"Aeryn."

"Aeryn."

"Aeryn", the voice said a bit louder this time.

Why does everyone has to ruin my beauty sleep?

I slowly opened my eyes and came face to face with Everette who was glaring at me, his face showed signs of displeasure.

"I just woke up. What did I do now?", I questioned.

His lips were pressed into a thin line and gestured down to his hand. I looked down and saw I was holding onto his hand tightly as if my life was dependent on it.

A blush crept up my neck and I immediately removed my hand feeling embarrassed.

Rolling his eyes, he got up and went inside the washroom.

What a start to the morning!

Yawning, I got up and firstly messaged Harper inquiring about the restaurant as I left it in her care.

I spent the next fifteen minutes scrolling through the phone. The door of the washroom opened and Everette stepped out dressed in a black suit.

"Are you going somewhere?"

He was standing infront of the mirror combing his hair, he glanced at me through the mirror. "Yes. Business meeting."

"Oh. Good. Enjoy there", I said sarcastically.

One side of his lips curled up into a smirk. "You are coming with me."

"What?!"

"You are coming with me to the meeting. I am not leaving you here. God knows what you will do."

I got and placed both my hands on my hip. "I am not a kid. I can take care of myself. I am not going to some boring meeting with you."

He put down the comb and came closer to me. His cologne invaded my mind. Mmm... that's a nice cologne.

"Get ready, Aeryn. We will get late. I won't repeat myself."

"I am not going with you. And even I won't repeat myself."

He turned away from me and muttered, "Fine. Don't come with me. I was thinking of exploring a few places after the meeting with you."

"Give me twenty minutes", I mumbled walking past him and into the washroom.

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I opened my hair letting it fall over my shoulder and checked myself in the mirror.

Grabbing my handbag I went out in the living room where he was waiting for me. He looked up from his phone and scanned me for a second before subtly nodding and asked me to follow him.

A car was waiting for us outside and we both slipped in as the car moved.

Half an hour later, the car stopped infront of a skyscraper.

Hamilton Enterprises.

Once Everette got out, he held out his hand for me to hold and I placed my hand in his. His warm fingers intertwining with mine.

"We are supposed to act like real couples", he whispered in my ear dragging me along with him.

"Understood."

We walked inside the building and there was a man waiting for us at the reception. On seeing us he quickly came forward.

"Welcome, Mr and Mrs Wilbrose", he greeted. "I am Benjamin Hans, Mr Hamilton's personal assistant."

He extended his hand and Everette shook his hand, next he turned to me and I extended my hand too but instead he took it gently and lightly kissed my knuckles.

I smiled shyly at him and he smiled back before telling us to follow him.

Everette all of a sudden, pulled me closer and wrapped his hand tightly around my waist.

I could do nothing but play along with him.

We followed Benjamin into the elevator and he pressed the 20th floors button.

The elevator opened onto the 20th floor and we got out. Near the receptionist's table, another man was waiting for us and he smiled on seeing us stepped forward while Benjamin went and stood beside him.

Everette smiled too and they both shook their hands.

"Hello, Mr Hamilton", Everette greeted. He then pulled me even more closer. "And this is my lovely wife, Aeryn."

Lovely wife my foot!

Mr Hamilton smiled politely. "Nice to meet you, Mrs Wilbrose."

I smiled back. "Nice to meet you too, Mr Hamilton."

Mr Hamilton opened his mouth to speak but was cut off by someone's screaming.

He literally face slammed himself while shaking his head.

The screaming got louder and closer and we looked behind him to see a little boy being chased by two little girls. They all looked the same age. Around five.

The boy came running towards us and hid behind Mr Hamilton.

"Uncle, uncle!", he said in a hurry. And then pointed towards the girls. "They both are beating me."

Sighing, Mr Hamilton picked him up in his arms and then turned towards the girls. "Raven and Addison. Why are you both troubling him?"

"Dad", one of the girl said but was cut off by the other.

"Uncle, he broke our car!", she complained and it was then I noticed that the boy and the girl who addressed Mr Hamilton as uncle, they both were twins.

"Why did you break their cars?", Mr Hamilton asked the boy in a stern tone.

He shook his head innocently. "I didn't."

"He did!", both the girls said.

"Okay, kids! You all go inside right now, I will deal with you all later", he told and then turned towards us.

He smiled sheepishly. "I am sorry about about them." Then he pointed towards the twins. "They are my best mate/wife's brother's kids and she is my daughter. My wife is eight months pregnant and my best mate is busy at the moment while his wife is out of town, so I have the responsibility to look after them."

The children were still present there, they refused to go inside.

"No problem, Mr Hamilton", Everette said.

"Yes, they are adorable", I added.

Mr Hamilton chuckled. "Adorable? They are packet full of trouble. They are only adorable for the first few minutes after that they eat up your head."

The kids didn't look happy with the way they were introduced. The twin girl tugged on his legs. "Uncle, I want to introduce myself."

"Me too!", the boy said.

"Me too!", Mr Hamilton's daughter said.

"Fine", he mumbled before he picked the twin girl in his other arm.

"Hi! My name is Rafe and I am five years old", the boy introduced himself.

"And I am mom's favourite", he added making me chuckle.

"Hi! My name is Addison and I am also five years old. And I am both dad and mom's favourite", the girl said.

Mr Hamilton shook his head exasperatedly. "You are not supposed to say that in an introduction."

Both Everette and I, laughed softly.

He then put both of them down and took his daughter in his arms.

"Hi! My name is Raven and I am six years old", his daughter said and put her down.

I crouched down said, "Hi! My name is Aeryn and I am twenty seven years old."

"You are so old", Rafe said.

"Rafe! You don't say that", Mr Hamilton scolded him.

"Oh, it's fine, Mr Hamilton", I said and got up. "Do you mind if I play with them while you have your meeting?"

"Are you sure? Because they might look adorable but their actions are not", he warned.

"It's okay. I love kids."

He looked worried but smiled eventually and nodded.

His assistant, Benjamin took me and the kids to a room and Everette and Mr Hamilton left for their meeting.

The room was quite large and the walls were painted with the princesses and cartoons. There was a door that led to a small washroom and another door that led to a small kitchen. The floor was littered with different toys, a small slide and various other things.

"I hope you will be okay with them", Benjamin said.

"Yes, of course."

Nodding he left.

There was a small couch and I went and sat there and watched them play with each other.

Initially, they were playing peacefully. The three of them were having a car race.

Raven lost the race but Addison and Rafe's cars had a tie.

"I won!", Rafe exclaimed happily.

Addison got up and smacked his head. "No, I won."

Rafe shoved her. "No, I won!"

Addison pouted angrily and screamed, "I won! You didn't!"

Before they start beating each other, I instantly got up and went over to them.

"Umm...why don't you both again have a race and then decide", I advised them and the three of them looked at me curiously.

"Good idea, Aarin", Addison spoke.

"Umm... it's Aeryn not Aarin", I corrected her.

"Aarin", she tried to say Aeryn but couldn't pronounce it.

"Nevermind", I said. "You can call me anything."

She nodded and turned to her brother. "Let's race again."

I sighed when they start to have another race and I went and sat on the couch again.

I didn't pay much attention to them as I was busy using my phone, scrolling through Instagram.

I don't know why but that boy with those deep blue eyes appeared in my mind and I sighed. I don't know where he is. Is he okay?

Tears started to form in my eyes and I quickly blinked them away and stopped thinking about him.

If destiny wants, I will meet him again someday.

Besides that, I can't do anything.

Time passed and I was still sitting in the same place but now I had my head in my hands cause it started paining.

Why?

Because for the last fifteen minutes these three are running around the room continuously and they were shouting too. Non stop.

I tried to stop them but they threatened to beat me and throw me out of the room. Seriously?

Now I understand why Mr Hamilton was so worried about me.

All of a sudden, the noise reduced and I lifted my head and saw that the girls were now playing with their Barbie dolls.

Rafe walked to me and pointed towards my phone. "I want that."

"Why don't you go and play with your sisters?"

"No! I want the phone!"

I gripped the phone tightly. "I am not giving it to you."

He shouted. "Phone!"

I shook my head and he turned around and ran to the kitchen. He came back a second later with a knife in his hand.

The hell!

He pointed the knife towards me. "Phone!"

Oh my goodness!

I unlocked my phone and promptly handed it to him. He dropped the knife and I picked it up.

He grinned and took the phone from my hand and settled on the couch beside me.

That five year old kid opened You Tube, went to the search bar, selected the option of voice search and put on a video that was showing different toy cars in it.

My jaw dropped.

Before I could react, both Addison and Raven came to me.

"Aarin, I am hungry", Addison said.

"Me too", Raven added.

"Uh...okay...what do you want to eat?"

"Apple!", they both said together.

O-kay...

I went into that small kitchen and found some apples there. I cut them into small pieces and taking a fork with me, went outside.

Once settled on the couch, both the girls sat on the floor and asked me to feed them.

So, that's what I did.

I fed them the apple and they both looked so adorable while eating.

Half way through feeding them, I felt someone's gaze on me.

I lifted my head and looked towards the door where I found Everette leaning against the doorway, looking at me with a small smile on his face.