Is this destiny?

~ Austin, the White Mansion ~

Sunday

JoAnna woke up and smiled. There is nothing better than waking up in the arms of her husband. Well, in one arm… with the other one he is holding his phone, checking emails. Ah, her awesome husband is always busy. And as much as she admires all that he can accomplish, she wishes that he is less busy. Since all this White family business were added on top of White corp., it is really too much. Steve is helping, but there is a limit how much he can do.

As part of the solution to find some breather for Jeff, they discussed options for merger of Orion Enterprise with White corp. and Jeff and Sophia have a great plan in place. OE will be part of White corp., but it will keep its independence in the areas of security software and devices which are offered to customers while most of other departments will be joined with White corp. With that deal, software and devices departments from White corp. will move under Orion Enterprise. They still didn\'t decide if that will include Aiden\'s team which is doing… sensitive work, but those are details which they can figure out later.

They are at the stage where Sophia needs to talk to Stella and Edward, but she believes that they will approve, because security area is the core of Orion Enterprise and with this, it will maintain its independence. Once that goes through, Sophia and Jeff will discuss sharing the workload so that they can be each other\'s backup.

Sophia still struggles with finding herself a new assistant. There are plenty of qualified candidates, and she interviewed at least a hundred of them, but Sophia can\'t find a person she trusts. She said it\'s something related to the intuition and an immediate bond between people and that it can\'t be explained because you can feel it when it happens. It is difficult to find a replacement for Leah.

JoAnna likes the idea of Jeff having a trustworthy and capable person who can serve as his backup and Sophia definitely matches that description: trustworthy and capable. Jeff having a backup means more cuddle time with his wife and considering that she is expecting… he will need all the work-free time he can get. Ah, only few more days until she tells him! She is super excited!

Back to present…

JoAnna turned and sprawled herself on top of Jeff.

"Do we have a busy day today?", she asked while rubbing her face on his chest.

"Not really. If you want you can start opening the presents. Other than that, we don\'t have anything going on until lunch, so feel free to relax. I\'m just following up on few things."

JoAnna lit up. \'Free time until lunch?\'

She pouted while thinking that even with free time he is checking his messages.

"What are you following up on?", she wiggled upward while trying to see the screen on his phone.

"Miss Bell is getting impatient."

JoAnna stopped her movements and made a silly face. "I forgot about her."

Jeff chuckled. "What do you want to do with her?"

JoAnna thought how this needs to be handled in several steps. She wants to slap that shameless woman until her cheeks fall off, but at the same time to get the information she is holding on Marcus. Also, JoAnna is curious about that woman\'s motives because she is strangely persistent and few things don\'t add up: in the files, it says that Kyra Bell is intelligent and manipulative. How did that person end up in the hands of Lukas White?

They can get all the information out of Miss Bell with the help of the truth serum, but JoAnna wants to think what will come first, and enjoy the process of teaching that bed climber just what mistake she made by coveting her husband… and right now JoAnna wants to enjoy with this handsome man below her and not think about bed climbers so…"I\'m not sure yet. Let her wait."

Jeff tapped his phone and called a person who obviously expected it: "Tell her that I am busy, and I will see her as soon as I can. If she complains, remind her that she promised last night obedience and that she will not get in my way. This is her chance to prove it."

He ended the call and looked at JoAnna expecting a praise.

JoAnna kissed his chin and wiggled downward.

Jeff thought that she is silly. Adorable, but silly. He loves when she goofs around.

"What do you want to do until lunch?", he asked while enjoying the sight of her smile.

Lately she is mostly grumpy, and this is a pleasant change to how she used to be until recently.

JoAnna wiggled her eyebrows playfully: "I want to open a present… The one that keeps on giving..."

She continued moving lower and pulled a cover over her head.

Jeff hissed when he felt JoAnna take him into her mouth. Ah, his wife has an amazing idea what do to until lunch… and he figured out what the present is, the one that keeps on giving... 

…

Sophia and Felix spent the morning in meetings. They want to discuss pressing issues with relevant people and establish relationships how much possible before lunch, because after lunch they are heading back to Los Angeles. Both of them are missing their Lia.

Sophia spent first half of the morning with Mason and three of his subordinates, understanding their intelligence network and the flow of information.

Felix met early morning with Ryder and several of his subordinates to discuss current resources and devices they are using. They brought samples of devices for Felix to see.

Later in the morning, Felix and Ryder joined Sophia and Mason and they had a good session related to topics on information and devices.

Sophia was pleasantly surprised to see on the map all the locations and facilities that they have available. The White family underground (aka The White Foundation) is much larger than she originally thought.

She smiled when she saw that Felix is already calculating how much surveillance equipment will be necessary to upgrade existing systems.

…

Sarah and Aiden also had an early start. The two of them were accompanied by Jesse to handle things related to taking over Shawn\'s previous position. They met with people who previously reported to Shawn to discuss the current situation and future plans.

Previously, they announced that whoever is interested in going up the ranks to come to the grounds in the morning. For this occasion, close to two hundred people who are working for White family as fighters or spies gathered.

Oni, Zula and Ron were in charge of physical assessments. Allen, Julius, Tejan, Daniel observed all this and helped their seniors when needed.

Sarah and Aiden discussed with Jesse options for managing all these people who are working for the White family and decided to form teams of people. Each team will have a lead, and they will work on variety of assignments from gathering information, retrieving items to locating and beating up people. It is unpleasant, but sometimes it needs to be done.

Each team lead will need to pass a variety of assessments, in addition to physical ones. And the ones who pass will go through training.

It is a process, but at the end of it, they will have a solid hierarchy in place that will help them manage their troops better.

If all goes well, the first round of assessments will be completed by the end of the day, and next time they will meet only with the ones who passed.

They all took a break for lunch.

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