Is this destiny?

Aileen stormed out of the restroom angrily and joined her brother David.

"It seems it didn't go well?", David asked with a smirk. He told Aileen to stay put, but she didn't listen. 

Aileen rolled her eyes. "Can't you at least pretend that you are worried for me?"

David snorted. "What should I be worried about? You can't take care of one nurse?"

"She is not naïve, and she moves fast. She hurt me!", Aileen whined.

David gave Aileen a look over, and he could not see any traces of a fight. Her hair is fine, there are no slap of scratch marks which are common when girls fight… He was sure that she is exaggerating, as usually. "Are you saying that you got a beating? Didn't you get any training?"

"Yes, I trained fencing. How will that help me in a tiny restroom without a weapon?"

"A weapon? Since when are your words not poisonous enough?"

Aileen gritted her teeth. "I told you… she is not naïve. It will not be easy to manipulate her."

"Stupid. Maybe I would have better luck.", David smiled slyly and pushed his hair to the side, indicating that he would seduce Emma.

"Yeah, right. If she is in it for the looks, Cousin Charlie has the advantage compared to you. And if she is in it for the money or power, you are not worthy of cleaning his shoes."

David glared at his sister. "I'm not here to find a woman, I came to mess with Charlie. Causing a rift between them is enough."

"Then drug her and take photos while you have your way with her."

David frowned. "How barbaric. Why would I need to drug a woman?"

"How else are you going to do it?"

"Why are you so excited about this? It's not like you will get any shares regardless how this ends up. And what's with the rush? Didn't we agree that we came here only to check out the situation?"

Aileen snorted. "You will not understand even if I tell you. What are Logan and Caleb up to?"

David sneered internally. His sister always had a need to be the best no matter how silly the reason is. He believes that she is a very stupid person with an abnormal high opinion about herself. Why would anyone go and attack people if there is nothing to gain from it? And why is she talking to him like he is a servant?

"How would I know? Go and find out. I want to try that deep tissue massage everyone is talking about. The massaging lady is just my type."

Aileen watched in disbelief David walking away and went to Logan and Caleb. "Where are your dates?"

Logan gestured with his drink to the side and Aileen saw that two ladies who came with Logan and Caleb are talking with Aiden and Charlie.

Aileen stifled a laugh. "You can't keep your dates for a duration of one party? Pathetic."

Logan and Caleb ignored Aileen. What is she expecting them to do, cause a scene? They agreed to come and check out Charlie's fiancée before other members of the family.

Logan and Caleb wondered why is Aileen making it like it's their fault that their dates are brainlessly chasing guys? The two women obviously did their homework on the prominent bachelors who will be in the attendance and when they saw that Charlie and Aiden are by themselves the two of them just left without a word.

...

Aiden is getting twitchy. He does not want to be super-rude because this is Emma's event and all these journalists are hungry for a scoop, but he knows that if Sarah sees him talking with these two flirty women, he will be in a heap of a trouble.

Few minutes ago, Aiden saw that Charlie is getting nervous because Emma is not returning, and Aiden approached him with a goal to tell him that Sarah is by Emma's side and not to worry. Who knew that a minute later these two women would come and talk to them? And even though Aiden and Charlie are ignoring them, these two are not leaving and are persistently trying to strike a conversation.

Aiden knows that it's not fair to leave Charlie by himself, but Aiden has a strong sense of self-preservation, alright? He cleared his throat and spoke to Charlie: "I'm going to check on Sarah and Emma."

"I will join you.", Charlie said and turned to leave.

Both Aiden and Charlie froze at sight of Sarah and Emma standing three steps behind them. Their glares told Aiden and Charlie that their women are not happy.

In a second, Aiden was by Sarah's side. "I was just telling Charlie not to worry about Emma because you are with her."

Charlie smiled at Emma. "Yes, yes. I was worried because you took so long."

Sarah ignored Aiden. Her sight was on two women behind him. "Can I help you? Or is this something that my fiancé needs to handle personally?"

"We apologize.", Caleb said when he approached the group of four with Logan behind him. "Our dates lost their way. It will not happen again."

Logan and Caleb pushed their dates outside.

"What are you doing?", Caleb's date protested.

"You went over the line. We are sending you home.", Caleb responded dryly.

Logan's date wanted to say something, but he squeezed her upper arm. "We told you to stay by our side and not cause problems…"

Inside...

Charlie hugged Emma and sighed. "I knew that they would cause some problems. Are you OK?"

Emma pursed her lips before responding. "We will talk home. Did they leave?"

Sarah responded after a second (when she got the information from Eve): "They are at the parking lot, getting into a car."

"What about the others?", Emma asked Sarah. Emma is not aware of Eve, but she saw that drone in the bathroom and she guesses that Sarah has a way of using them to monitor the area.

Charlie responded: "Uncle Thomas is with Jarred… I don't see Aileen and David."

"Aileen is in the garden, and David… is getting a massage." Sarah said and turned to Charlie. "You need to increase security. And don't allow bed climbers near you."

"Bed climbers?" Charlie found the term amusing.

"Just as you suspected, your cousins are after Emma.", Aiden told Charlie. "Footage of what happened in the restroom and their other conversations are being stored on a share real-time. I recommend you watch them together when you get home."

Emma leaned onto Charlie and looked at Sarah and Aiden. "At this rate, can I go to Smith mansion without you? If they are this bold here, what can I expect there?"

"They know us…", Sarah mused. "But we can send our kids to escort you as bodyguards." She turned to Charlie who had a troubled expression. "We can do this until you are confident enough in your men."

Charlie wanted to suggest that he can hire several kids from Sarah and Aiden, but he knows that they are all like a family and that request would probably backfire, so he kept it to himself. He remembered that Ryan and Sean are training, and he thought that it's time to check on their progress.

Emma glanced around. "OK. Let's talk about this later. This is a party. It will be done in less than an hour…"

Emma and Charlie walked away to mingle with the guests, leaving Sarah and Aiden.

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