Is this destiny?

Charlie smiled smugly when he saw that his second Uncle lowered his head in surrender.

"David!" Charlie growled and everyone flinched. "Get out of my bed! And take your tramp with you. If any of you two is in this house one hour from now, I will make sure that you are unable to leave the property ever again."

Jarred watched all this from the side with amusement swirling in his eyes. Yes, Charlie will do fine.

"OK. The show is over!" Charlie\'s third Uncle, Samuel, exclaimed while shooing the people away from the room. "There is nothing left to see. Go back to the party."

Aileen stood there, frozen. She didn\'t dare move a muscle. Is this how it ends? Damnit! She didn\'t manage to touch Emma. Well, there is the next time. At least David is banished, and that is good. Now her parents will give her more things because her brother is useless.

The onlookers reluctantly exited the room and returned to the party. They were all curious how Thomas Smith, second in power in the family will handle this issue with his son, but they were being chased away.

Thomas, Caroline, David, Aileen, and the maid were left in the room.

The maid scooted off the bed and she was dressing up swiftly.

"Dad! She set me up!" David whined while pointing at his sister.

Aileen snorted. "Why are you dragging me into this? Did I tell you to come to this room and screw the maid?"

"No. You told me to come here and wait for Emma!"

Aileen looked at her mother. "Mom, do you hear this? How can I tell Emma to come here and sleep with David? He is obviously making it up just so that he is not the only one at fault."

"You lying bitch!" David screamed.

Aileen waved her hands defensively. "You are the one caught with your pants down. Why are you trying to drag me into the mud with you? I was at the party."

"Yes…" Thomas said suspiciously. "You were at the party. Everyone heard you telling Charlie how Emma held hands with a man and entered this room."

Aileen pouted. "I made a mistake, daddy. But I was right about something fishy happening in this room."

Thomas rubbed his temples. He does not have the energy to deal with all this. No matter what happened and how much Aileen is involved in this, Charlie is set to get David out of the family, and Thomas needs to address that issue first. "David, go pack your things."

"You are kidding…" David said in disbelief. "You are going to listen to what Charlie said?"

"We don\'t have a choice!" Thomas hissed. "Pack things for a few days and go to a hotel. We need time to find a way out of this."

David was not willing to accept this. "And while you are figuring out things, what should I do?"

Thomas was losing his composure. "Wait in the hotel and try not to mess up the situation more. What did I tell you about not causing a scene!?"

"Honey, watch your blood pressure…" Caroline reminded Thomas.

Thomas took a few deep breaths and looked at David. "Do as I say. Or you will be out of the Smith family permanently. When you settle in the hotel, let me know where you are and we will come in the morning. Then you can tell us how you found yourself in this mess and we will think of a way to reverse the situation. Now, we need to return to the party."

David looked at his parents leaving the room and he was sure that Aileen threw him a smug glance, but he had no time to argue with her now. He needs to pack!

"Young Master Smith…" The maid called timidly.

"Get out!" David shouted.

The maid was startled. Just ten minutes ago he was all over her, caressing her and telling her how she is amazing, and now he is like a wild beast. How uncultured. She lifted her head and walked out with a goal to talk to the butler. She hopes that at least she can get some severance pay before she leaves this wretched mansion. The whole family is crazy.

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Charlie led Emma to the study room and locked the door behind them.

"Are you OK?" Charlie asked with concern obvious in his voice.

Before Emma could respond, he pulled her in his embrace.

"Zula was there on time. She is reliable." Emma assured Charlie while wrapping her arms around him. "I am fine. Everything was according to the plan..."

After an unknown measure of time, Charlie released Emma from his hold, and they sat on the sofa.

"Tell me what happened. I want to know everything." Charlie demanded.

Emma started from the beginning and how she met Aileen in the restroom and Charlie listened intently.

When Emma didn\'t return from the restroom within a few minutes, Charlie knew that something happened. And when Aileen approached him in front of everyone and told him that Emma entered the room with a man, Charlie knew that Aileen is the one behind the plot.

Charlie was aware that Thomas and Caroline instigated him in the hallway on purpose, demanding that the person in the room (aka Emma) gets banished and that he should break the engagement. Regardless if Emma was inside or not, that family sealed their fate.

Charlie held onto that doorknob and prayed silently that Zula managed to save Emma from whatever plot Aileen made, and that the person in the room is not Emma. He sent a maid to that room, as Zula asked him to do, but did the maid make it? His heart constricted with every moan which drifted from that room because it confirmed that a man and a woman are inside. 

Charlie felt relief wash over him when he saw that David is in the bed with a maid. At the same time, his blood boiled because he realized that what David said is true: the woman in the bed was supposed to be Emma!

And there was another question, where is Emma?

David has bad intentions, but he is not the scheming type. He is a young man who prefers sleeping with women and enjoying the perks his wealth is providing him. David is not greedy for power and his ambition to lead the family is coming from Thomas, but David is easily manipulated. How can anyone think that David is a good leader, is beyond Charlie. On the other side, Charlie understands why Thomas was adamant for David to get in power. If David gets the position of the patriarch, Thomas would be able to use David\'s incompetence and pull the strings of the Smith family at his will. David would be a perfect puppet.

"I am sorry you had to go through that." Charlie said when Emma finished the story.

"This is fine, Charlie. Please, don\'t treat me like a delicate princess. I am ready to get my hands dirty, if that will secure our future together. This drama ended well and after tonight, everyone will know not to mess with you, or me."

"How are you feeling now? Do you want to rest?"

Emma refused. "I don\'t think I will dare to rest in this house. If I need to sleep here, I will do it with my eyes open."

"Your hands are shaky." Charlie noticed. He assumed that it\'s due to the stress of what Emma went through.

"Aileen gave me muscle relaxant that made me feel tired, and Anna gave me the opposite to counter those effects. I feel like I had too much coffee and I have extra energy that I need to burn. There will be no consequences. It will wear off in two-three hours on its own, but if I get some exercise, it might happen faster." Emma explained without using medical terms, so that Charlie can understand.

Charlie\'s face lit up. "That simple?"

Emma confirmed.

"I can help you burn some of that excess energy." Charlie said with a sly smile and kissed her on the lips.

"Do we have time for this?" Emma asked when Charlie started kissing her neck.

"I always have time for you…" Charlie murmured, and his hand made its way under her dress. "And this is medical treatment..."

Emma giggled. Medical treatment, right! She lifted her behind, so that Charlie can remove her panties. The party is ongoing, but there is no better way to burn that extra energy than with Charlie.

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