บท 53: I regret saving you.

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.