Is this destiny?

"Mistress…", Noah called sorrowfully to Sarah who is standing next to the table with food.

He spent the last few hours with Ernesto, completing the tasks that Aiden assigned to him. And he knows that they are not urgent and that Aiden did that only to keep him away from Sarah, but Aiden is higher in the chain of the command, and this is the army, and if he refused his mistress would not approve, so the only thing he could do is to grit his teeth and to do his best to finish as fast as possible so that he can spend some time by Sarah's side. She is always busy and something like a dinner in her company is a visual treat which is rare to come by.

"Noah. I wondered where you were…", Sarah said when she saw Noah. She leaned closer to Noah and spoke only for him to hear: "I told you not to call me that."

Noah cleared his throat. "Sorry, I forgot for a moment. I hope you can forgive my faux pas because I was too excited. You see, I've spent the evening with Ernesto checking out the place and planning for…" His voice trailed off when he saw Aiden standing behind Sarah.

Sarah turned to see what spooked Noah and struggled to suppress her laughter. Those two will never stop acting ridiculously.

Sarah returned her gaze to Noah and showed him a comforting smile mixed with pity which she was unable to conceal.

"You must be hungry. Please, eat something before you go back to the main base.", Sarah filled up one plate with food and handed it to Noah.

Noah's eyes sparkled and he grinned. His mistress is worried about him! All his displeasure was gone.

 "Thank you. I will eat it all.", Noah said while taking the plate. He wanted to stay longer, but Aiden's murderous glare was impossible to ignore. "Excuse me… I will go and take a seat there…"

"What did I miss?", Aiden asked Sarah when Noah walked away.

"The event is going fine. No incidents so far. Meili is back in her room. Imani will stay here to assist Anna in the surgeries tomorrow. How did your talk with Jeff go?"

Aiden paused. "What makes you think that I spoke with him?"

Sarah made a face.

Aiden exhaled. He would rather not tell Sarah because it will be one more thing weighing on her mind and spoiling her mood, but she will find out one way or another and the only question is when. In addition to that, this circus around them looks like anything other than a honeymoon already so… "He is not good. Jeff is talking incoherently and blaming himself for everything. He is worried that Anna does not want to see him ever again."

Sarah was not sure if Aiden is exaggerating or not. "Is it that bad?"

Aiden nodded solemnly. "Anna told us that she left her tracking devices behind. But she didn't say that among the things she left is the wristwatch which Jeff gave her when they got engaged and her wedding band as well."

Sarah inhaled and held her breath while looking at her black wedding band. She wondered if JoAnna is really considering divorcing Jeff or… She didn't want to think about JoAnna and Jeff divorcing. The two of them love each other. Surely, they will fix it, right?

Sarah looked at Aiden and hoped that he has some solution for this. "What did you say?"

"I didn't say much. Jeff already said everything I had on my mind, and he added more. He is confident that she is pregnant only because he was persistent about it and that she hates him and the babies as well because this is something that can't be reversed and…" Aiden stopped talking when he saw that Sarah lowered her head.

"I told him that she is here.", Aiden said in a small voice.

Sarah lifted her head, and as expected, he saw her glaring at him.

"Why? She came here to reflect on it, and you betrayed her trust."

"Sarah, love, listen… she came here to cool off and for him to reflect on it. You saw her, there is no need to cool off anything because she is miserable. And Jeff knows what he did, and he is blaming himself. You didn't see him or heard him. He is in such a bad state, that I am concerned that he will hurt himself. There is no point in keeping them apart if both of them want to be together and to fix it."

Sarah's fighting spirit subsided. "I know. And I agree. But if Anna sees Jeff here, she will be disappointed in us."

"I will take the blame. I did it anyway. I will rather that she is disappointed in me than to see my brother's life be ruined because he didn't get a chance to fix it." Aiden saw that Sarah will not argue about this, so he clarified: "The more this drags, the more she is hurt and drifting away from him and I would be fine with that if she does not love him or if he does not love her. Jeff is ignorant and clueless about the relationships, but he is willing to learn and to make it work and I am confident that after this, he will listen to her and do whatever it takes."

Sarah agrees with Aiden. The only thing she hopes is that it will work. "When will he be here?"

"In no more than an hour."

Sarah imagined Jeff frantically barging in and asking for forgiveness. "Anna went to sleep. I don't want him to disturb her."

"I told him not to make it worse and he agreed not to push it. We can ask him to stay on the side until she wakes up, and just in case, one drone will watch over him."

Sarah agreed with this as acceptable. There is one more topic: "Did you finalize arrangements for Meili?"

Aiden confirmed. "Her family will be expecting her, and I sent the video footage from the basement and of her confession, so they are aware of it. Her father assured me that they will keep her in check, and I assured him in return that we will be watching."

Sarah nodded in approval. "You think of everything."

Aiden looked at Sarah helplessly. "The only thing I can't think of is how to take you back to the hotel and to remind you that this is our honeymoon."

"Oh, Aiden... I'm sorry. But with Jeff coming here and all the girls and…"

"It's OK.", Aiden interrupted her. "I know that you would not be able to relax until this is settled. I guess we are sleeping with ten other people in the room again." The part of no intimacy, he kept to himself.

"Eleven. Noah is staying as well.", Sarah said with a straight face and burst into a laugh at Aiden's outraged expression.

"I'm kidding… I'm kidding…", Sarah said while catching her breath. "When will you stop being hostile toward Noah? He is harmless."

"Because you think that he is harmless, I can't relax around him. Do you know that he checks his breath before meeting with you?" Aiden paused and observed Sarah's smile directed at him. "What is making you so happy? Noah checking his breath?"

"I am happy that you are taking such good care of me. My husband."

Aiden grinned. She called him 'husband' again!

He cleared his throat and tried to be cool about it. "Don't mention it. It's my job to take care of my wife."

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