A Father's Thoughts

Uncle Ren had practically raised both Sofia and Maya since they were kids.

Both of his daughters were more closer to their Uncle Ren than himself, but Mr Parker had no objection regarding this, in fact he felt glad that his two daughters could actually be provided with the love of a father; which he himself could not provide.

Even though he had a lot of expectations from Maya, and had practically given up on expecting anything from Sofia, both of them were, after all his precious daughters. No matter how much disappointed he might had been with Sofia, at the end of the day, she was still his little girl whom he wanted to dote on so much.

As Mr. Parker thought about these things, he had a rare gentle smile in his face, though it only lasted a few seconds, Ren had already witnessed it.

Ren knew more than anyone else how much his old friend; David wanted to show his love towards his daughters.

"Have a seat Maya.", Mr. Parker said as he looked at her with prideful eyes. He felt proud of Maya; his elder daughter....

He had felt so proud of her when she started doing part-time jobs for allowances on her own. He had felt so proud of her when she had gotten her first official job on her own.

He had felt so proud of her when he saw the first advertisement she appeared in after modeling; it was a pamphlet advertising for socks. She had done a socks advertisement during the summers! Need less to say, the ad did not gain much attention, but to support his daughter he had bought fifty pairs of socks and distributed them within is colleagues as a summer holiday gift!

And he was the proudest of Maya when she, after having so much on her plate and even facing his objection, did not falter in her passion nor her studies.

In reality, Mr. Parker did not have any major objections with her working in any industry, he would always try to support her anywhere she worked, but the modeling industry was one such industry where he did not want to send his daughter to. When in an interview she had given, she had disclosed that she belonged to a powerful family, he felt assured that now no one would try to bully his daughter.

Call him old-fashioned or narrow minded, he always felt that Maya may not be safe here or may get indulged in things she should not do. That was the reason he had felt that if he tied Maya with an arranged marriage from a good family, she might refrain from doing things she should not.

But Maya felt that it was as if he wanted to cage her and rebelled against him by getting a boyfriend. When he had heard that her boyfriend was some guy who also worked in the same industry he felt that they were in the same line of work and would understand each other better, but he still did not feel reassured as he knew that this line of work had a lot of impurities in it, he did not want his daughter to attract the same.

Who knew that years after her getting into a relationship, Maya would face the same thing he had feared of.

"I heard that he came out to be a cheater." Mr. Parker said as he looked at Maya.

Maya felt so ashamed of herself right now. After all it was she herself who had told her father that she will make Lucas into a successful man and make him his Son-in-law.

She didn't want to say that she regretted getting into a relationship with Lukas. She knew it, she had felt it.... The feelings in between them were genuine in the beginning. It's just that, she did not know that someday these feelings, which made her feel like the most beautiful woman on this planet, would come back to bite her in the end.

"I'm sorry, father. I have let you down." was all Maya could muster up and say.

"Anyways, bring the folder to me, we can read it now itself. Sofia told me that she thinks that Samartha is also involved in this." Mr. Parker said as he sadly looked at the room upstairs.