With a professional smile, Lucas shamelessly extended his hand towards David. "Hello Mr. Parker, I am Lucas Martin. I have heard a lot about you."
Mr. Parker paid no heed to the words said by Lucas and walked past him as if he was non- existent.
"...." Lucas awkwardly pulled his extended hand back as he followed David and continued, "Of course I have heard about you from your daughter, you have to know, that although she doesn't show it much, she has immense importance and respect for you in her heart-"
"What is he trying to do?" Maya angrily thought in her mind. It was not only Maya but Sofia and Samartha as well. But between the three of them,
Samartha was the only one who was interested in seeing what would happen next.
"I hope you know that by doing this you won't be gaining any more favours from Maya." Suddenly Mr. Parker said, even if anyone else was not able to understand Lucas's intentions, he understood them well.
"No- no, of course not!! I am truly appreciating your daughter." Lucas gave a fake laugh as his scheme was uncovered.
Maya looked at him in disbelief. She could not believe that the person she had loved since so long was like this in reality.
After listening to Lucas still ranting about his daughter, David sarcastically said, "Then Mr. Martin, I don't think that I need some outsider to inform me about my family related matters regarding my daughter."
" 'Outsider?' Had I been in a relationship with your daughter for so many years only to hear this!?" Thoughts of Lucas were going all over the place but his stiff smile was stuck on his face.
Samartha felt that she should say something, and said, "Oh come on, don't be so harsh on him. I think he means well!"
David acted oblivious to her suggestion when he saw Sofia opening the car's door for him. "Thank you Sofia." He said as got in.
Sofia held the door open until her father got in and when she saw that her mother was also about to sit, she shut the door on her face! She then proceeded to open the door for herself as she went to sit on the passenger seat.
"What do you think you are-" Samartha raised her voice.
"Trust me mom, I also mean well!" Sofia taunted her as she shut her door as well.
".....!!" These kids of her, held no respect for her at all! Outrageous!
Now only Maya, Samartha and Lucas were standing out.
Seeing that things were taking an extremely awkward turn, Lucas immediately thought of gaining some favor and opened the car door for Samartha like a gentleman.
Samartha managed to put a smile on her face and gave a 'thank you' to Lucas as she also got in.
Maya looked at Sofia who was in a good mood after doing such a childish thing, she did the action of putting the phone on her ear intending to say that she will call her later on. Then they drove away.
Finally, it was only Maya and Lucas.
"What did you think you were doing Lucas? Huh?" Maya really wanted to know what all rubbish was going around in his pea- sized brain.
"Your father could guess it on his first try. Did you not hear him? Since I helped you improve your impression in front of your father by saying some good words, I hope that you can also help me generously later on. After all, even you know how much my family has to suffer in this bad economy."
Since his true colors had already been exposed to Maya, Lucas did not think it was necessary any more to sugarcoat his words before saying anything.
Maya just felt absurd, she did not say anything else and started to move forward towards the car waiting for her as she took out her phone. She found Aiden's number and texted him telling that she would be a bit late for the gathering they had planned today. She also told him to tell about this to Sofia so that she can plan accordingly.
"Hey! Wait! Where are you going?" Lucas was shocked that suddenly Maya was deciding to leave, and that too even without paying any attention to him!
"Had we not decided that we will meet later on? Why did you come here so early?" Now all of her plans were disrupted. "Anyways, since you have already come here, we can now simply head to your home. Let's finish this as soon as possible."
Saying that, Maya sat in her car. She was about to shut the car door when she heard him say, "Wait! Let me sit as well. Let's go there together." As Lucas was saying this, he tried to pull the door outwards so as to sit in.
"Excuse me-" Maya said as she forcefully pulled the door and closed it. She then rolled down the window and continued, "I do not think that we have to travel together. It is inconvenient for me. Please find your own ride." Maya motioned the driver to drive and looked at Lucas again, "See you at your parents house."
"...." Lucas did not know how to react. "Did I just get abandoned by the women I had abandoned?"
...
Meanwhile, the person who had 'abandoned' someone was chatting with Aiden.
He had asked Maya the reason she was at the Capital. Maya did not want to talk much about it so she just told him that she was on a business trip.
They talked for a while before Aiden said that he needed to do something. So after that Maya kept her phone back and asked the driver, "How much more time will it take to reach there?"
To which he responded, "About forty- five more minutes ma'am. We should have reached within around thirty minutes if this was a regular day, but I think there is some construction work going on right now, hence the delay."
"Oh okay..." Maya had a slight headache so she closed her eyes and took a small nap.
...
"Ma'am? Ma'am?" The driver called out but it seemed that Maya was having a good sleep.
He raised his voice and almost yelled at her, "Ma'am!!?"
"Hmm!? Huh? Yes, have we reached?" Maya was shocked that she slept like a log. "It must be because of jet lag." She thought.
"I think it will take me some time, so if you want to go somewhere, you can go, okay?" Maya informed the driver as she stepped out.
"No need ma'am, thank you." The driver was grateful towards Maya, after all there were quite a few people who did not considered people like him as their servants and respected them.
Maya smiled as she said, "Okay." Then she took a deep breath as she walked into the lobby of the building.
I was listening songs while writing this chapter & I realized that I almost have no songs of my mother tongue (^_^;) haha. Tell me which language songs do you guys listen to!?
Maya walked into the lobby as she saw the receptionist sitting there. She gave Maya a big smile and said, "Congratulations madam!"
As Maya waited for the elevator to arrive, she asked her, "What are you talking about?"
"I heard that you are getting engaged by the end of this month? Mrs. Martin is so happy about it. In fact the entire Martin family is. She has been going around telling everyone that she will be inviting them to yours and Mr. Lucas's wedding next year!"
The receptionist said all things in one go, it was as if she had expected Maya to ask this and had deliberately learned all these lines.
But at the moment, Maya was a bit too muddle headed to notice this.
She quickly said in a friendly manner, "No~ What are you talking about? Even I do not know about this and look at you. I want you to do me a favor, okay?"
Although Maya knew that what she was going to do next is very shameful, she still decided to do it. Maya handed the receptionist some good amount of money and told her to stop saying this and to stop anyone who talks about this.
"I would be really thankful to you if you do so. If you hear anyone talking about it, just tell them that these are just some baseless rumors, okay?"
Maya was feeling very guilty right now. She knew that out of all the people involved in this indecent, she was the first person who had nothing to feel guilty about, but at the moment she could not help but panic a bit for the Martin family.
After that she entered the elevator and pressed the fifth floor button.
She remembered that when she had come to this place for the first time, it was to buy this flat for Lucas's family, she had come here with Lucas. Both of them had wanted to take a flat which was at a lower floor, because one never knew when Lucas's father might have a relapse and had an emergency. If that time ever came, wouldn't it be better if they did not have long waiting time for elevators or huge amount of staircases?
They could not get a flat at the first or the second floor, so the dealer told them that the flat available closest to ground was on the fifth floor but the only problem was that it's rate was very high.
Maya then decided to pay half of the amount for the flat from her savings while the rest was paid by Lucas's family.
Meanwhile the receptionist looked at her hand full of cash, today she had earned quite a lot, first it was Lucas who gave her some money to 'say some things' and now it was Maya who gave her money to stop saying the same things! Ha!
"She gave me much more than Mr. Lucas... I guess this is the difference between the rich and stingy people like Mr. Lucas." The receptionist rambled on.
"When first I had heard that this Mr. Lucas let his girlfriend pay for everything in his house, I did not believe it! But last time when they had visited, I could see that Miss Maya was very generous. She had brought small presents for all of the workers and asked us to take good care of her 'boyfriends' parents'. No wonder she does not want to marry him anymore. She must be tired of taking care of her in-laws so much even before their marriage."
...
*Ding* The elevator reached the fifth floor and Maya got out. She noticed that the door was closed and thought that maybe Lucas had not arrived yet. She then called Lucas intending to ask him about where he was.
"Hello...?" A person with disinterested voice picked up the phone, it was the voice of Mrs. Martin.
"Um... hello aunty. It's me, Maya. Actually I had called to check if Lucas had reached but now it seems that he is with you." Maya said politely.
"Oh... Ooh! Maya, it's you! Wait let me open the door, you have come up, right? Lucas! Go and open the door! Maya is here!" Mrs. Martin was almost shouting with excitement.
*clack*
Suddenly the door in front of Maya opened, it was Lucas who opened it. He had a weird expression on his face, it was as if he was blaming Maya for what all that was going to happen now.
This time however, Maya did not take it lightly and glared at him back with double intensity. It was not her who had to be blamed but Lucas himself.
Not expecting this reaction from her, Lucas made a guilty face and changed the topic, "You do not need to worry... even I had just arrived, you are not late."
"I don't care about that, why would I worry about it?" Maya said in a low voice so as to only both of them could hear her words.
"Hello aunty! How are you? And how is uncle doing?" Maya cheerfully said, she did not want to be serious since the beginning and spoil everyone's mood. "Where is he, inside?"
Both Maya and Mrs. Martin then headed inside to meet Mr. Martin; Lucas's father.
Lucas scoffed at Maya's behavior. "I guess she really considered my mother and father as her own. Too bad-" Lucas stopped and headed inside, Maya had taken out some tonics as she handed them to his parents.
"These energy drinks are very good for health, it is not necessary to be ill to take them, you can drink them on regular basis. The instructions are inside." Maya explained to them.
"These are so expensive! There was no need for you to bring them this time. The ones you had brought on your last visit are still kept untouched!" Mr. Martin said.
Although it was not seen on his face, he was in fact really very embarrassed to face Maya. He had tried to explain his wife and son several times, that they should not take so much of advantage of this girl, but they never listened to him. Gradually, his conscience was also taken over by greed and then he avoided talking about this.
They talked for some time...
Soon Maya thought that maybe it was time to break the news to them. She got a bit serious.
"Yeah... So... uncle, aunty-" Maya looked at them with an apologetic look, "This time, Lucas and I came here to tell you about something."
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