Is this destiny?

Sarah and Aiden finished dinner and cleaned up the table.

"Are you ready for the desert?", he asked with a playful smile on his face.

Sarah was not sure if it was his expression, or his deep voice, or the sound of wood crackling in the fireplace, or the atmosphere of the two of them in the cottage… or maybe all of it together… but she felt her cheeks warm up and she wondered, is she blushing or did she get a fever?

She dashed from the kitchen to the sofa in front of the fireplace. Aiden was right behind her.

"Where are you going?", he touched her chin, making her look up to him.

His face lit up when he saw Sarah bashfully avoiding his gaze.

"Are you OK?", he asked teasingly.

Sarah took a deep breath and tried to analyze her behavior. "I'm not sure. I guess it was a long time since it was just the two of us, with no one else nearby. And I am a bit… nervous."

Aiden kissed her lightly on the lips and leaned to whisper close to her ear: "What are you nervous about?"

Sarah trembled from his proximity and her anticipation. "I…"

Her words were interrupted by Eve: "Five people are approaching cabin at the speed of 20 kilometers per hour. At their current speed, they will reach you in two minutes and seven seconds."

Aiden gave her a quick kiss and showed displeasure that they are interrupted. "Your answer will need to wait."

"Eve…", Sarah called while tapping her earpiece. "Are these the same people from this afternoon?"

Eve confirmed.

"What do you want to do?", Aiden asked Sarah.

Sarah looked outside in the darkness and saw that the snowfall is picking up. She frowned. "The drones will handle them if they dare to come here."

"We have four outside, right?"

"Yes. That will be enough… but let's add few inside just in case.", Sarah moved toward the backpack with drones.

…

About half an hour later…

Sarah and Aiden are in the cabin, facing five people. Four are unconscious and the fifth one is waking up. They picked the one which was speaking to them when they were working on their snowman since it seems that he is the leader. Sarah gave him a dose of the truth serum before waking him up.

Sarah and Aiden didn't want to engage into a fight, so they waited to see what these five people will do. They surrounded the cabin and when they were ready to break in, drones took them out. They are heavily clothed, so Eve got drones to shoot in their face, taking advantage of the small gap between their goggles and scarves. Two men didn't have gaps, so the medicine-projectile went through the scarf. It worked.

"Why did you come back?", Aiden asked the man.

"We are investigating all suspects who earlier today attacked the underground base up the mountain.", he responded.

"All suspects? How many cabins you visited before ours?", Sarah asked.

"You are the first one and we have three more cabins after yours. We are on a mission to check all cabins which have two or more people in them and to retrieve the map."

Aiden noticed that the man vaguely spoke like he is unsure what they are looking for. "What kind of map?"

The man shrugged. "There was a map in the safe and it's missing. I don't know what kind of map that was. But it was something important because higher-ups sent us to retrieve it with highest priority and to eliminate any witnesses."

Sarah frowned when she heard that they will eliminate witnesses, but it's not unusual. "What do you know about the suspects?"

"We know that it's two of them, from 50 to 90 kg. Focus on is on people from 20 years old to 40 years old."

"What did you plan to do to us?", Aiden asked.

"Standard procedure. Capture you, interrogate, eliminate. We are a team of assassins and people who have seen our faces need to be eliminated…" The man told to Sarah and Aiden that the five of them are an external team which is hired for quick missions, and they are not involved in internal dealings of the organization. The man didn't even know that he is working for a branch family which reports to Lebedevs.

Sarah and Aiden exchanged glances.

The man looked at them and frowned. "What will you do?"

Sarah's lips stretched into a devious smile. "Standard procedure. Capture you, interrogate, eliminate. Unfortunately, you have seen our faces…"

The man's eyes widened in shock when he realized that she repeated his words.

"Are you the ones who attacked the base? You are from Chaos right?"

Sarah paused when she heard the man name 'Chaos'. "What do you know about Chaos?"

"It's an organization in Los Angeles area. Their symbol was on the door of the base which was compromised." He confirmed that he does not know more than that and few useless rumors which involve supernatural forces.

"What are you doing?", the man squealed in panic while Sarah approached him slowly. He never saw a person with glowing red eyes. He was confident that he is facing a demon but then he remembered rumors that leaders of Chaos have glowing red eyes and mystical powers.

"We captured you, interrogated you…", Sarah paused to allow her words to sink in before her left arm moved toward man's neck.

…

Later that evening…

Aiden and Sarah are bundled in a super-fluffy blanket while resting next to the fireplace.

They dragged five bodies further away from the cabin and hid them between lush evergreen foliage.

On the way back they scattered the snow to cover up the tracks they made. It will take weeks, maybe months for anyone to find bodies of those five assassins if wild animals don't take care of them first.

Back to present…

Sarah kept her half-finished cup of hot cocoa on the side table and leaned into Aiden's embrace.

"I'm sorry for ruining the vacation.", she said after a sigh.

"What are you talking about?"

"If I didn't insist of going after that underground base, we would not attract those assassins."

"It all ended well.", he comforted her. "If we didn't go into that base, we would not find the map. It seems it's something important."

Sarah agrees that the map is important, but…"If we are not the first cabin, innocent people would be hurt."

Aiden tightened his hug. "Stop worrying about the things that didn't happen. We are on a vacation… and I still didn't have my dessert."

"Are you talking about the fruit custard?", Sarah asked while avoiding his intense gaze and her lips curved into a smile.

"I need something sweeter first.", Aiden murmured close to Sarah's ear while his hands made their way under her top.

Sarah was overwhelmed with the sudden heat and desire which consumed her.

Aiden kissed her greedily while removing her clothes impatiently.

They both yearned for the feeling when there is nothing between their bodies. When there is just the two of them, breathing together. And there is that moment of the first entry when her gasp mixes with a low growl from the back of his throat and everything is still for a second while their eyes are locked on each other… sharing the experience of becoming one.

Their sounds mixed with the crackles of the wood from the fireplace creating a perfect ending for their first day of a vacation in the cabin on Mount Rainier.

Sleeping in Aiden's embrace while bundled with that super-fluffy blanket was better than what Sarah imagined previously.

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