014 - Outsmarted

The Woods Family mansion.

3:47 pm.

“Sir, the young miss is back.”, the family butler informed Senior Woods, Nova’s father with a bow.

Senior Woods, who was going through some papers on his work desk did not look up, but he acknowledged the information with a “hmm”.

He was glad that Nova, who had always been strong-headed and difficult to control had listened to him this time. He hoped that his dream of establishing a business relationship with the most powerful family in the country would finally be realized using his daughter.

It was only by sheer luck that he had found out through one of his connections that the old matriarch of the Sanchez family was contacting high-standing socialite families in the city, trying to set up a relationship between his beloved grandson and the daughters of those families.

Setting up a meeting with Lazarus Sanchez had been extremely difficult, and even after various attempts to connect with the old man, he was appointed to meet up with the family’s b