191 A hidden camera (1/2)

Grace's task was to get her to the club and drug her before sending her to a hotel room. Hence she was ready with all the lies and acts to take Ava Kelly with her.

”You won't come? Ava” She cried, ”I am doing all this for you. How long are you going to cry for that bastard who ditched you on the wedding day?” Grace didn't think twice to call Vance a bastard cause she was angry at him too.

'Cry for that bastard?' Ava knew it was Vance Hays. She wanted to say she wasn't the least bit sad or hurt due to him. From beginning to end, she only did everything for her parents.

For Ava, Vance was a total stranger compared to his grandfather or mother. Vance hardly spoke to her other than saying she doesn't look good in whatever she chose else he used to stay silent.

Ava always tried to start a general conversation while shopping but hearing him say no to everything she liked, she had just picked what he had pointed so that her parents would be happy.

After it, Ava didn't know what to talk to Vance so she used to think about her work even when they traveled in the same car or sat for dinner or lunch. Hence how could she be sad when the man never made a place in her life other than sweetly saying what she should do. Anyhow those sweet words also didn't make space in her heart.

Grace, who had assumed Ava loved Vance Hays and she had successfully snatched him away from Ava, continued to flatter her. ”It's his loss, not yours. Your parents are just angry, they will be fine. So let's cheer your mood. I want my smiling happy Ava back.”

'Happiness?' When was she truly happy for herself? Ava had no recollection of it other than silently crying in her rooms.

Her facade of a smile is what everyone knows so she assumed she again has to be Little Ava who smiled hiding her all the pain, who smiled just so nobody worries for her, who smiled so that her parents don't call her jinx, who smiled because other one smiles too.

Now Ava will smile because she doesn't want others to know she has broken down. She will smile because she has to be strong. She will smile to keep her problems to herself and face the people.

Grace saw her breath out loudly and smiled. That smile which holds the attention of the viewer, that smile which was filled with gentleness and kind shimmering her black orbs.

Grace's lips twitched to ask 'Were you acting before?' Ava nowhere looked like a bride whose groom didn't reach the wedding hall but was happy.

'Is it so easy to move on? I will do everything to wipe off that smile. Ava Kelly, you just wait and see.' Grace Wells was resolute on destroying Ava by taking proofs of her with the old hag ravishing her.

Without letting Ava to turndown again, ”Please, please… I want to see you enjoy the evening like how you do with those new friends.” She meant Shawn and Dax.

Ava Kelly shook her head resignedly, ”They aren't new. They are my friends.” Ava knew Grace doesn't like Dax and Shawn but she had assumed it was because Grace thinks those two are closer to Ava.

But the fact was, Ava Kelly was actually close to Dax and Shawn who sees through her fake smiles and never forces her to be what she is not or never forces her to smile when she isn't cheerful at all. Instead, they would do all the drama to make her laugh while accepting her every side.

”Whatever, you are coming with me and that's final.” Grace grumpily said knowing it works on Ava.

Grace doesn't like Dax because he had directly shown his disgust towards her and Shawn, she had tried to get near him from the time she saw him with Ava but he ignored Grace like an invisible insect around Ava.

Ava breathed a sigh and wore the copper brown short dress that reached above her knees. It was in an A-line dress hugging her waist and spread below. The boat neck pattern was just below her collarbones but the center of the neckline had a sharp V slit that reached her cleavage but didn't look sloppy or revealing due to her proportioned bosoms fitting in perfectly in the corset of the dress.

Ava quickly blow-dried her hair and stood up while Grace was grinding her teeth. She wanted Ava to look flaunting yet gross but didn't expect her to look graceful and elegant.

Grace knew Ava won't wear exposing clothes hence she chose deep V but it adorned her slender body as though the dress was made for her. To ruin her look to avoid adoring gazes on Ava, she tried, ”Ava, makeup… I will do…”

However, Ava turned down by cutting in, ”Nope, I don't want any makeup.” Ava never fancied make-up or liked to look flashy or perfect. She was comfortable in her skin and didn't want to impress anyone so again she turned down when Grace tried.

”The dresses are compulsory for girls to the club and I am wearing it. If you say makeup, I won't go with you to the club.” Ava Stubbornness won hence Grace's plan to make her look inviting to the lecherous eyes failed.

At the Club,