The Traps of Black Swan

Aware of the tricks that could be carried out behind her back, Aarvi who entered the adjacent room recreated her dress back to the short bodycon dress, swept her hair to the right side, and put on an elegant smile brimmed with confidence.

She sent a message to Milo Wen before going out to Vance Hays\'s luxury hospital room.

"Son, were you out of your mind? Why did you accept to fight with that man? Your Dad told me that he purposefully stood against us so that we lose the EBony project." Madam Hays\'s heart ached for her son.

However, Master Hays who was going through the new project proposal had a bright triumph smile on his face, "Your hard work still paid off. This proposal is tailored to us. We should get this at any cost. Who is the girl again? When will she and her team contact us?"

Vance Hays was working on his laptop normally. He had just received bruises on his face and a tiny fracture to bones, it was nothing serious to stay at the hospital but his mother and unwanted fiancee were making it a huge deal.

Libby was in a self-designed body-hugging dress, sitting next to the bed, cutting apples after lunch like a lady of a good background girl who wasn\'t capable of evil things carrying a gentle smile on her face.

But for Vance Hays, she was a witch meant to be kept away, far away. He let her sit because of his parents else he would have thrown her out by now.

Hearing his father asking about Ms. Evans, he didn\'t want them to meet her. "Dad, I will handle the project, please stop grandfather meddling till we get their approval for our plan and team."

Master Hays who is working as Vice President had the power to sign a project and seal the deal so he wanted to personally take care of the foreign business associate if in case Vance fails to manage it till the end. "You should take rest and recover. I will contact the team and deal with this."

Vance\'s fingers trembled on the keyboard, even though they didn\'t like Ava Kelly in the past, they didn\'t really dislike her due to the Kelly background. When Ava\'s father thought he could use the Hays family for strengthening his position, the Hays family wanted to use Ava for getting all the resources from Kelly International because President Kelly, Ava\'s grandfather doted on Ava more than his own son and grandson.

Hence when Vance didn\'t go to the wedding venue, Grandfather Kelly had announced that he would make sure Hays International would suffer terribly. To divert his fury away from them, his parents forced Vance to frame Ava for his absence.

They were successful and President Kelly became helpless but their next plan to have Ava as his mistress to get Kelly International resources failed miserably. Seeing Ms. Evans having the face of Ava, he wasn\'t sure how his parents might react so it was better if they stayed away.

"Ms. Evans is a busy woman, her team will contact us and she will handle remotely." Vance hoped to hear his father agree and not hatch anything to get the richer woman to their side.

Just then a mellow voice sounded at the door, "Unexpected! I hear my name before stepping in."

Without seeing the door, Vance back stiffened, and felt his hair rise, \'Ava Kelly?!\'

Libby checked at the door, made an uninterested face looking at the plainclothes of the girl. Measuring by the outfit, she assumed that the girl might be working at Hays company without understanding what she meant by her words.

Libby didn\'t feel threatened by her appearance because even though both had an hourglass figure, Libby had amazing deep curves than her. \'Men like it huge.\' Libby thought.

Master and Madam Hays jerked up looking at the girl at the door, Simple clothes definitely reminded more of Ava but her serenity and composition looked mature for her appearance. Vance raised his head to see Ms. Evans and couldn\'t understand why her dialect is of country A.

Aarvi continued before they couldn\'t speak, "Did I sound odd? I am trying to learn." Now her dialect was perfect country S just as perfect as country A\'s dialect.

Master and Madam Hays looked at each other hearing the foreign accent. The latter turned to Vance without understanding what was going on, she caught her son staring at the lady and was taken aback. "Ava..."

She uttered out but Vance came to his senses hearing the name, "Ms. Evans, please come inside..." He didn\'t let his mother and father speak anything about Ava and continued to speak as he got off the bed, "Mom, Dad, she is Ms. Evans." Then he turned to Aarvi who walked inside at snail\'s pace watching the faces who had smeared her image, "Ms. Evans, my parents."

Madam Hays was still in a stupor, Master Hays forced himself to calm down by looking at her top to toe. He had expected an old or elder lady but not such a young woman. He glanced at Libby who was scowling at Vance and at the elegant lady walking inside, his hunger for wealthiness overtook his dirty mind.

He beamed extending his hand, "Ms. Evans, I have heard a lot about you. I am pleased to meet you."

Aarvi\'s serenity morphed to slight disgust looking at his hand with her ambiguous tone sounding in the room, "Hello..."

Madam Hays turned grim looking at her reaction and her husband\'s retracting hand in the air, "What does your action mean?" She failed to hide her tone similar to her expression.

Vance, "Mom." Even though he objected to Aarvi\'s reaction, they couldn\'t offend her.

Aarvi looked at them controlling herself from rolling her eyes, they had given far worse expressions to her. Nevertheless, she wasn\'t capable of falling to their level, "Don\'t you know you are full of filthy germs and bacteria? They will cause many diseases by passing onto me."

"You-" Madam Hays was enraged without clearly understanding Aarvi\'s words and whinged to her son and father, "How dare she call us dirty?" The pride of being Hays was ruling in her head.

Libby who was sitting quickly held Madam Hays like a filial daughter-in-law, "Mom, it\'s alright. No need to get angry at nobody." She didn\'t know who Ms. Evans is.

Vance wanted to throw Libby out whereas Master Hays disregarded their soon-to-be daughter-in-law and wife, "Ms. Evans, I am sorry for these women\'s behavior, please have a seat."

Aarvi politely rejected purposefully ignoring women, "No, thank you." She wasn\'t a fool not to understand how and why he ignored his wife and Libby, "I came to meet my boyfriend so just dropped in to ask about Mr. Hays recovery."

"Boyfriend?" Master Hays uttered thinking he was losing his chance.

\'Ahem,\' Vance coughed lightly to distract away from the topic. He was the heir of the Hays family, so he accurately knows what his father was thinking. "Thank you for coming, Ms. Evans. I am fine." Opposite to his composure, he was weirdly happy thinking she was there to ask about his health.

That she could see, the black eyes and swollen jaws weren\'t there after a good rest. She came to the main point, "Make sure that your company stays the same or gets better in market statistics. If it falls due to any reason before we sign the project, the deal will be called off."

Master Hays and Vance looked at each other. They weren\'t doing well after losing the Ebony project hence they were kind of sure they couldn\'t fall lower than what they were now. 

Vance responded with a faint smile completely forgetting Dax\'s threat, "Thank you for the heads-up, Ms. Evans."

Just then they heard a knock on the door and a blurry man in black gear entered the room, "Ms. Evans" Aarvi nodded in acknowledgment and pointed at Vance.

Vance took the white lilies bouquet hesitantly and glanced at the other three who were red in anger. The complete white Lillies is presented to the dead person, it represents the restored innocence of the departed soul hence it undoubtedly brought hatred towards Aarvi.

To top it off, she was in plain black as though she was there for mourning igniting their fury. Well, her black dress always represents the mourn for the people who hurt her in the past and she purposefully asked to get pure white Lilies to wish them bad luck.

Were they expecting good wishes? Tsk.

Libby saw Madam and Master Hays fuming in rage and Vance hesitant hence she seized the chance to show herself as rightful and stands for the family. She grabbed the Lilies bouquet from Vance\'s hand and threw it on Aarvi gnashing her teeth with her tone piercingly high. "How dare you..."

\'Pak\' The bodyguard stood between Aarvi and Libby and swung his hand without any mercy. 

The standard rule, if Aarvi allowed any bodyguard to stand by her side, they have to be on high alert and have no mercy on others.

\'Now it\'s time to choose.\' Aarvi thought curious whose side Vance and his father will take, money or soon-to-be daughter-in-law, Aarvi or Libby, Project or nothing.