A man stood under a 40,000 crystal studded chandelier and smiled at the crowd as he raised his hand and for the vall to begin, as men moved forward and bent in front of their female partner as they forward their hands and asked them to join for dance.

There were every type of person mixed in crowd, some beautiful under the mask, some held the strings of the flask, some looking like the very jealous lover and some just looked around like new borns.

There were commoners holding dreams of climbing a high ladder of status, some trying to be Cinderella, while some just stayed out of the beautiful scenery as if suspecting every other person.

They knew what hides behind this serene stage made with crystals and shine with the best decor.

They were extremely happy to be just spectators.

As people with different opinion fought a war of indirect insults and funny laughter, some people were really just enjoying in the moment.

One such group of people stood in the insides of ballrooms as they hid behind pillars and laughed at joke of others and looked around at people lower than them in status finding them interesting enough to try and hold a conversation with them.

"Nandy, why try and hold a conversation no use to you with them?" A Girl looking as gorgeous as a night moon shining brightly in the darkness spreading a non verbal shine over everyone. She overshadowed millions in the crowd and there wasn't a tint of awareness in her bright red eyes. It makes people her age really mad...

"Kate, don't you see how interesting they all are? They have different likes than us and you know one of them also has a habit of holding her forefinger like me. Isn't it interesting and they are not all that different than us except we have a title and they don't." Nandini also called as Nandy by everyone answered while walking and moving her hands animating the scene.

Her hands wore the jewels bestowed to her because of her title as one of the duke's advisor and daughter.

Her feets glided on the tiled and polished floor with ease as if dancing and she moved around the ball with a confident grace as she bowed to some influential figures and they reciprocated her gesture.

There were very less people who deserved her bow but still, she was a young one in the crowd and has to bow to her elders causing that number of people increase.

She wore the insignia of her house on her neck while her high low gown showcased her beautiful frame. She too held the same confidence as her sister but hers was a more natural and simple beauty causing others to feel at ease.

It wasn't that she wasn't able to enchant people but rather she needs them at ease, so at ease that they would open all their secrets and let her hold them in her hand and crush them within a moment.

She wasn't an advisor in name but also in conduct. Her determined and hardworking has definitely caused a change of power in her family as her brothers who hold the right to be the heir apparent, has to bow to her in order to have her at their sides but her eyes saw through everything and anything.

She was prettily innocent to them, a mere beauty who holds power to change their fate with a few sentences. She was the one who held the strings to the fate of many people and wanted to make them feel it at every step.

She was ambitious but then, isn't it a waste to not hold them when you can fulfill them with your determination and hardwork.

"Kate, look at them, they hold the most knowledge of power because people with loose mouth will only ever babble to them. They think that these puny people can't do anything about them, only gossiping and treating themselves as nobles won't change anything but they are wrong."

Kate looked at her sister and sighed saying "you have always been a little snake, haven't you? Have fun learning them and call me for the show when you decide to hit those people hard."

Nandini nodded and took a glass of wine from one of the waiter when a guy held the wine glass she had in her hand.

"You shouldn't drink."

The voice was unbelievably mellow as if musical but the stingy feeling it gave her caused Nandini to look at her elder brother and loosened her grip over her glass.

"You know, it's pathetic how you choose to hide in shadows and only come out to irritate me."

"Sister, you know I prefer calm and quiet." Cale, one of her brother who she used to follow since young but because of his spinelessness she gave up on him.

"How about I give you an eternal calm and quiet, brother?" The sneer that was held in her greeting to him could make a man die from the bite but Cale wasn't a lesser man.

"No need dear sister, rather I would like to inform you about something." He stood up in a more straightened figure and leaned back from her as his aura that he hid increased in the surrounding causing people to become aware of himself.

People looked at him and felt his power, felt the dark slur it held and Nandini's smile widened with a lust appearing in her eyes.

A lust for again turning her brother into a power that would make the world shiver when they glance at the dukedom.

"So, are you willing to be on my side, sister?"

Cale bowed a little towards his little sister who smiled and laughed in a ladylike manner causing his smile to widen and a wonderfully dark aura to gather around the pair.

While the siblings laughed and merrily chatted, none noticed how a man was looking at them from the corner and suddenly the announcement of the prince and princess of the kingdom to enter the ball and perform the dance with a partner of their own choice.