Is this destiny?

As much as Sarah was encouraging in front of others, Aiden noticed her mood drop when they were alone later that evening.

"Hey, it will be OK.", he pulled her in his embrace.

"I am sorry." Sarah sighed. "You were not even part of this and now there is a possibility that Nick might expose you as Omega."

"Why are you sorry? I am the one who exposed myself to them. Remember? And maybe it's time to start over. We can start with new aliases and work as a team."

"We are already working as a team.", Sarah reminded him.

"We are so much more than a team. We are a family. I was thinking for some time now… I like Erebus."

Sarah's eyes widened in surprise.

Aiden smiled and caressed her cheek while speaking: "I find it to be very appropriate. Two Gods of darkness were born out of Chaos and came together to create light and everything else. You are the light of my life, and only you can be my Nyx… Erebus and Nyx had numerous children, and we already have a full house of them."

He lifted Sarah up and carried her to the bed. "That said, we can always add few more."

"I…", Sarah was at a loss of words. She was so touched by the fact that he understood and granted her silent wish for them to be Nyx and Erebus, that she completely neglected that he placed her on the bed and his hands are reaching for her pants (to remove them).

"What?" He looked into her face with a slight frown as soon as he noticed that she is not responding as expected.

She was almost tearing up. "Thank you. You are wonderful."

"Hey, hey…", Aiden knocked lightly on her forehead. "Don't go sappy on me now. I was more going for passionate…" He looked at her playfully for a second, but then he confirmed that Sarah's mood is not matching his.

Sarah thought how he is adorable and amazing and hers. "You… I don't know what I did to deserve a man like you by my side." She hugged him tightly and sniffled.

Aiden exhaled in resignation (and frustration) and hugged her back. "OK. Sappy it is."

…

Late next evening, Sarah is with Aiden in their room, initiating a video conference.

JoAnna and Jeff are on one window, and Sophia on another.

"Before anyone asks, Felix is still sleeping. Since everyone else is here, let's wrap this quickly so I can join my husband in the bed. What is so important that it can't wait for you two to come back from France?", Sophia asked and blinked few times before adding: "You are coming back, right?"

"And it better be important if I need to wake up at seven in the morning for this!", JoAnna yawned and narrowed her eyes at Sarah. "Did you forget about the time difference when you asked us to join at this time?"

Sarah rolled her eyes. "Yes, we will be back in a week. And yes, it's important."

Sarah and Aiden told them that Ellie is helping Jasper.

"She already has 8% of K Industries. All her KMY stocks are sold, so we can only assume that she will buy whatever she can for K Industries.", Sarah told them. "And another thing is that Ellie is looking into Jasper's frozen assets and resources."

"She is helping Jasper with that?" Jeff was not happy that Jasper is working with Ellie, and he refused his help. Jasper is the closest thing to a best friend Jeff has. How can he betray him like that? Over a woman? Ah, Jeff felt a pang in his heart. He completely forgot that he neglected everyone as soon as JoAnna entered his life.

"We don't think that Jasper is working with her." Aiden explained when he saw his brother's mood worsen. "Our opinion is that she found out about it and is investigating. The job is to find out information related to frozen assets. If Jasper is involved, it would not be this generic."

"What did you find?", JoAnna wanted to get the details quickly.

Sarah started: "There is a specific menioning of assets AND resources. We found information related to money, properties and one company, but there is nothing on other resources at this point. We are still looking into it. What we know is that Jasper's grandfather gave him money, properties and a small sized company which since then grew to a medium sized one. Shortly after his grandfather passed away, Norman transferred pretty much everything into an umbrella fund under his name."

"How old was Jasper then?", Sophia asked when Sarah made a break.

"He was 20 years old. We found records that his grandfather set up people to manage properties and the company until Jasper's 21st birthday. Also, there was more money coming his way on his 21st birthday. But before that happened, his father diverted everything. Here is the summary…", Sarah shared a file.

"What do you think?", JoAnna asked Jeff.

Jeff's eyes were darting over the screen which showed how and where money and other assets were moved. "I think that Jasper's grandfather was preparing Jasper to take over, and his father didn't like that he got skipped."

"Why are you showing us this?", JoAnna understood that this is more than an information sharing session.

"I think that we should help him get his things back.", Sarah responded.

JoAnna frowned. She was still not happy about waking up this early. "Can't you two just do that with your computer magic?"

"Yes, we can.", Aiden confirmed. "But, Norman is old school. Everything we found so far are physical documents which got scanned after they were signed. So even if we move all this under Jasper's name electronically, Norman has the original documents and he can take it all away again."

Sarah added: "Sophia, can you look into this and see if we can help Jasper get what belongs to him in a legal way?"

Sophia glanced again at the information Sarah shared so far. "Everything seems to be done by the books… It was not the moral thing to do, but his father grabbed the right window to do it legally. Grandfather was not there to stop it, and Jasper was not of age to claim it."

Aiden remembered: "We found that on two occasions Jasper tried to get everything back. He had lawyers and prepared for the court, but he was shut down before it reached anyone of importance. That might be something. We will send you everything we have after this call."

"Anna, since you are closest to Ellie, can you talk to her about this?", Sarah cautiously asked.

JoAnna's eyebrows shoot up. "Tell her what exactly? That I know how she is secretly digging into her boyfriend's past and assets because she hired people to obtain the information illegally?"

"It does sound bad when you put it that way.", Sarah sighed.

Aiden got an idea: "You can say that you found out from Jeff. He has connections everywhere, and Jeff was informed how someone is investigating his best man's past… and because of that you are aware of the issue and want to help."

JoAnna rubbed her temples. "That sounds… better. I will need to polish that story a bit, but it's a good start."

"I recommend that you let me look into this first, before you tell her anything.", Sophia suggested. "If I can't find a way to help him out, then we are just exposing ourselves. Give me one day and I will send you an update. By then, I should know if there is hope for this to work, even if I don't have a solid strategy in place."

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