“Let’s go out.” She said, opening the door and a wave of cold wind entered. It was chilly and Aiden saw that she out her hands on either of her shoulders to warm up her almost bare body. “I don’t think so. It’s kind of cold and you’re uh—” Aiden trailed, he didn’t know how he would convey that she was barely dressed without sounding rude or insensitive. “In stripper clothes?” She chuckled, completing his statement. She didn’t understand why he was so flustered to just state the matter–of–fact, but she found it cute that he was being skeptical about it. “It doesn’t matter. I’m used to it, I think. Let’s go out.” She repeated and led the way, stepping out of the building. Aiden followed, wishing he had brought a jacket along so he could give it to her to shield the cold. She walked all the to a nearby car and leaned on it, Aiden did the same, leaning beside her. He had just noticed now that she was holding a can of beer, a rolled up joint and a lighter in her other hand. “Beer?” S

He spun around, and his eyes quickly noticed familiar faces at the far end of the room having a heated conversation with an unfamiliar face. He squirmed his eyes, narrowing it down to them and saw that it was for sure Gabriel and the bodyguards. He ached his brows, what were they doing there? And why were they arguing with that man? She watched him as he left his lounge table and made his way towards the other end of the room. Now that he was gone, it was her time to strike. Aiden walked over to the commotion. Gabriel and some guy were arguing. “I know you’re the manager but that doesn’t mean we get treated like tha—” “What’s going on Gabriel?” Aiden asked, cutting short Gabriel’s statement. Gabriel turned to him, “Oh Great, our General is here.” The manager also faced Aiden, quickly accessing his outlook and noting that he was a man of class. “I’m sorry sir, but are they affiliated to you?” The manager’s tone calmed down as he spoke to Aiden. Aiden felt complacent within, it’s

“What’s the cause of all the ruckus going on here? This is supposed to be a serene work environment for Christ’s sake! Why is there so much noise?” Gabriel began to scold the crowd, obviously not recognizing who those two unwanted faces were. “We’re so sorry sir. They barged in and we tried to stop them but we couldn’t, they were so preserve.” One of the security personnel tried to reason but Gabriel wasn’t hearing any of it. He knew the General wouldn’t like this uncalled for presence from these strangers.“And why are you just standing there and telling me sorry? Get them out of here or do you want you all’s asses fired on the first day?” Gabriel yelled and the security personnel sterned and made their way to try to hoist the two of them out of the premises. “Hold on.” Aiden halted and they did as they were told, leaving them alone at the immediate command but they were confused why the General had told them to wait. Gabriel was the most confused. “What are you doing here, Riley?

Aiden was seated across Katherine on their reserved table for two. Aiden was still in his clothes from earlier, while Katherine had actually really dressed up for this. She was in a red dress, clung and glued to her figure but in a kind of conservative way and not in a Friday night club way. Her hair was in a sleep bun and she had on golden jewelry, a golden belt around her waist and a golden pair of shoes and same golden–coloured bag.Wow. She was breathtakingly beautiful, as always and Aiden had almost forgotten about how gorgeous she looked. And it wasn’t helping matters that her lips were doused in red lipstick and her dressed dibbed low enough just to show an amount of cleavage. And anytime she leaned towards her plate to pick up the grapes in her appetizer and drop them into her mouth, he got quite the view. She wanted to distract him. But that won’t work. “So, Aiden. How’s your daughter?” She chewed on the grapes. “She’s fine. She went to register back at school today.”

Aiden was very much taken aback by the question. She really wanted a mother. She hadn’t explicitly talked about needing a mother before, so Aiden felt she was just saying so because she felt bad that she didn’t have one and her classmates did. Although, he knew she was bothered about it. In her former school, she had once complained that her classmates used to pick on her because she had never brought her mother for Bring Your Mum Day. And they usually bully her saying she was trash and that’s why her mother abandoned her. Aiden was livid when he heard it. And he knew that Hope was sad about her situation, but she never actually spoke about wanting a mother, up until now. Aiden had taken a vow to always make Hope happy and if she feels she needs a mother to be happy, then he would give her one. He thinks it’s high time he actually got her someone. And that meant he had to get married. But he had no one in mind, the only three women in his life were Riley who he would soon divorce