Is this destiny?

~ Austin, Four Seasons Hotel ~

October 1, 11:12 AM

Sarah and Aiden are in their suite.

Aiden is arranging their things in the closet and the bathroom and Sarah is in the sitting area, opening the box which Felix sent them from Los Angeles.

Sarah found two distinct types of smaller boxes inside large one: black and white.

Black boxes are larger and contain knives which have a short handle and about 10 cm long, thin blade. On the handle, there is a small button which will make hook-like attachments spring out of the blade. Bloodthirsty part of Sarah is very happy with this because once blade is in, and hooks are out… It's inevitable to rip the flesh while pulling the blade out. Of course, Eve can control the hook attachments on the knives, so Sarah only needs to make sure the blade is in the rigth place, and Eve will do the rest. 

There are two small white boxes. Each has a pair of lenses in. Those lenses are latest creation that came out of Sarah's workshop: lenses that sync with Eve and provide all functionality that Felix's cameras can. There is also a feature that once lenses are paired up between team members, the sight can be shared. Bonus functionality: lenses can change color based on the mood of the wearer.

Sarah is super-excited about this!

"Knives and lenses are here… do you want to try them out?", Sarah asked Aiden when he joined her in the sitting area.

"Knives or lenses?", he asked reluctantly.

Sarah burst into laugh. "Lenses, of course."

Aiden made a face. "I don't know… I don't like the idea of putting things in my eyes."

"Would you rather try the knives?" Sarah grinned.

"Knowing where they are going, no thank you." Aiden rejected firmly and pouted. "I thought that you like me."

"I love you." Sarah pulled him down on the sofa next to her and moved to sit in his lap. "And I love every part of you."

She planted a kiss on his lips, and he pulled her closer, deepening the kiss. The atmosphere was getting hot and steamy, and just as Sarah's hands got under Aiden's t-shirt, her phone rang.

Sarah answered the call from JoAnna by putting it on speaker.

"Since when are you into modeling?!!", JoAnna almost screamed as soon as Sarah answered the call.

Sarah frowned. "Huh, don't remind me. It was an accident. Two models canceled at the last minute, and Ellie needed help. How do you know about it?"

"Hehehe… You two are trending and you are H-O-T!"

"Trending?" Sarah didn't understand, how is that possible? She has an app which notifies her when any of them ends up in social media. Is something wrong with her app?

JoAnna's next line answered her questions: "No one knows your name, yet. Check hashtags #EYModel. I watched video clips… if you EVER AGAIN say that you have a stage fright, I will appear out of thin air and slap you personally."

Sarah shook her head helplessly. Only she knows how petrified she was. But she took few deep breaths and told herself that she can do it… and listened to Aiden's advice to pretend that she is someone else. Only he knows how much she likes role-playing, so he told her to pretend to be a fierce model. And a fierce model she was.

"You are excited about this more than I am.", Sarah observed.

"Well, yeah!", JoAnna exclaimed. "Someone needs to be excited. We have a famous model in the family! Wait, no! We have two famous models in the family!"

JoAnna cleared her throat awkwardly and added. "Sorry Aiden, I didn't forget about my favorite twice-brother-in-law on purpose. You are the king of the runway!"

Sarah stifled a laugh when she saw Aiden roll his eyes.

"Hey, wait a minute… how come you know about this? I thought you are offline during your honeymoon."

"Duh… We came back this morning, and I'm catching up on the news! Imagine my surprise when I want to see how Ellie is doing and I see you two all sassy on the catwalk!" JoAnna giggled. It was obvious that she is in a good mood. "I'm almost done with checking on the latest online gossip... I mean news, and then I will run few errands through the city to make sure everything is ready for Charlie's surgery tomorrow."

Sarah giggled. JoAnna's enthusiasm was contagious. "How was your honeymoon?"

"It was amazing! Everything was amazing! When you come back from Chicago, I will tell you all about how we captured pirates!" JoAnna giggled. "And we've got treasure!"

"Pirates? Treasure?" Sarah was sure that JoAnna is exaggerating. Maybe they participated in some play, or one of those reality role-playing experiences. "Oh… we are not in Chicago. We are in Austin."

JoAnna paused. "Austin?"

"Yeah. We are running some errands also." Sarah decided to change the topic. "We will be back in Los Angeles tomorrow. When is Charlie's surgery?"

"It will start at 10 AM, and I estimate five hours duration. But that might change after I finish talking with Felix about his custom-made parts. Emma confirmed that she is available to assist me, and she will even stay few days to help Charlie post-operation. She is arriving later today. I guess she is excited to come because of Brian."

Sarah exhaled. "It seems that you don't know…"

"Know what?"

"Brian will be in Chicago. Things between Emma and him didn't work out.", Sarah said reluctantly.

"Oh… that didn't last long." JoAnna was confused and disappointed. Brian and Emma were smitten with each other at the wedding. She will ask for details from Emma when she gets a chance.

"Not every relationship is destined for a happy ending.", Sarah reminded JoAnna.

"Yeah…", JoAnna sighed.

JoAnna knows that Sarah and Aiden bonded with Charlie and his uncle Jarred and decided to offer: "If you want to come for the surgery, head to LA Medical Center, surgery wing, third floor. Felix will be there starting from noon, and of course, Emma will be with me from the start."

Sarah glanced at Aiden and he nodded in agreement.

"We will not make it by 10, but we will do our best to be there when the surgery is done.", Sarah explained and added: "Tell Charlie that we wish him good luck."

"Sure. Sarah?"

"Yeah?"

JoAnna wanted to say many things, but settled with a simple: "Take care."

Sarah knows that JoAnna has a good idea why two of them are in Austin. If she is catching up on news, next to Jeff she probably didn't miss that some families are suffering in the aftermath of their parents venting their anger.

"Always. Don't worry about us."

Sarah ended the call and kept her phone on the side. "Where were we?"

Aiden looked at her with his devilish smile on. He is remembering those kisses which got interrupted by the phone call.

"How about it?" She held a small white box with lenses on her palm. "It's just a minute or two to get used to it. After that you enjoy the benefits of Eve-vision..."

Sarah inhaled sharply when she realized that he is not thinking about lenses at all.

A smile crept on her face while she kept the box back on the table. "We can try out the lenses later."

"Mhm… I like that… later.", he mumbled between kisses.

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