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2025-04-21 23:45:23"Our parents? Our parents are here." She was a hundred percent sure that he was messing with her because why on earth would her father, who was always busy, leave his day and come to meet her there? It was practically impossible.
"You sound as if I am lying? Why would I come up to your room just to lie to you?" From his expression, she could tell that he did not like being called a liar and it was almost convincing but she could not bring herself to accept that their parents would be there. Both parents were so busy with their daily lives that it was almost impossible to think they would come there.
"I have no idea; maybe this is a form of prank or entertainment for you," she said.
He took a deep breath and crossed his hand over his chest and tried to cover the distance between them but she took a step back. He opened his mouth to speak but before he could say anything, another voice cut through the aur.
"Lila? Are you going to keep us waiting? What is taking you both so long?" Lila satred in amsusment because she knew the voice even if she was sleeping already.
"My mom?" she mouthed to him with no sound coming out of her mouth.
"Yeah," he nodded with his lips in a thin line and a 'I told you so' expression on his face.
"What are they doing here?" she continued trying to mouth so she did not make a sound because she felt like her mother was going to brage in on them at anytime.
"I don't know; maybe the rumours are going around," he said and she nodded because that made sense. Her parents might be so worried about it that they had to come here by themselves. She walked to the door and he followed behind her as they got down. 321`
When they both got down, they saw both parents sitting on opposite sides of the couch; they were not saying anything, but she could feel the tension in the air as both men stared at each other. Sge cleared her throat and their gazes on each other dropped. Both women turned to them. Levi sat down and Lila's eyes travelled through the room. She decided to stand because she did not want to sit beside Levi and that was the only sofa left in the living room.
"Sit," Williams said and Lila knew that was not up for a debate and she did not want to go back and forth with him in the presence of the Beaumont's so she lowered herself to the sofa, making sure she was squashed to one side and at the edge of the chair.
"I have to say I am very disappointed in you both; I thought you were mature enough to do this simple task," Daniel started. Lila was tempted to roll her eyes at him. "I mean, did you have to go out when you knew what was at stake?" he continued.
Lila looked to Levi, hoping he would say something but his head was hung low and if he was creating like that for his father, then she was not sure if she stood a chance.
"Blaming the children for their mistake isn't the way forward," Eleanor said. Lila knew her mother well enough to know that this was not a defence for her but instead she just wanted to get out of sitting in the same room with them and for them to do so, they settled on a solution.
"I hate to say this but I agree with Eleanor," Catherine replied as she stressed Eleanor's name.
"Well, I think the best thing for them to do now is to just go on a real honeymoon." Lila knew that they agreed to do that but somehow hearing her father suggest it did not sit well with her but she could not contend with it.
"I agree with that and think they should make sure that the press sess them as they are on their way to the airport; we can leak the information and say that they wanted the stress from the wedding to wear off a bit before they travelled," Daniel said. Levi sat there and wondered why his father had not trusted him to handle it. The exact thing he had wanted to do was what they had come up with.
"I think that is perfect so we should settle on that," William replied.
"They would be going to my private island and I have arranged for a few selected media persons to be there with them for two weeks." Lila wanted to disagree; she thought they would have the option of choosing where they wanted to go and that it would be a private moment for them but it was obvious that this was supposed to be a publicist stunt for them both.
Daniel turned in their direction and stared at them both. "You know that it means right?"
"We can't do that, sir." Lila was the first to speak. She could not act in love with Levi for two weeks. She did not like him that much to think of acting in front of the media for that long; if she tried, they would be discovered before the end of two days.
"You have no choice but to do this," Williams announced. Lila turned to him shocked that he was in on this too.
'How do..." Lila trailed off by the strong gaze that her mother threw her way. "You have no choice," she moythed to her.
"All of this won't have to happen if you both had stayed home." Catherine said, standing up, and as if on cue, everyone there stood up as well and walked to the door. Lila sat there watching them walk away. Levi stood up and followed them out.
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