Chapter 190 - Back home (3)

As days passed, Edward was easing up with the idea that Sarah and Aiden are sharing a room. Or maybe he just managed to suppress his frowns better.

Every day JoAnna would come home to change Sarah's bandages and to make sure it looks OK.

"Is this kind of care necessary?" Sarah asked. "It's already a week, do I still need these?" Sarah was looking at clean gauze that JoAnna just removed from her back.

"Not really... but it can't hurt. You get extra care because you are my sister.", JoAnna told Sarah while putting medicinal cream over the incision. "It's healing really well."

"How are things with you at work?", Sarah asked JoAnna.

JoAnna's hands stopped for few seconds, before she responded. "It's... OK." JoAnna took the clean gauze and started taping it on Sarah's back.

Sarah turned her head to see JoAnna's face. "That didn't sound like OK. Tell me."

JoAnna glanced at Aiden who was sitting on the side.

Sarah noticed and reminded JoAnna, "Aiden can hear whatever you have to say about Dr. Light. He is in this with us."

JoAnna nodded and said. "Greg is pestering me to go for a dinner with him. I'm running out of excuses. In the meantime, he is cutting my privileges every time I dodge him. Now I'm down to duties of a regular nurse. Since your surgery I didn't assist in any other, and before that wretched Valentine's dinner I would assist in at least one surgery every other day."

"Why don't you go for that dinner? Pick a public place, and get a driver to wait for you, as well as few bodyguards to watch from the side in case he tries something funny." Sarah suggested.

JoAnna sighed. "That is the thing. He wants me to have dinner at his house and does not want to accept a dinner at a public place." She was feeling completely defeated and out of options.

"That is out of the question!", Sarah exclaimed. She was worried, if JoAnna goes to his house who knows what the scumbag will try to do. Sarah thought of an idea. "Hey! How about you invite him here for dinner? It's not a public place, but it's safe."

JoAnna helplessly shook her head. "I don't think that will work. I would feel that he is dirtying this house with his presence... Did you guys find anything?" She looked at Sarah and then at Aiden.

Sarah glanced at Aiden. "He is not letting me do any work until I heal... look." Sarah raised arms in front of her, slightly above her head. "I can do this much... can we now look at least into this? It's an emergency." Sarah looked at Aiden expectantly.

Aiden didn't want to let her work. Sarah's priority should be to heal. Image of her falling down, not moving, lying on the bed, going to surgery two times, that blood pressure monitor machine beeping… everything was still fresh in his mind, haunting his dreams. But seeing her look at him like that, and knowing that she wants to help her sister, he gave in. "OK... Let's look into this guy." He looked at JoAnna. "You will have something by the time you come tomorrow to change her bandages again."

JoAnna felt relieved. "Thank you. I hope you find something... I don't want to be in a position to choose between my conscience and my career."

Sarah hugged JoAnna. "We will figure this out, don't worry. Did you record him saying anything incriminating?"

JoAnna shrugged. "Except him mentioning dinner, nothing else."

…

When JoAnna left, Sarah sat at her PC, and Aiden took his laptop.

Aiden took the lead. "Let's make a list. Social media, newspaper articles, police reports, bank accounts, employment records, student records, investments, partners..."

They started searching for the information. Eve was looking into large areas such as social media and newspapers. Sarah and Aiden stayed up until late that night.

"Huh... this guy seems clean." Sarah sulked. "Even his bank accounts look normal."

"Did you check all of them?" Aiden asked while not moving his gaze from the screen of his laptop.

"Yes. I did." Sarah confirmed.

She heard Aiden ask, "Even the offshore ones?"

She was a bit embarrassed. "Huh? I didn't check those... maybe pain medications are making me forgetful." Sarah awkwardly smiled. She is not sure how she forgot to check offshore accounts, and she refused to admit that she just forgot. But how did he know that she didn't check those? 'Is he watching what I'm doing?' She was upset and impressed at the same time.

Not long after, Sarah beamed. "I think I found something!"

Aiden's stopped what he was doing and moved closer to see her screen. "What am I looking at?"

"This offshore account. It's not even reported in tax returns, so I checked it first. Look, very large deposits here, and here, and here... " She was pointing at the screen. "There was three of those last year, and four previous one. This is not part of his investments, and definitely not a salary... and look at these two withdrawals. Did he buy a jet? Or three?"

"You think he accepts payments under the table?" Aiden asked.

Sarah nodded while thinking. "I will check from where those deposits came, and if anything important happened at FMC at that time." Sarah's lips curved into a smile as her fingers went back to the keyboard. "Find out where money went when he did those large withdrawals." Sarah was thrilled because she found something useful for her sister while doing the thing she loves, with a person she loves.

Aiden was smiling and looking at her, without moving. He enjoyed seeing her happy.

Sarah's fingers stopped moving and she turned toward him. "What?"

He caressed her cheek. "I haven't seen you this excited for a while."

"Oh... " She shyly smiled, blushing a little. Sarah turned her head back toward the screen and her fingers resumed their movements.

Even after all this time, when their eyes meet and he charms her with his smile, her heart starts racing... just like when they met. Sarah hopes that this feeling does not go away, ever.