FF: Seducing the Throne::NEW Thread PG 1 - Page 31

I love how youve interweaved the two families together. It's so easy imagining them to be old friends.

Oh, you have written it magnificently! I love it:D

i dont remember if ive ever commented on this..but oh man i am soo in love with this GG and ipkknd mash up...though im not an avid follower of gg whatever little i've seen i've always rooter for chuck and blair...lovinggg it! continue soon!:)

ooh sum1z in trouble...lookin forward to it...thnx 4da pm

amazing update girl!!!😃
so damien did come to know that she was Aasha RAIZADA!!!😉

Now this is really getting very interesting, can't wait to see more secrets unfold. I'm quite impatient to read the next update.

Chapter Eight

-The Princess and the Peacock-

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Chuck Bass was a man who defined ruthlessness.

In fact he had quite perfected it to a point where it was very nearly an art-form.

Not that anyone presently standing anywhere near The Empire's main bar would guess that little tid-bit just then. Standing upright with what looked like a well-dressed diminutive bouncing snow-angel, with her arms wrapped around him, while he pressed a fatherly kiss to her forehead, he looked more like a formidable father than a ruthless international business magnate.

It was in fact a good five minutes before Chuck was able to extract himself from his only god-daughter's vise like grip, with a stern, "We need to talk."

Aasha who had momentarily forgotten all about her present predicament had the grace to look abashed sliding into what was her father's seats moments ago as she asked in a hushed whisper, "Did you speak to Dad, Buba?"she asked using her childhood name for her God-father as she tended to when she knew she was in trouble.

Chuck who was still wondering what she had been doing in Damien's room of all things, since when did she know he was in New York?

Not to mention that social climber of a fiance she'd managed to attach to herself not days ago. Dear Lord, just the thought of Arnav's reaction to finding out about her engagement was enough to make him wish he could throttle whoever had leaked the news to the press and Gossip Girl. Someone on his payroll was going to be jobless for the rest of their natural life.

"I talked to him princess, and trust me he is NOT happy. What were you thinking?" he asked with a consideration he reserved for only a handful of people.

Aasha grimaced uncomfortably, as she tried to explain ' "Last night '.I was a little drunk'and honestly I don't remember much, all I remember was being on the roof and the next thing I knew I'd woken up in'"

"Damien's room." Chuck summarized, as he realized with a jolt exactly who must've leaked the news to Gossip Girl.

"Who?" squealed Aasha, wincing at her own pitch, as she jerked up in her seat.

Immediately as if summoned their cumulative thoughts, a smothering silence draped over the room, as Aasha's squeak of a question was offset by a solemn, "Well, well, well...look what the cat dragged in." directed at her.

But before Aasha could summon up a suitably condescending retort to her would be stalker-stranger, who was looking at her with an unholy gleam in his eye, he looked deliberately away from her, instead looking directly at her God-father who would cheerfully kick his behind the second she let told him exactly how he'd been harassing her, and with a short nod and a quirk of his lips that looked oddly familiar once again, said one word that rooted Aasha to her seat,

"Father."

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Aasha Singh Raizada was not normally prone to fits or hysterics of any kind.

But today was definitely about to be the exception to her usual rule...until that is, she saw the smug smirk he leveled in her direction, as she stiffly sat up perfectly straight in her chair.

Silently consigning him to the heretofore unexplored depths of hell, she turned pointedly away.

An act of cool defiance not lost on her observant god-father

In a tone he rarely if ever used around his much adored god-daughter, he quietly stated in a voice that brooked nothing but compliance, "So, I presume Damien that you have an explanation for this?"

Damien who was more attuned to Aasha at the moment, taking in all the changes the six years had wrought, probing with his silent gaze for any similarities with the teenager he'd once known, barely heard his father until he cleared his voice and repeated the question with brutal authority.

Damien nearly smiled.

Of course.

Chuck Bass may be his father but when it came to this particular young lady, his father was immovable. Aasha Raizada had always been in a completely different realm, a lot like he had been for her mother ironically, a factor he'd used to his advantage many times.

And one she from the looks of it was about to use to her own advantage.

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Not a lot of people would even in their wildest imaginations, think of giving Arnav Singh Raizada a dressing down.

Unfortunately for him, his wife was not one of those many people.

What was worse was that she didn't have to. Khushi Kumari Gupta Singh Raizada, giving him the silent treatment, on the phone none the less, was enough to make him want to clobber himself.

"Baby, it's not that big a deal, I'm dealing with it."

"You still don't get it do you?!" suddenly blasted the voice down the other end of the line, "It's not your problem to deal with!!

It's ours.

Aasha is OUR daughter if something is going on I need to know, and I'm sick of you trying to shield me from every little thing Arnav, I'm not made of glass ...and YOU are not a chaadi wearing superhero!"

Arnav winced, the grain of truth, amidst all his wife's ranting grating on him.

She was right he couldn't shield her from everything, but he sure as hell would not have her worrying over Aasha's antics, not now, not when Blair was pregnant and he knew she was reliving every moment of her first pregnancy, even if she refused to talk to him about it.

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The very thought of Aasha using something to her advantage made him want to shake his head. She'd always been angelic looking, but hell now, she looked so damn virtuous in her white cropped top and beige slacks, it was nearly impossible to reconcile her with the self-same woman who'd walked out of his hotel suite in lingerie and walked away from him moment he'd taunted her phone in hand on the sidewalk.

Bloody Hell.

Silently weighing his options as he, tried to figure out exactly how much his father knew about last night and this morning, he shrugged casually out of his overcoat, and undid the button to his suit, simultaneously motioning for a waiter to bring over a chair.

He had only just settled himself into his seat when he saw Aasha's father step back into the room, his face a mask of controlled anger, and the slightest sliver of pain.

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"Well...I'm glad we're all here." Said Arnav, his voice a damning cool that rarely boded well for anyone.

He could see Aasha cringe visibly as he came into view, he nodded briefly at Damien wondering what it was he was doing here. For the moment however he was more concerned with his daughter, walking around to the other side of the booth where a prudent waiter had quickly materialized a chair, he didn't miss Chuck's pointed look as he seated himself, while saying in a voice so low it was almost as if he were speaking to himself-

"I'm going to be very, very lenient with you darling and give you the benefit of doubt and assume that you young lady, have a very good no-excuses reason behind your present predicament."

His eyes never moving from his daughter's deliberately blank countenance, he watched silently as she darted a brief glare at Damien, before turning to face him and with a deep breath firmly announced.

"I'm engaged."

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If it was possible at all to have a heart attack at twenty-five years of age, Damien Bass, would most definitely be in severe need of medical attention right now.

As it was he was merely thankful he had yet to take a sip of the drink the waiter had brought him moments earlier.

Engaged?

Since when was six years long enough to bloody get engaged?

And then with a hard glare at her cool facade that she still refused to allow to crack, to who?

That milk-sop that had been on the roof-top with her?

Either way, he decided, as he heard his uncle's dangerous drawl, if six years was long enough for her to get herself engaged, it sure as hell was long enough for her to get over a petty grudge, and he was though with playing the gentleman, "Are you trying to tell me," he heard Aasha's father enunciate with exacting preciseness, "Your no-excuses-explanation for how it is you are in the present predicament of having walked out of this hotel, in a state of tabloid documented indecency, is that you are engaged? And you were what leaving your fiance's room?"

And like a bolt of lightning right out of Zeus's own hand, it was as if the fates had handed Damien the perfect opportunity, schooling himself in to a look of innocent practicality, he interrupted Aasha's, floundering explanation with, - "Well, if it helps, she didn't spend the night with her fiance if that's what you're thinking uncle..." He drawled.

His eyes fixed on Aasha's shocked own, he continued,"'...she spent it with me."

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Hey Upper East Sider's, Gossip Girl here.

Your one and only source into the scandalous lives of Manhattan's Elite.

Oh my indeed'Darling Bass it seems knows exactly who his Lady in Red is.

A fact the Lady in question doesn't seem too happy about. Looks like Little Red-Riding Hood, isn't very fond of her big bad Bass.

One is forced to wonder what has her so uptight about it?

Is Red worried he may want to bite? Or that he won't?

You know you love me.

XOXO

Gossip Girl

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Chappie goes out to my midnight Dodokin and Sesky Somossa😳

Check out C. Bass's nickname courtesy of Aasha darling.

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