Is this destiny?

~ Los Angeles ~

Wednesday, 8:53 AM

Evalina is standing in front of the wall to ceiling window of her penthouse. She is dressed in a business suit which fits her well and drinking her usual morning shake.

The sunny day enhances the beautiful city view from the 25th floor, but she does not care about it.

Evalina is reflecting on the recent events.

She was looking forward to the White corp. company event on Thursday. It was her chance to approach Aiden, and she planned every detail… How did it go so wrong?

For months, she is pretending to be a pitiful homeless person in front of Alexander, and she knows that part was perfect. She even adjusted her makeup over time to give an illusion that she is losing weight, and oversized shabby clothes hid her figure. And she knows that Alexander was fooled. He felt sorry for her to the point of informing her details about Aiden and Sarah.

In her clan, Evalina is an average fighter, but her skills of a disguise are top notch.

After Evalina lost her position at White corp. it took her only a day to find three good candidates for her to take over their identities.

Evalina glanced on the coffee table which has a black short wig on top of it and smirked. Now she is Ivanka Benson, a software engineer employed at the middle sized insurance company in Los Angeles. Considering that Ivanka was not in touch with her mother, and didn\'t have friends, she was perfect. Real Ivanka Benson is somewhere in the ocean, eaten by the sea creatures. As soon as she got Ivanka out of the way, Evalina submitted a resignation to the job position Ivanka held at that time and she got her current job. Ah, remembers how all the interviewers ogled at her… if they knew that the real Ivanka was a middle aged 100kg heavy woman, they would probably flip.

And everything was great. Evalina became Ivanka, with a steady earning and a wonderful penthouse which her grandmother left her after passing. And Alexander never suspected a thing.

Evalina didn\'t want to use Alexander, but she knows that Aiden\'s skills are more than just coding. She was concerned that if she starts looking into him, he will get alerted… so Alexander was a necessity in order for her to track Aiden\'s whereabouts.

At first, Evalina was not confident that Aiden will attend the company event, he never cared for those things. But when she found out that Sarah will be presenting, Evalina knew that Aiden will be there as well.

Alexander provided her with necessary information where Aiden\'s designated parking spot is, and it was easy for Evalina to predict his path where she can intercept him. She wanted to see him, talk to him… get him to understand that she needs him, and that he needs her as well.

All guys fall for a woman who needs help, and her plan was that Aiden sees her ruined and pitiful because of him, and because of that despicable Sarah… but he looked at her with contempt while hiding that slut behind his back! And she could not take it.

Evalina narrowed her eyes and smirked at the thought how even though she didn\'t get Aiden, neither will Sarah. Nor any other woman. She has wonderful three years of memories with him, and no one else has that. She had him the most.

Evalina would like to see Sarah suffering now that Aiden is dead… but she can\'t find any information about Aiden\'s death. Well, that is not uncommon. Whites keep their private life… private. And she does not want to contact Alexander. He is a liability, and he probably knows what she did by now.

Evalina\'s wristwatch buzzed. It\'s 9 AM. Time to go to work.

She gulped her shake and put her black wig on.

Evalina does not know why she is still pretending to be Ivanka… but what else will she do? Until she figures that out, she will be Ivanka. She turned to look at the apartment and thought how this is not a bad life.

Evalina got her purse and opened the door to exit her apartment.

\'POW!\'

A powerful kick made Evalina fly few meters backward before she fell on the ground next to the coffee table in the living area.

By the time she looked up, three people were in her apartment… two men and… Sarah!

Evalina noticed that Sarah\'s left arm is awkwardly stiff, slightly bent at the elbow and close to her body. But she didn\'t think much of it.

Evalina\'s eyes darted toward her purse which was almost reachable.

Jesse saw that and kicked the purse further away.

Evalina glared at Jesse for a second before her sight darted toward Haru and then she narrowed her eyes at Sarah. "What do you want?"

Sarah looked at Evalina while controlling her urge to kill her on the spot. But she reminded herself that killing Evalina is easy. Why would she allow Evalina an ending without suffering if Evalina is the one who caused her soul to ache every time she sees Aiden in that hospital bed?

Sarah is confident that only seeing Evalina cry in agony will soothe this searing pain in her chest.

Evalina wanted to fight, but seeing Sarah\'s murderous gaze made her freeze. By the time she came around, Jesse and Haru were tying her up.

"What do you want? Let me go! Why are you here?", Evalina screamed for few seconds before Haru tapped a pressure point making her unable to speak.

Sarah didn\'t respond to Evalina\'s question. She observed the apartment.

From her investigation, Sarah already knows that Evalina is living here by herself since she took over the identity of Ivanka Benson. The real Ivanka Benson is missing since then, and Sarah can only suspect that Evalina disposed of the woman. Ivanka was a solitary person, who didn\'t keep in touch with her mother who lives on the East coast for more than exchanging Christmas cards. Without family or friends, she was the perfect target for Evalina.

Sarah walked into the bedroom and paused at the life-sized framed photo of Aiden hanging on the wall, opposite of the king size bed.

Aiden is standing on the street, lazily leaning on the pillar with right hand in his pocket while holding a large paper bag in his left. Sarah recognizes that pillar, it\'s in front of the bakery which is close to the White corp. HQ. They go there sometimes to get pastries for an afternoon snack. And based on the shoes he is wearing, she can tell that the photo is recent. They bought those shoes together, no more than two months ago…\'Is this red stitching on dark brown leather OK?\', she can hear his voice. He always cared about what he wears. That photo is taken probably when he waited for Sarah to come out of the bakery. Every time, she forgets to get something extra, a sweet pastry usually, and he waits for her outside.

Sarah gritted her teeth at the thought how this despicable woman is looking at her handsome fiancé before going to sleep. And even after she shoot him twice, she is still having this photo here.

Sarah removed the photo from the wall and gently ran her fingers over the outline of Aiden\'s smile before slamming the frame on the edge of the side table, breaking the glass. She got the photo out and tore it into pieces before moving to the next room.

Next room is an office. Desk is littered with photos. Aiden again, mostly. On few photos is Sarah as well, and she can see that Evalina used black marker to scribble randomly over Sarah\'s face.

Corkboard with notes pinned to it… schedules, photos, dates… things related to Aiden.

Sarah has to admit that Evalina is committed.

Two more bedrooms and a kitchen later, Sarah returned to the living room.

Evalina is on the sofa while Jesse and Haru are watching over her. Her hands are tied behind her back, preventing her to sit comfortably.

Sarah glanced at Haru and Jesse. "This is a good apartment. We will keep it."

Evalina\'s frown deepened. 

Sarah ignored Evalina\'s obvious displeasure and soundless protests. She injected Evalina in the neck with JoAnna\'s concoction which allows for absolute obedience.

Sarah instructed Jesse and Haru to collect all items related to Aiden from the apartment while she went through Evalina\'s purse. She found the gun in there.

Sarah placed three cameras for Eve. Two inside the apartment, with a view of the entry door from different angles, and one on the outside to get a view of who wants to enter the apartment.

"Let\'s go." Sarah instructed after untying Evalina.

Evalina was shocked that her body is obeying Sarah\'s commands without resisting. She was still unable to talk! Evalina involuntarily stood up and walked out. She even smiled at the neighbor when they exited the elevator!

Jesse and Haru were surprised to see that Evalina who was kicking and biting them previously now is following Sarah\'s instructions obediently, but Sarah told them that they can accompany her only under the condition that they don\'t ask any questions. So, they kept their questions to themselves.

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