Is this destiny?

Sophia could see that Mr. Turner is conflicted. As a reasonable man, he agrees with what Sophia said, but at the same time he is a father and wants to stand up for his daughter.

Sophia didn\'t allow him time to talk. She turned to Madison who was staring back at her without a word.

"Miss Turner… should think things through before announcing to everyone that you are after Aiden White. Do you know who he is? Do you know that he is the Valedictorian in one of the best technical Universities in the country? How does that compare with your below average academic achievements? Why do you think that you are a match for him? Do you know what his contributions are at White corp.?" Sophia\'s eyes moved over Madison from top to bottom. "Besides that tight dress, I don\'t see what else you have going for you. Considering how much skin you are showing, I will not be surprised if someone mistakes you for an entertainer in a strip club. Do you think that a promising young man like Aiden White will be so superficial to select his partner only based on…", Sophia gestured toward Madison\'s chest. "…this? Hmph! I guess with your low IQ, that is what you will think."

Sophia was happy to see Madison\'s absolutely shocked expression, and she wondered if Madison\'s brain is resetting or if she is processing her words.

With this, she was done. Silently, Sophia praised her performance.

"Excuse me, I need to talk with few more people before the ceremony begins." Sophia left without looking back, satisfied that she verbally bashed a shameless woman who dares to covet a man who belongs to her baby sister.

It took some time for Madison and her father to get out of a daze.

"Why do you want me to work for that evil woman?!", Madison hissed at her father.

"Madison!", Mr. Turner snapped at his daughter and looked around nervously, making sure that no one heard her. "CEO Hill is a reputable leader in one of the best companies where main product is software. If you do your internship there, your career will be off to a very good start! And if you offend her, many other companies will refuse to be associated with you."

"Are you defending her?"

Mr. Turner sighed. "No. But I told you more than once not to talk about that White boy! You can like whoever you want, but this was a talk about your career. Why do you always need to make yourself sound like a girl who lost all reason due to love?"

Madison narrowed her eyes. "Do you think that she likes Aiden?"

Her father shook his head and sighed while wondering, where does she get these ideas? "Madison, CEO Hill is married. And just in case if you missed her belly, I need to tell you that she is very pregnant. She does not like Aiden. But she also does not want to hire a person who makes career choices based on how close to her crush she gets."

"How do you know that?"

Mr. Turner rubbed his temples. This daughter of his is unreasonable. "I would do the same thing. The moment you hinted that you are interested in Orion Enterprise because it\'s close to White corp. HQ building, I knew that you failed."

Madison sulked. She felt wronged. "Did she need to be so mean about that?"

"Well, I am also puzzled why she went to such lengths to insult you. But by putting your love interest above her company while asking her for a job, you insulted her first. If you want someone to hire you, you need to be humble. I just didn\'t know that she will be this fierce. Maybe she wanted to make a point, to teach you a lesson so that you know better going forward."

2:48 PM…

Emma reluctantly knocked on the door of the suite on the fourth floor few times. No one opened.

"Are you sure that Sarah is inside?", Emma asked JoAnna over the phone.

"YES!", JoAnna roared. "GET HER OUT OF THERE!"

"But… no one is answering the door.", Emma awkwardly said.

"BREAK IT DOWN! DON\'T MAKE ME GO THERE!"

Emma took a deep breath. "OK, OK… calm down."

"DON\'T COME BACK WITHOUT HER!"

Emma twitched when JoAnna ended the call.

"It seems that JoAnna\'s nerves are tense because of the wedding.", Emma told Brian and curled her fingers into a fist before hitting the door with it.

She was about to hit the door again, when it abruptly opened.

"What?", Aiden lazily asked with his elbow leaning on the doorframe.

Emma took a step back reflexively and stared at Aiden. He was wearing only jeans pants which rested low on his hips, and his toned top was exposed. Emma\'s eyes traveled from Aiden\'s Adam\'s apple which bobbed when he swallowed, to his firm chest, over his toned abs toward his Apollo belt. \'Mother of God! I didn\'t realize that he is this handsome!\'

Aiden glanced at Brian and frowned slightly. He does not know who that man is, it seems he came with Emma.

Aiden looked back at Emma and he didn\'t miss that she is gawking at him.

Aiden cleared his throat. "I assume you came here with a purpose."

Emma snapped out of her daze. "Sarah… needs to come and get ready…", she said weakly.

"I will tell her that.", Aiden took a step back and started closing the door.

Emma stepped forward and prevented the door from closing with her hand. "I\'m dead if I go back without her."

Aiden paused for a second before tilting his head and walking inside the suite. He left the door open.

Emma glanced at Brian, feeling guilty for her mishap of staring at Aiden, before bravely pushing the door open and stepping inside. Brian followed. There is no way he is letting Emma inside by herself, not after he saw her almost drooling at that man few seconds ago!

"Who was it?", Sarah\'s voice came from the bedroom.

"Emma. She is here… waiting for you to go and get ready.", Aiden responded while walking into the bedroom.

He pushed the door to close behind him, but it didn\'t close all the way. That small gap was enough for Emma and Brian to hear clearly what is going on inside that bedroom.

"Ah!", Sarah exclaimed. "You answered the door like that? Why didn\'t you cover up?"

"I did."

"Not enough! How many times I need to tell you to cover up both top and bottom!" Sarah was scolding Aiden.

"I didn\'t have enough time… she banged at the door so dramatically, I thought it\'s something urgent… Don\'t go out like that! Emma has some guy with her… Mmm… Let me help you dress up."

Sarah\'s giggles came from the bedroom. "This is not helping…"

Emma was staring at the ocean through the window of the living area. Her face was red like a tomato and she didn\'t dare look at Brian. Sarah\'s squeals and giggles mixed with indistinct Aiden\'s noises coming from that bedroom were too… suggestive.

After what seemed like forever to Emma (but was actually only few minutes), Sarah and Aiden walked out of the bedroom while holding hands, both fully dressed.

"Oh, it\'s Brian!", Sarah recognized him from her dress fitting session and turned to Aiden. "Aiden, this is Brian. Emma\'s date for the wedding."

"Brian, this is Aiden. My fiancé."

Sarah\'s introduction invoked a big smile on Aiden\'s face. He always likes when she introduces him as her fiancé. It never gets old.

While Brian and Aiden exchanged greetings, Emma looked at Sarah and then around the suite. "Where is your dress?"

"We sent it to the dressing room for guys, to get it ironed.. We can pick it up on the way out."