Chapter 693 - Betrothal gift (1)

Sarah and Aiden headed next morning to meet with their kids.

As much as they wanted to stay in Los Angeles and find out what JoAnna recommends for Charlie's treatment, meeting kids took priority because they have a lot of newcomers. It's important to be there and make sure they know the rules and to set expectations from the start. They can't rely on their seven kids and house staff to do that for them.

When they arrived in United States from Sierra Leone, Sarah and Aiden left all the kids (and Jesse) at their beach house in California, told them to rest and eat and that they will be back in two days. Staff in the house was instructed to take care of sleeping arrangements and clothes for the newcomers, and to make sure they get their meals on time.

Well, this is the second day since their expanded family arrived in US, and Sarah and Aiden are going to meet with them. They have plans. First is to see how kids are doing health-wise, and they arranged for a mobile clinic to come to the property that day. Second is to gauge current knowledge of newcomers and based on that to plan for their education. Considering that in the last year their bodies suffered harsh treatment, Sarah and Aiden don't plan to start any physical trainings other than daily runs to increase their stamina gradually. Once a week, mobile clinic will come to check on them, and only when they get an OK from the doctor, kids can start more intense training.

Sarah felt a bit less guilty for leaving Los Angeles while thinking that Jarred and Charlie said they will be in Los Angeles for a week, so they will have chance to meet with them later.

Sarah was happy that Jeff gave them his jet to use and was surprised when he mentioned that they can use it anytime. That is unusually generous of him. Sarah told Aiden that as long as Jeff is letting them use his jet, they don't need to buy one for themselves. Sarah does not know that with this 'act of generosity' Jeff is preventing them from buying a jet because he wants to gift them one for when they get married. And Jeff's plan is working flawlessly, so far.

Another good thing is that the runway on their property is done. There was no space for it previously, but since Aiden secured two neighboring lots, now the house is on a three-in-one massive piece of land, and they had no problems finding the location for a medium size runway. This saved them more than an hour in driving from the nearest airport and it will be less time consuming to move between houses.

Most of their ride to the airport, Sarah was on the phone with Sophia. When she ended the call, she updated Aiden: "Big sis and Felix are coming to Los Angeles in two days! They will stay with Jeff and Anna. They are considering moving to Los Angeles!"

Sarah saw that Aiden is smiling… probably because he finds her excitement entertaining, but she does not mind. She continued: "I hope they work out the company HQ move as well. Then it will be permanent. Sophia even mentioned that if this works out, she will discuss with Jeff possibilities for Orion Enterprise to merge with White corp. Can you believe that? If that works out, then all three Hill sisters will be working at White corp.!"

Aiden laughed. "I'm not sure if that is you three working at White corp. or taking over."

Sarah laughed with him. She likes the idea very much and hopes it will work out… all of them working together. Having Sophia and Felix close by and in the same company would be something amazing! Sarah could already imagine them meeting for lunch… six of them. Oh, and Steve and Bridgette as well! So, eight of them like one big family.

Aiden's question pulled her out of her thoughts: "What are Stella and Edward saying related to Sophia and Felix moving to Los Angeles?"

"I don't think they talked with them about it. I guess Sophia doesn't want to talk about it until they decide. I can assume that my parents will not be very thrilled if they end up moving away from Seattle." Sarah was so happy about the idea of Sophia coming to Los Angeles that she forgot to think how that will impact their parents. Even if they are sad that Sophia is moving away, they should be happy that their three daughters will be close by. Right?

During the flight, Aiden and Sarah discussed how to name this house. Their home is 'Cliffside villa' , and they thought that this house should get a name as well because 'Beach house' somehow doesn't do it justice because it's not really on the beach (you need to descend stone steps to reach the beach), and there is a large training grounds, and a bat cave... After some time, they were still struggling with the name, and decided to keep it as a 'Beach house' , for now.

Sarah frowned while reading one of her emails.

"What's bothering you?", Aiden never missed when her mood dropped.

"Emir is asking for hundredth time: When will we meet?" Sarah grumbled.

"Can you blame him? I remember that in June you promised them to meet in three months when we left early… it's September."

Sarah grimaced, showing her displeasure. "I know… and I feel guilty about this, trust me, I do. But this month is packed with events and I don't even know where we can meet! They can't come to US because they need visas, and we always kept our meetings low key without leaving traces about our identities. That means we need to meet in Europe, and we don't have a secure location to meet."

Aiden's eyes lit up, and he started typing on his laptop while talking: "About the location… After we met with Nick, I asked Toma to speed up the process with geologists about digging deeper at the island, and the results came negative. They don't recommend going deeper than what already is. Since then, I'm looking for something, and I think this might work..." Aiden turned his laptop so that Sarah can see the screen.

Sarah stared at the screen and swallowed non-existent saliva.

"What do you think?" Aiden asked while trying to hold back laughter. Sarah's expression was comical.

Her eyes darted few times from the screen to his face and back to the screen before she answered: "It's a castle…"