His pea-sized brain!

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.