Is this destiny?

Fast-forward through summer…

With everyone being busy, summer passed in a flash.

Oni and Nala accepted to work for Sarah as her assistants, and Michael and Haru accepted to work for Aiden. Michael started right away, while Oni, Nala, and Haru will start when their internships end.

New girls adapted to their routine at the Beach house, and they all focused on training and catching up on academics. By mid-August, all of them knew how to swim, and they were looking forward to September when they get to join the rest of the family. Sarah told them that the move will happen in the second half of September, because they have a lot of things going on before that.

For most of the July, Sarah and Aiden focused on their kids (following up on the progress of the internships and other studies) and reading reports from missions to scout the bases of the Voronin family.

The four night long camping trip was a huge success and kids asked if it could become an annual tradition. Sarah and Aiden agreed, happy that the kids enjoyed the experience while learning a variety of things.

Aiden taught everyone about orientation in the wilderness (without gadgets), and about cooking when the kitchen is not available.

Michael took the lead in demonstrating how to set up traps and capture wild animals.

Sarah was sharing her knowledge about plants (edible vs medicinal vs poisonous) and how to secure drinkable water.

They had a scavenger hunt and a fishing competition and in the evening they gathered around the campfire on the beach to share scary stories about ghosts and werewolves and other supernatural things.

On the third day, Ade and Jamari took a small detour while returning after foraging for wild berries and they bumped into a wild beehive. Of course, they attempted to collect the honey which ended up with a swarm of angry bees chasing them through the camp and everyone (including Sarah and Aiden) jumping into the lake and staying there until the bees gave up on pursuing the ones who dared to disturb them. Luckily, it was a warm early afternoon, so clothes dried off quickly and everyone had a good laugh about it later (much later).

On the last full day of their camping, they formed teams to build rafts which they used for a race on the lake and everyone had a blast while creating memories.

Sophia, Felix, JoAnna, and Jeff didn't join them for the camping trip because Sophia and JoAnna are pregnant, and spending the night on the ground in a sleeping sack does not sound very comfortable, but they said that they will join next time. Maybe.

On August seventeen, Penny had her baby: Oliver Casano (they still call him Ben junior, aka Benny).

As the summer approached its end, Sarah's and Aiden's focus shifted toward the opening of Ceresc Solutions. They had conference calls almost every day with Mishi, and Lucija, Petar, Emir, and Tereza joined when needed.

The original plan was to open the company at the end of July, but they found that extra time is required to drill through the walls for the network and electrical wiring needed for the company, without damaging the structures which are several hundred years old, so they added another month for renovations. Also, they decided not to rush with hiring employees.

The decision was made for the grand opening event to happen on Wednesday, September 9 with the company opening its doors 'unofficially' a week earlier. This soft opening will help them to flush out any initial glitches, especially in the network and security of the company.

Sophia is the first customer, with Ceresc Solutions managing the marketing campaign for security devices coming out of Orion Enterprise in Europe which will launch in October.

Ellie is the second customer, and the marketing campaign for EY which will run worldwide at the end of October, and she also hired Ceresc Solutions to design a number of logos that will be season-specific.

Sarah was giddy, their company didn't open the door, and they already have two big-shot customers. But that is on their team because Sarah and Aiden are the owners who will stay in the background.

Mishi accepted to be the CEO (of course, he did). For the other members of the Sigma army, Petar is the CFO (aka Chief Financial Officer), Emir is the Creative Director, Lucija is the Marketing Director, and Tereza is the Technology Director.

As part of the deal, as promised, each of them has a two-bedroom apartment in the castle on the same property where the HQ is, and 4% ownership of the company. That makes Mishi, Emir, Petar, Lucija, and Tereza own 20% of the company together, while the rest is split evenly with 40% to Sarah and Aiden each.

Aaron also got a two-bedroom apartment in the castle, as part of his employment deal.

At Ceresc Solutions, most of the days in August were used on hiring people. Sophia provided guidelines related to creating a legal department that Mishi followed, and Mishi's next big thing was to find the Director of Human Resources.

All of them needed to hire their assistants and to take professional training which is relevant to their roles in the company.

Luckily Mishi hired Angela Florian as the Director of Human Resources early in the process. Angela is a seasoned professional with more than twenty years of leading human resources in three different mid-sized companies and she took care of hiring secretaries and other administrative and maintenance workers. She also cooperated with the legal department in establishing company policies for employees.

Sarah and Aiden made few trips to see the progress in person and to help out while secretly putting sensors for Eve to use through the buildings and the property.

Aaron spent his July with Noah in Los Angeles, training and learning about the army of Chaos. Aaron went to Romania mid-August, and since then he is staying there.

Aaron went to Milan, to inspect that base which is fully operational with eighty members stationed there. At that time, the Army of Chaos opened the nightclub (aka fight club) in Milan which will help them to recruit more members.

Sarah and Aiden attended this opening in person, there is no way that they would miss something like this: their first fight club in Europe.

Both Sarah and Aiden were surprised to see Aaron step into the fighting arena. He is not much of a fighter (Aaron is a pretty boy), but his one month of training with Noah emboldened him.

Sarah cringed at the sight of Aaron being hit repeatedly, but he managed to get three victories and no losses even though his sorry appearance looked like someone who lost. Badly. Luckily, there were no fractures. Sarah gave Aaron a small container of her medicinal cream so that the cuts and bruises on his face heal faster. She can't allow her Chief graphics designer to look like he got attacked in a dark alley by a group of vicious muggers.

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