Chapter 886 - Sigma army at the Chateau (2) (1/2)

Next morning, Mishi arrived with his girlfriend Eliza in time to join Sarah, Aiden, Lucija and Petar for breakfast.

Marija, Emir and Tereza reached the Chateau few hours later. Emir was happy that they didn't miss the lunch.

Lunch was lively with nine friends who were catching up on last few months.

”That is?”, Marija raised her eyebrows and pointed at Sarah's left hand. She didn't miss the engagement ring.

Sarah leaned into Aiden's embrace and stated with a big smile. ”We are engaged.”

After a round of congratulations, Emir said: ”I hope we are invited to the wedding.”

Sarah glanced at Aiden who responded without removing his gaze from her. ”Absolutely.”

Emir was happy and so was everyone else. Their excitement dampened a bit when they found out that Sarah and Aiden didn't pick the wedding date.

Sarah felt sorry seeing that the mood dropped, and she chimed in: ”We didn't pick a wedding date, but I imagine that it will happen in late spring, or summer. In a meadow surrounded with wildflowers.”

Aiden looked at her cryptically and Sarah was sure that his mental notepad was writing that down. If he knew that she only described her dream, he would probably not be so attentive about it. She will need to explain him later.

”We are planning to go horse riding in the afternoon.” Sarah announced. ”Let us know if you want to join. This stable has few horses, but if we need more, we can get from the neighboring property. They are renting horses.”

”Wah! Even horses!” Tereza exclaimed. ”Boss, you really did a great job in getting this place for our meeting. After our falling out with Nick, I was afraid that we will not have a second location. This is amazing! I wish we can meet here every time.”

”We can.”, Sarah smiled and added: ”We own the place.”

Six people stared at Sarah without moving. Eliza requested a translation from Mishi, but he was also non-responsive.

After few seconds, they burst into 'Ohs' and 'Ahs' and wanted to know the details.

”Boss, this place is just too awesome!”, Emir exclaimed.

When they calmed down, Sarah wanted to come up with a tentative schedule for next few days.

”Today we rest and hang out. And horse riding. Since everyone is here, after we are done with lunch, we will give you a tour of our humble Chateau. Tomorrow, let's spend time in the tech room and we can do a round of coding battles. Besides what we usually do, I want us to attack each other; one will have some time to set up defenses before the attacker starts, and defender can continue working during the attack. We can even do this in teams.” Sarah's suggestion earned her a lot of nods. She continued: ”Day after tomorrow we can discuss battle analysis and do more if anyone is interested. That day Aiden and me will be away for few hours in the afternoon… and day after that we can allocate for a day trip to Paris…”

The rest of the day went by fast.

Sarah enjoyed view of Aiden on a horse. He looks very regal while his magnificent completely black Friesian horse trotted proudly like he knew that he is carrying a Greek God on his back.

The experience was a bit spoiled with Marija who was ogling at Aiden. Sarah told herself that she needs to install some filter so that she does not see Marija's despicable behavior. Why can't she control herself? Is she doing this on purpose, or she thinks that no one is noticing?