Alluring Masquerade

Chapter 59 - Sometimes ... It's Just Delusion.

          Mrs. Xavier, Kael's mother, was talking pleasantly with Sonia McRose from the past thirty minutes. She was enjoying the young girl's company so much that she was impressed, and that was something very hard to get out of her. Sonia's beauty, style, and etiquette were perfect for the Xavier's status by her standards. The girl had everything that she wanted in her daughter-in-law for her son, Kael.

          "Thank you dear," Kael's mother smiled, and took the cup of tea and saucer from Sonia's hands. Indeed, she is very well mannered, she thought observantly. Her brown eyes darkened surreptitiously, Unlike Hira Kaif. She doesn't deserve my son! Now, Sonia... She paused to glance back at the smiling Sonia, she is someone perfect for my Kael. They will be perfect together. Sonia and Kael will make a beautiful couple.

          Sonia reached across to the coffee table, picked up the plate of handmade biscuits and held it in front of Kael's mother. "Would you like a biscuit, Madam?" she asked amiably.

          Kael's mother laughed behind her hand. "You're offering me tea and biscuits in my own house?" she asked, but did not mean any menace. She was in fact admiring the young girl's courteousness. This only made her decision to make her and Kael fall in love stronger. I need to find out more about Sonia McRose.

          Sonia smiled at the older woman. "I apologise for any nuisance," she replied modestly, and added a single biscuit on the saucer, next to the hot cup.

          "Not at all," Kael's mother smiled, and sipped her tea. She rested the cup on the saucer on her left hand and studied Sonia. "I must say, you're a striking young lady Sonia," she complimented.

          Sonia put her right hand on her heart – while her own cup of tea rested in her left – and acted innocently. "I am no where as striking as you are, Mrs. Xavier," she complimented back. "Being your age, you're still the most stunning lady I've ever seen."

          Ah, she played that card well, Kael's mother mocked silently, however, she was only more impressed by the quickness of Sonia. She reminds me of a younger, much innocent me. "Oh, well," she patted her hair, barely touching it, "I am very strict about taking care of myself." She couldn't but feel pleased.

          "Madam..." Sonia hesitated.

          "Yes?"

          "I wondered if I could ask you something ... about Kael?" Sonia asked carefully. She waited a moment and got the encouragement to ask away. "Is he seeing someone?"

          "He is not," Kael's mother answered without hesitation. I knew it, she thought smugly, Sonia McRose is also interested in Kael. This will only make my intentions easy for her to see and clearer, for my message to get across without ... being the first one to implement it.

          "What?" Sonia was truly confused now, but she replaced that by a blank expression quickly. "I see," she nodded and sipped her tea.

          A short pause lingered in the ambience for at least a minute.

          It was soon broken by the cup sitting back on its saucer with an audible 'clinking' noise. "Why the interest?" she inquired.

          "Because," Sonia responded almost instantly, and looked at the older lady, "I am interested in him. You know that I have always been in his life since childhood. I am in love with him, Madam. That is why I wanted to be sure he was not seeing any other girl."

          "I see," Kael's mother nodded, and looked away to set the cup and saucer on the coffee table in front of them. When she looked back over to Sonia, her eyes sparkled in acknowledgement.