topic was coming from, but still, he nodded his head.
This talk was not new for him. Since he was
very young, his brother had always reminded him about this.
Ethan used to tell him that, even though they were considered as the 'privileged' part of the society and were imagined to be one of the happiest, it was only partially the truth.
Unlike normal people, when they went to birthday parties, it was not for well wishes but for connections. When they made friends, it was not based on true friendship, but based on how influential one's family is. It was one of the reasons Aiden did not have many friends in this circle.
After getting this reaction from his son, Mr. Smith knew that Aiden was taking his advise casually, so he thought of talking about this to Ethan later on. "And where is she?" He said as he looked towards the door.
"Oh. I will go out and check up upon her, she seemed to be a little upset that time.!" Aiden stood up hastily, "Press the bell if any help is needed okay? I will see you later." He said as he came out of the room.
...
As soon as Aiden went out, he noticed that there was no one in the corridor apart of some hospital staff.
He quickly went to check inside Mr. Martin's ward room. In the room, it seemed as if Mr. Martin was trying to pacify his angry wife, who looked as if she could blow up any second because of anger.
Both Maya, as well as Lucas were nowhere to be found.
Aiden immediately pulled over the staff and asked her if she had seen where the two people had gone to.
"Umm... I think that the lady went inside the elevator and it had stopped on the second floor, she might have gone to the cafeteria. As for the man I think after both of them fought, he followed her a few minutes later."
"They had a fight!!?" Aiden thought as he got inside the elevator and went to the second floor as well.
...
"Maya what the hell did you think you were doing there!!?" Lucas's angry voice could be heard even before Aiden had entered the café.
It was already very late so there were not many people present, only the café staff and few costumers were present.
"Get lost Lucas! I really don't know how you and your family could even face me all this time!! Like seriously! Do you guys have even a tiny bit of shame?" Maya retorted back with the same amount of anger.
"You know? I was not the one who had brought it up! It was your mother!! Even after witnessing it myself, God knows why I still wanted to end it on a better note. It seems that you will really not get satisfied with whatever you get. I have given your family so much of money, and you still want more? As if! Jerk!!" Maya said as she took the things from the staff she had ordered.
It was a late-night shift, so this staff member was least bothered or interested in any of this drama.
After being bad- mouthed about openly, in front of everyone Lucas lost his mind and raised his hand to hit Maya, "How dare you! You bi-"
Maya wanted to fight back but at the moment her hands were full with stuff she had just brought. Not expecting this all of a sudden, she raised her hand in reflex to protect herself.
"...." She had expected his hit to land on her any second, but she did not feel anything for like three seconds!
"Is he moving in slow motion or what!? Let's just deal with it already! Or maybe Lucas finally became a little aware!?" Within just three seconds, these thoughts rushed into her mind.
*thap*
Maya finally moved her head and looked up when she heard the voice of slight slapping on someone's hand; it was as if someone had forcefully stopped the hand which was approaching her.
When she raised her head, she saw that Aiden had come and was grasping Lucas's hand tightly. He looked very angry. So angry that she could practically see his veins popping up!
"Aaah! Aaaaaah! Stop! Stop!" Lucas shouted in pain as he hastily patted Aiden's arm with his other hand.
*crack!* There was a very small sound, if Maya was not standing close to them, she might have not even heard it.
She looked at Aiden with wide eyes as she said, "I think we can leave it to that Aiden! You might break his hand!" She worriedly looked at him, "You should stop...!"
Aiden looked at her and sighed in relief, she was not hurt at least. He then looked at Lucas, pressed his hand even more tightly as he pushed him with force.
"Aaaghh!" Lucas fell onto the chairs and tables of the cafeteria making a lot of noise. He looked at Aiden in disbelief, even when Maya had stopped him, this guy still broke is arm!
Aiden put his arm around Maya's shoulders as they were about to leave.
Upon looking at him closely, Lucas suddenly realized something, "Hey! Aren't you the guy from the hotel!!? What are you doing here!!?"
To this, Maya just didn't bother looking back at him, whereas Aiden looked at Lucas sideways and said, "Right now, I really regret saving you that day." Saying that, both of them left the cafeteria.
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"....!?" Lucas was shocked after receiving this response from Aiden, "He regrets saving me?"
Lucas took a second look at Aiden as he thought, "We have met before?"
...
Aiden opened the car door for Maya as she got in. As Maya sat in, she started to search for some place to keep her stuff.
In the meantime, Aiden came from the other side and sat on the driver's seat, "What are you looking for?" He looked at her, she had a cold drink glass in one hand, while something that looked like an ice pack in other.
Earlier he had not seen it because of the rush, but now, when he clearly saw Maya, it seemed that the left side of her cheek looked a bit bruised!
"You are hurt!" Aiden said with concern as he instinctively touched Maya's face.
*hiss!* Maya flinched at his sudden action as she looked away from him.
"Shoot! I am so sorry! Did I hurt you?" When he had touched her face, Aiden had been fully aware and had tried to be as gentle as possible, his touch could be considered as a feather light one but he had not expected that even this could hurt her.
"No it's not that bad, it doesn't hurt that much on the outside. It's just that the inside part of my cheek has suffered a bit, there's a slight cut. hahaha!" Maya laughed embarrassedly, "Side effects of having sharp teeth!" (^_^;)
She tried to laugh it off and put the ice-pack on the left side of her face. Aiden saw that she did not want to talk about it but he also wanted to tell her, that since they were in the hospital already, she could get some treatment gel here itself.
When he saw her being a bit embarrassed talking about this, he did not say his thoughts out loud.
"So...? Where should we go? Should I drop you off to your hom-" Aiden stopped himself before saying 'home'.
"Ugh! I'm so stupid! This is a different city! How can she have a home here!?" He reprimanded himself and continued awkwardly, "Umm.... Should I drop you off at the hotel your parents are staying at?" Aiden remembered Sofia telling him that she would come at the gathering after she had dropped her parents off at the hotel; it might be the same place Maya was also planning to stay at.
He looked at Maya expecting some sort of an answer from her, but she was just sitting there with a blank face as she took a sip from the cold drink she had.
It seemed as if she had not heard the second sentence said by Aiden and was stuck at his first, half spoken sentence. "Home....? I don't have a home, Aiden. Not anymo-"
Realizing something all of a sudden, Maya woke up from her stupor and continued in a perky voice, "And my home is in Zed city! What are you talking about!? Are you going to drive me all the way back? A road trip!! haha I guess it would be fun!!" It was as if the depressed Maya from a few seconds ago never existed!
Aiden looked at Maya, his heart ached for her. He knew that she had suffered a lot from a very young age... He did not want to see her sad, he liked the perky smile she had. But right now, the same smile made his heart ache.
In moments like these, he wanted Maya not to consider him as an outsider and hoped that she could pour out her sadness to him. Although he loved to see her smile, he did not want to see one which was a coverup for her sadness.
"You want to go for a road trip? Then we shall go for a road trip!" Aiden looked at her with pure tenderness in his eyes.
Maya looked at him, "...What!?" When she realized the way he was looking at her right now, she immediately looked out of the window and said, "Whatever!"
Aiden thought that she had gotten angry with him but when he noticed her reddish ears, he understood that she was just shy. He laughed as he started the car, "Well you can't call this a road trip exactly, but.... a long drive maybe? I don't know. Anyways, let's go!"
...
Aiden's Bentley Mulsanne Speed sped through the highways as Maya looked out the window sipping her drink.
Soon, she was looking at her empty glass and the icepack which had almost melted and then, she looked at Aiden.
Even she herself didn't know why was she looking at him.
Aiden looked at her and exclaimed, "Oh I'm sorry I didn't realize this earlier! Yeah, I think this car had an mini refrigerator in it, there might be some drinks left in it. You can check it out."
".....!?" Maya scoffed. "You have a refrigerator in car!? Oh god hahaha! Now that I see, you have a thing for luxury cars, don't you?"
"Um... yeah, it was optional but Liam said that it would be fun so I had them install it. And yes, I really like collecting cars! I guess you can say that's the perk of being rich? Is it a bad thing?" Aiden asked Maya doubtfully and then continued telling her about his car collection.
This time, it was Maya who looked at him, although he was talking to her, he looked straight ahead as he drove the car skillfully. Maya had a beautiful smile on her face as she looked him talking about his hobby so passionately.
It was already very late night, Maya's eyes were drooping but Aiden was still driving.
"You want to sleep? You should, it has been a long day for you."
"No- no." Maya declined his offer, he was the one driving and that too mainly because of her silly wish, how could she just fall asleep while he does all the work? "Can I roll-down the full window?
"Yeah sure, whatever you want!" Aiden responded. There were not many cars now on the road, so it was mostly safe if she wanted to look with her head out.
*Wooosh!*
As soon as Maya opened the entire window, great amount of wind rushed in, it was now that she realized that the speed they were driving in, was very fast.
Aiden decreased the original speed of the car, as Maya carefully took her head out and shouted in the wind, "Oh my God!! Aaaaah - oooooh!!!"
After a few seconds of enjoyment, she came back in a looked at Aiden who cracked up upon seeing her. Her hair was just so messed up at the moment.
But Maya seemed unaware of this as she excitedly looked at him, her previous drowsiness was nowhere to be found, "This is so fun!! I always wondered why people liked long drives and all, but today I understood it all!"
After saying her piece, Maya popped her head out again and repeated the stuff she was enjoying.
Aiden looked at her being so happy, just like a child and laughed. "I am increasing the speed a bit, make sure to hold on tight!" And they sped off on the empty roads.
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