Before gan could reach the ladies, a woman wearing a pink fascinator made a wild guess, "Could it be…" She created a second of mystery looking at all and continued, "...Madam Rivas also interested in Aarvi Evans? Who will say no to her handso Princes?"
Another woman sighed dramatically, "My daughter saw President Rivas at the Mirage and she has been crazy over him and torturing her father since that day."
A lady chortled with her fingers covering her mouth, then she probed, "Why don't you ask Madam Rivas?"
"You should call her to et Madam Rivas, you might not get a better chance." Another lady chid in with her suggestion.
"Yeah, if not the elder, the young son is sweeter." The lady ant Shawn was sweeter because they saw him handsoly smile.
gan really wanted to say, 'My sons will never look at your daughters.' But rembering her younger son was still single, she dropped her thoughts.
gan had reached pretty close to them, thanking the manager for escorting her when she heard a lady say, "Only if your daughter could win on Aarvi Evans." She laughed, kind of looking down on the daughter of a lady.
The other lady rolled her eyes before smiling at gan. Most of them greeted gan in unison, "Madam Rivas!"
About twenty ladies' eyes were surveying gan from top to toe. A few gulped their gasps and wondered how expensive each piece of item was. The ones who felt they were in the expensive piece of clothes and ornants, unknowingly felt inferior. Not just that, gan's small face and flawless skin had the sa attention.
gan brushed her eyes around as she faintly smiled at all, "Hello… I guess I am late." And she was purposefully late.
A lady in a floral dress went closer to gan and held her both hands' fingers, "We didn't know Madam Rivas would honor us today. Otherwise, we would have definitely waited."
"Madam Taylor." gan returned the fake smile. Madam Taylor guided her to the group and rembered, "I guess, many of us here are eting Madam Rivas for the first ti. I will take the honor."
gan was an audience to the exaggeration of many ladies. She managed to briefly shake their hands and flash them a smile hearing the complints. She tried to be polite and praise back until they stopped at Maisie Burnett.
"Looking at you two, I feel like there is a beauty competition going on." So said hiding the hint of insecurity.
Maisie behaved politely and smiled at the lady in the reservation, "Madam Stanley, you are too polite, how can I be compared to Madam Rivas?"
gan's eyes stayed on Maisie. Maisie was natural, it was hard to know if she was acting unless you see her eyes that tell a different story. There was smugness and envy.
Maisie stood up and introduced herself as she gently shook gan's hand. "Madam Rivas, It was a pleasure eting you. I am Maisie Burnett, wife of Shane Kelly."
Everyone knew gan, so she hadn't introduced herself for so long. Now, she made a little effort, "Doctor gan Wilson, Senior dermatologist at Rivas Skincare."
Even though she sounded polite, the ladies snickered at Maisie. It was obvious gan ntioned her own identity instead of showing pride in taking her husband's na.
Maisie clenched her teeth hard and forced a smile. She was entitled to holding a virtuous woman title so she wasn't ready to ruin it.
gan pretended to be shocked, "Oh my!" She copied their exaggeration, "I was so enthralled in your beauty Madam Kelly, I didn't focus what I was saying." She flashed an apologetic smile at Maisie for making her feel insulted and gave another introduction, "gan Rivas, wife of Karsen Rivas."
Maisie felt like it was on purpose but gan had no reason to insult her so she believed gan was envious of her superficial beauty.
Whereas a few ladies weren't dumb, the ones who knew gan doesn't fancy tea parties or gossiping knew she had a reason behind her presence. They looked at each other slowly trying to think what might have happened for Kelly to clash with Rivas. Kelly was dood to lose so they stayed low to know what was up.
Madam Taylor wanted to enjoy the show slowly so she shifted gan's focus to other ladies. After a whole ten minutes, gan took a seat with Madam Taylor, slightly away from Maisie.
A lady asked excitedly, "Madam Rivas, are you also interested to know about President Evans? We don't know much about her."
gan took a sip of her tea, "Aarvi?" she purposefully took the first na of Aarvi, "She is my son… Shawn's best friend."
All gasped and started bombarding her with many questions. gan didn't really hear them but had a faint smile. They were boring a hole to her eardrums.
As the questions built up, Maisie's back was stiff as a rock with two nas ringing in her head. Dax Grant, Shawn Rivas. Both were Ava Kelly's best friends. She only knew Ava Kelly had two best friends and there was no other girl.
The beads of sweat started appearing on her forehead, afraid that her nightmare might co true. 'What if Aarvi Evans is that jinx? But that jinx is dead. It's not possible…' The fight in her mind was a ss.
gan discreetly kept her focus on Maisie's reaction. All she heard was that Maisie and Shane Kelly blad Aarvi when Vance Hays didn't go to the wedding and threw Aarvi out when she went ho.
gan realized she knew nothing about how Aarvi was being treated by her parents. Why would they bla Aarvi for Vance's absence?
gan cued her bodyguard who was standing at a good distance. She pretended to be brushing her hair while acting as 'call .'
And within a few seconds, the questions ended due to the ringing of the mobile. gan flashed an apologetic smile and pulled her mobile out from the clutch. Checking the screen, "Work call, please, excuse ." She stood up and went aside.
She was quick to end the call of her bodyguard and dial Shawn's number.
anwhile, the ladies who maintained pin-drop silence till gan went aside suddenly buzzed at the new information they got about Aarvi Evans.
Aarvi Evans and Shawn are best friends so Shawn, Aarvi, and Dax are best friends. Hence Aarvi is really young, might be aged twenty-four as the other two. Not just them, they dropped ssages to their families.
It started to spread like wildfire and soon news blogs, social dia posts were started preparing, [Is President Evans really Twenty-Four?]
The more things linked to Ava Kelly, Maisie was losing her cool. Her hands were trembling when she ssaged Shane Kelly as Dax and Shawn were friends of Aarvi Evans and they should stay away from Aarvi else Dax would fry them out in boiling oil.
Another hand, Shawn answered the call on the third ring, "Mom, I got your attention away from your GiggleMug." Shawn mused.
Anyway, gan was serious, "Shawn, brief everything about Gigglemug's mother in less than a minute." Karsen's assistant had given her the outlook of Maisie but not the real Maisie.
Shawn was shocked hearing his mother, he took a second to confirm he heard right. Then the ti started, "Drunk and one-night stand. Parents forced them to marry. She wished nothing but the death of Little heart before the baby was born. She dread off to be a movie queen and blad Little Heart for everything. There wasn't a single day she behaved like a mother. She beat, bruised, cursed, locked, starved Little Heart every other day. It was multiplied when she assud Little Heart might beco President of Kelly International."
He took less than half a minute to brief the worst side of Maisie Burnett in a single breath. He slowly breathed trying to calm himself. Then he realized he didn't hear anything from the other end, "Mom… Mom… are you there? Mom…."
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