บท 7: The art of manipulation...

What it felt like a decade, Mrs. Davies finally came out of her trance and asked seriously, "Ely, how is your relationship going on with your boyfriend now?"

Elysia who was munching some snacks while chirping with her father happily, suddenly stopped hearing her mother asking about her boyfriend.

"He is okay Mom. Why whouldn't he be? After all, he got a new movie project?" Elysia said uninterestedly.

Both of the parents just looked at Elysia with furrowed eyebrows and shared a glance with each other.

Mrs. Davies looked back at her daughter and asked, "Why are you talking like this? Did you have a fight with him?"

"Mom.. Nothing happened. Let's just not talk about him and waste our time which we can spend watching some great movies…

You know, I miss the three of us sitting together and having a movie marathon which we used to do every now and then previously." Elysia decided to divert the direction of their conversation to another way.

Being the parents of Elysia, Mr. and Mrs. Davies quickly grasped the actual motive of their daughter..

They knew that either there daughter was hiding something from them or there was some problems brewing between Elysia and her boyfriend!!

Mr. Davies stayed quite for some time and then mumbled, "I never liked that boy from the first time I've met him. But it was you Ely who decided on dating him...

So I never said anything as I know that you're enough sensible to take your own decisions. But if anything is wrong between you both, either solve it or take a wise judgement."

As Mr. Davies indirectly warned her and suggested her something, Mrs. Davies too nodded her head in affirmation.

While Elysia clearly understood exactly what her father wanted to say but she had her own plan in her mind..

And she was badly waiting for the correct time to arrive, so that she could give some people the taste of their own medicines in a very interesting way.

"Don't worry, Dad. As you have given me freedom to choose the best for my life and trusted me on every single matter, I promise that I'll never betray your loyalty…

But if someone tries to play with me, then I exactly know how to be the highest scorer in the game. Neither I'm a loser nor I'm a fool to get convinced with whatever people feed me.." Elysia said with an evil smirk on her face.

She then took both of her parents' hands in hers and held it tightly as if confirming them that nothing was wrong.

"I'm the daughter of both of you, Mom and Dad. As the only princess of the two successful business persons, I also know how to win a bet...

Though I don't know about the business politics much but I know the art of manipulation very well.." A glint of wickedness could be visible in Elysia's ocean blue eyes as she said this.

"We trust you, love.. And we know whatever our princess will do, always be for a reason.." Mrs. Davies said smilingly at their daughter while her husband just patted Elysia's head lovingly...

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In an luxurious apartment...

Two people were lying on the bed naked while their bare bodies were covered only by a duvet.

The woman was resting her head on the man's chest while they both were breathing heavily as the aftermath of their lovemaking.

"Liam, do you think what we are doing is right? We should not hide it from anyone, specially her.." Kiara said making circles on Liam's bare chest.

"Babe, whatever we are doing is for our best. Both of us love each other and it's completely our decision to date whomever we want…

So the outsiders are in no position to point there fingers on us." Liam said, playing with his girlfriend's hairs.

Kiara felt really frustrated with his trivial reply and she moved away from him immediately as she sat on the bed facing Liam.

Fixing the duvet around her naked body properly, Kiara almost snapped at him, "You know exactly whom I'm talking about. And it's absolutely not the matter of outsiders…

It's about the person we both are betraying with our lies. More specifically, if the person comes to know about you cheating on her, then we'll be absolutely gone."

Hearing it, Liam too got up from the bed and pulled Kiara towards him before saying, "Why are you worrying so much darling?

We have been already dating each other from the past one month behind her back, but she being a little fool couldn't even get a single hint about us.!!!"