Simply Evil Minded.

Aiden supported Maya's back and whispered to her, "I am so sorry, I am late."

Although Maya had blinked her tears back, it did not stop her nose from turning red. When she looked back at him, Aiden could tell that she wanted to cry, but still wanted to maintain her pride... There was nothing wrong with it.

She had almost lost everything that she treasured in just few words, her pride was something that she wanted to clutch onto and not depart with.

"Hey A-" Maya was shocked when she saw him behind herself. She had just opened her mouth to address him when Aiden put his index finger on her lips to quieten her. Maya's eyes widened and she pulled her face back from his hand, it formed a cute little double chin on her face.

"Pfft! She's so cute!" Aiden laughed in his head, and pointed towards the ward door.

Maya understood that he was telling her to keep quiet and listen to their conversation.

"When I did not know that truth about 'that' you know, I really wanted a happy relationship with her." That was the last thing she had heard from Lucas. Right now his father was speaking.

"But you could have ended things in an orderly manner, couldn't you, why did you have to do it thorough such undesirable means?" He could not understand his son, was it not better to end things on a good note, it also made a possibility for turning things positive in the future, but now, there was no other option than parting ways.

"What would I have got out of it?" Lucas looked at his parents as if they had just said a joke. "You have been in contact with her since so long but you guys still don't understand her, do you?"

He knew that his parents were very simple minded. They directly acted on things that they thought would be beneficial for them, and would not think of the process as long as they believed that they would get an outcome.

It was precisely because of this that they kept on acting so much in front of Maya, even after knowing that she had a powerful background.

His father may show that he did not want to take part in all this, but in reality, he was the person who anticipated Maya providing for their family the most.

Then Lucas continued, "Maya likes to make a clean break from all the things she does, why do you think that she can lead the life of a successful businesswoman? It is because she checks off all the points and doesn't leave anything behind. If we had broken up for any reason, she would have straight away left me, if it were not for father's 'treatment',she might have not even talked to me.", He looked at his phone and asked, "Where is she though? When did she go out?"

"Oh Maya? She had left around ten minutes ago, there was no hot water here, so I had sent her to bring some." Mrs. Martin replied to him.

"Oh anyways, Maya's mother never liked me since the beginning, I did not know the reason until so many years, but I got to know about it recently." Lucas paused a bit.

Maya and Aiden who were standing outside also held their breath.

Even Maya did not know the reason her mother was always so repulsive toward Lucas, now and thought about it, was it because maybe she had foreseen that Lucas was not a good man?

Meanwhile Aiden also wanted to know the reason of why Mrs. Parker did not like Lucas. Of course it was not because he was concerned about him but because he wanted to know Lucas's fault so that he himself never made it.

Although he knew that for Maya, her mother's opinion did not matter, Aiden didn't want to overlook any possibility that would hinder the ties between Maya and him.

In the mean time Lucas, the person who had gained a huge amount of interest from the people who were hating him few moments ago, didn't know of anything and continued talking to his parents, "I don't know if I had told you about this before but, previously, Maya's father had arranged a marriage for her. She was only nineteen years old that year, so the other party and her father decided that Maya and whoever the other guy was, could get to know each other first and eventually both the families could come together."

"Yeah, I remember it, I think it was this reason that Maya wanted to find a boyfriend right?" Mr. Martin had always been aware of this fact and was low key happy about it, because if Maya had not rejected the other guy from a rich family even before meeting him, and had a fight with her father, Lucas could never have the chance of entering the scene.

"Hmm... so apparently, Maya's mother really wanted to join ties with that family. She didn't want Maya to go out with a 'poor' person like me." Lucas said.

Outside, Maya did not know how to react whereas Aiden sighed in relief, he had a plus point, and at least his family was very rich.

"She had always been keeping an eye on me, specially in the recent times because Maya had come to visit you guys. So after a long time of keeping watch on me, she finally contacted me and said that if I left Maya for good, she would give me some money."

"So for some meagre amount of money, you left a goldmine!?!" Mrs. Martin shouted in shock. Even Lucas's father aggressively nodded at that.

Lucas smirked as he observed the reactions from his parents. Maya had done so much for them, only to receive this? It was simply evil- minded.

"I am sure that she would have definitely used other ways to make me leave Maya, and those would definitely not be good. So instead I opted for getting caught like this. The amount of money transferred was a lot after that person stepped in." Lucas said seriously.

"What!?" Both Mr. Martin and Mrs. Martin were shocked as they heard that even those people were interested in this matter. If they had intervened here, it meant that 'they' had planned something. And even if, as Lucas' parents tried to stop him, Lucas would definitely not listen to them and act according to those people's orders.