Chapter 315 - Team of six (4)

Early that evening, they met for a video chat.

Sarah and Aiden in Fairfield, Sophia and Felix in Seattle, and JoAnna in Los Angeles.

"Where is brother-in-law?" Sarah noticed that Jeff is not there.

"He should be here any minute", JoAnna responded. "Jeff is swamped with work, and he is late from office."

Sophia frowned. "What work is it this late?" It was seven in the evening.

JoAnna defended Jeff. "It seems that his assistant took an afternoon off, so Jeff was left to deal with everything himself. And he wants to clear up his tasks before weekend so that he can focus on this."

"Do you want us to meet later?" Sophia asked. "His inputs are important, and if he will be late..."

"We can't do later." Sarah interrupted. "We have plans. Remember?"

JoAnna sighed in relief. "He is here."

"Sorry I'm late." Jeff told JoAnna and kissed her.

"You should say sorry to us also." Aiden scolded him.

"With a kiss?" Jeff responded in a cold voice, and raised his eyebrows expecting Aiden's response.

Aiden shivered. "No need, no need."

Sarah laughed. This was the first time for her to see Jeff make a joke, and Aiden actually didn't find a way to respond! JoAnna's influence on Jeff is showing.

"OK. OK... settle down." Sophia warned Sarah, but she was also surprised to see this side of Jeff. "Sarah, Aiden, you two first."

"We are ready for tonight. You can watch video feed from the club if you want. Latest cameras that Felix sent are set up, and they provide great night vision. I will send you links after the call. Vivian will be here around nine, and then two of us will go to Reflex." Sarah looked at Aiden, and he continued.

"We are confident that Philip will not miss this chance. I will make sure to keep Sarah safe and to capture Philip."

"What if he does not come alone?" JoAnna was concerned.

"Not a problem..." Aiden is confident that he can take Philip's henchmen. "We don't think he will do anything drastic in such a crowded public place."

"Once we capture them, we will take them to a rented isolated storage unit where we will do... our stuff." Sarah's expression was intimidating. "That will not be shared with you. Other than that, we have ready posts for social media and for the news outlets. They are on our share. I will send links later together with ones for video feeds from the club. The posts will be published on social media this weekend. Comprehensive reports of their criminal activity for the news are ready."

"Good." Sophia approved. "Jeff?"

"As of today's market closure, I own 22% and 24% of two companies we discussed. That is max I could go without raising their suspicion. Stocks are purchased under market value with three different aliases to avoid their suspicion that someone has too much power. I'm ready for Monday. We will proceed as planned to get their value down. We are starting this weekend. Once their value goes down, most of the shareholders will be eager to sell off their stocks, and we will get enough to take over. At that time, we can consolidate all stocks under one name."

"I will wait to hear from you before I make purchases as well. Whatever I buy, I will give you executive power on Tuesday, as we agreed." Sophia added and saw Jeff nod.

Sophia proceeded with her update. "I'm keeping in touch with a public prosecutor, he will be the one filling charges against them as soon as I give him the green light... Anna, we count on you to keep Edward out of this. It's up to you if you can do it from LA or will you come to Seattle. I suspect that Monday evening Sam will reach out to him. By end of workday on Tuesday, it should be over. I will block any Edward's finances I can from my side, but he has his personal funds."

Sarah added. "I will get Eve to redirect any incoming calls from Sam, so that they don't reach Edward. But that will not prevent him from coming in person to persuade dad to give him money."

"That is where we count on you, Anna." Sophia said.

JoAnna nodded. "I will go to Seattle for this."

Jeff and JoAnna talked about this but hearing her say it again made Jeff frown. He didn't like the idea of JoAnna going to Seattle without him, but he can't go with her because he needs to stay in person to navigate stock market purchases.

Sophia saw Jeff frown and smiled. "We will meet again on Tuesday evening to discuss results. If anyone needs a meeting earlier, we can arrange that. Let's stay focused next four days, so that we can celebrate on Tuesday."

"It would be better if we can celebrate together, all six of us, together." JoAnna added.

"How about next weekend?" Sophia suggested.

"We are going to check out progress on our house building over weekend..." Sarah thought of an idea. "Do you want to join? We can make an event. Camping at the beach? Our team of six?"

JoAnna looked at Jeff and smiled. "That would be nice. Count us in."

Sophia was reluctant. She looked at Felix who made a gesture that it's up to her, and then agreed. "OK. We are in."

"Great!" Sarah exclaimed. "We can all meet in LA on Saturday morning, and head to our house site from there. I will arrange transportation. Sophia, if you come on Friday evening, or if you want to stay longer, you are welcome to stay at our place. You didn't get a chance to see it yet."

"Our place also is available!" JoAnna exclaimed.

Jeff liked that she called it 'our place'.

"You want us to stay overnight camping?" Sophia was not very excited about that.

"Yes, we can go there Saturday morning, and head back on Sunday evening." Sarah responded and observed Sophia's worried expression. "Don't worry, I will take care of everything. You just show up and bring any personal items you might need." Sarah knows that Sophia is not really an outdoorsy person.

Felix looked at Sophia. "If we go to LA, maybe we find some time for you to meet my sister."

"Bridgette?" Sarah chimed in.

"You know her?" Felix was surprised.

Sarah bobbed her head excitedly. "Yes, yes. She works at White corp. We meet for coffee sometimes. I like her very much. Aiden knows her also."

"Do I know her?" Jeff asked.

"Maybe... she is Steve's girlfriend." Sarah was happy to talk about Bridgette.

Felix's expression stiffened. It was as if dark clouds circled above his head.

"I didn't meet her yet. Today Steve took an afternoon off to spend with her." Jeff responded.

If there were any dark clouds above Felix's head, they just became darker and thunderous. No one noticed this change.

Seeing that this talk is going off track and Sarah and Aiden have tasks to do later, Sophia interrupted them. "OK. OK.... let's end this chat for tonight..."

They ended the chat with reminders for Aiden and Sarah to be careful.

Aiden observed Sarah who was now in good mood while thinking of camping with her sisters. He sighed in relief. When Sarah talked about giving him full access to Eve, Aiden had a bad feeling that she will be reckless and do something crazy. But now that she has plans for next weekend and is smiling, puts his mind at ease.