Is this destiny?

~ Nearby Houston, estate belonging to Marcus White ~

Other than few lights in the main hallways, the luxurious mansion is in the dark.

Everyone is sleeping, and only the security guards are moving around their predetermined paths. But their alertness is low, most of them are doing this job for years and they never had a break-in.

Sarah and Aiden had no problem getting into the mansion undetected. Eve took over the electronic surveillance system and put it on a loop so the two of them are practically invisible.

They found their way into the study room.

Aiden is sitting on a leather office chair and going through the documents which he found in the drawers in the oversized oak desk. Sarah is behind him, working on cracking the code for the safe which is in the wall, behind the large portrait of Marcus White.

"Ah…", Sarah inhaled excitedly when she opened the safe.

Sarah inspected the contents and she was not impressed.

"Money… deeds… bonds... and… what is this?", she looked at a printout with a list of thirteen-digit numbers.

Aiden glanced over her shoulder. "No idea. But if it's in the safe, it's important to Marcus. Let's take it all."

"OK." Sarah had no objections. She stuffed everything in her backpack and looked at Aiden who was back at going through drawers. "Are you done?"

"Almost."

"What are you looking for?"

Aiden chuckled. "I don't know. We are just messing with the man. If I find something useful we will take it, and if it's not useful I will rearrange his drawers."

Sarah giggled. "If you feel like rearranging things, you can tidy up our warehouse."

Aiden looked at Sarah and grimaced when he realized that she is teasing him. Being an organized person is a good thing, alright? "I want to see him scratching his head while wondering what happened."

"When your Uncle opens the safe, he will have a good idea what happened…" She placed a flat palm-sized round device in the safe and closed it before pushing the portrait of Marcus White back in place.

Sarah saw that Aiden has no intention to stop going through drawers. How many drawers can one desk have? Based on Aiden's gleeful expression, Sarah can see that he is enjoying. Tonight, her fiancé is extra-mischievous.

"Hey…", Sarah called. "While you are busy with that, I'm going to check on Lukas. See you on the rendezvous point…"

Aiden's grin fell. "What…?" He exhaled in frustration when he looked at the open window. She left already!

He touched his ear stud and whispered: "Be careful."

"Always…", Sarah's voice sounded, and he can tell that she is smiling.

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Lukas jerked out of his sleep and nervously looked around his room. Last few weeks he is not sleeping well, and since the party at the White Mansion, he does not get more than two hours of sleep in one stretch. He is haunted by the nightmares: red eyes, black mask, evil laugh. And during those horrible dreams, both of his arms hurt like they are about to fall off. Faces of the Russian bodyguard merge with Sarah Hill and then that mask shows up, while words ring in his mind: The Goddess of the night, the child of Chaos…

Lukas panicked at the sight of the sheer curtain moving toward him.

He froze and held his breath for an endless second until he realized that it's just an open window. Lukas exhaled in relief, but in the next instant he stiffened again because... why is the window open? He scrambled out of the bed and closed the window swiftly.

He glanced outside through the glass, but he could not see anything in the moonless night. Low solar lights dimly illuminated the pathways in the back garden, and other than dancing shadows, there was nothing else. But he was tense, and those shadows reminded him of danger that looms above him.

"Who is there?!", he almost shrieked in panic when he turned to look toward the room into the darkness. There is nothing. But, there WAS a sound. Is he imagining it? Is he losing his mind, just how his father told him numerous times in last few weeks?

His head snapped toward his bed. There was that faint shuffling sound again!

How is he supposed to go back to bed now?

Lukas exhaled in frustration. There is nothing! If he calls his bodyguards, they will tell his father in the morning and then... What will he say? That he is afraid? They will laugh at him. How can he be the next Master of the White family if he is afraid of the dark?

"Hi…", a sensual female voice came from his right and Lukas almost peed himself when he saw two red dots in the dark.

The two red dots moved and the faint light from the second window revealed the outline of the shadow which looked like a female body. And those red dots are eyes!

Maybe Lukas sees only outlines, but with Eve-vision, Sarah can see Lukas clearly. Even his petrified expression.

"Oooh… Hell!", Lukas said under his breath and dashed back into his bed. He wanted to go for the door, but that woman-shadow is in between him and the door, and there is no way he will jump from the second floor window! Both of his arms are in cast from elbows down and if he jumps he will break something else, probably a leg.

"Mmm…", Sarah hummed and corrected him: "It's Chaos, not Hell."

She walked toward Lukas slowly and the light from the closest window fell on her. Lukas could now see that it's a female with black mask on her face, black outfit… and he would admire the figure if he is not scared shitless.

"What do you want?", Lukas managed to ask in a weak voice.

"I heard that you are calling for me, so I came to ask you: What do you want?"

"Calling for you?" Lukas remembered that he is talking about the Goddess of the night and he trembled while chanting: "Nothing, nothing, nothing…"

"Uhm…", Sarah let a sound of disapproval. "Didn't you hear that I'm a Goddess? If you don't want me to appear in front of you, you should not call my name."

"I will not do it… ever again!"

"Good!", Sarah tilted her head and looked at Lukas who seemed relieved. "But, I am already here. You need to give me something, or I made this trip for nothing…"

"What do you want?"

Sarah shrugged. "When you summon a deity, there should be some offerings, yes? Or, if you don't have anything, then I will take what I see fit."

Sarah looked around the room and with her Eve-vision spotted a safe, behind the portrait of Lukas, above his desk. Really… son is just like his father.

Sarah moved toward the portrait and moved it to the side.

"Open.", she commanded.

Lukas hesitated for a second, but then scooted off the bed and unlocked the safe. As soon as the door cracked open, he dashed back into the bed.

He cringed when he realized that she scooped all the contents and put them… somewhere. But he can't concern himself with that now because the most important is for that shadow to leave.

Lukas inhaled sharply when the sheer curtain moved again. Didn't he close that window a minute ago?

"Why are you here?", Sarah asked in a whisper while moving the portrait of Lukas in the original position over the closed safe.

Lukas wondered why is the dark Goddess asking him that question, and in the next moment he was confident that his soul is about to leave his body when he saw a second shadow in his room!

"Why is this taking so long?", Aiden responded with a question.

"This mortal made his offerings for summoning me.", Sarah gestured toward Lukas.

"You dare to summon my wife?", Aiden growled at Lukas while pulling Sarah closer to him.

"He said that he will not do it again.", Sarah hugged Aiden.

She likes that he called her his wife, and she loves that he immediately understood that they are in the role of Nyx and Erebus. Ah, only Aiden understands her without any explanations.

Aiden's palm caressed the exposed lower half of Sarah's cheek and he kissed her on the lips before asking: "You trust him?"

"Not really. How about we break him?"

Lukas looked at two dark figures, both with black masks and red eyes, facing him and… he peed himself.

Sarah grimaced. "I don't want to touch him now. He is filthy."

Aiden grunted in approval.

Lukas glanced down and realized what the warm sensation is. But he didn't dare say anything.

By the time he looked up, there was no sign of two shadows in his room. He wanted to go and close that damned window and to turn on the lights, but he feared, 'what if those two shadows are still inside?' and decided to stay put.

Lukas didn't dare to move. He sat in the bed and hugged his knees in the dark room with the open window. After some time, Lukas felt that the moist bedding he is sitting on is getting cold. It took him a long time to find his courage and call for maids to change his bedsheets. And he needed a shower.

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