Is this destiny?

Chapter 701 - JoAnna Meets Jesse (2)

Luckily, JoAnna has everything necessary handy: gauze, medical grade pliers, surgical gloves, and anesthetic.

JoAnna pulled Jesse's tooth out like a professional dentist.

"You are too happy about this." Sarah observed.

"It's a wiggle followed by a pull with a twist." JoAnna grinned while cleaning the tooth from blood in some liquid she got from who knows where. "And if you don't grab low enough, the crown will break and the root stays inside. I would not know that if not for Dodson brothers. No matter how much I read about it, nothing compares with practice… a lot of practice."

This made Sarah and Aiden remember Sarah's birthday party at Hill family villa. Yes, at that time, JoAnna relieved Dodson brothers of their teeth.

Those bastards who dared to hurt Aiden! Sarah wondered: What happened with those triplets? She didn't hear anything about them after they left them in that shed with Klark sisters. And she didn't hear anything about Klark sisters either. It's probably for the better.

Sarah visually examined the clean tooth. "Where is it?"

"Look." JoAnna gestured toward the screen which showed magnified x-ray-like image of the tooth. "It's inside the crown. There is a white filling on top of it."

"How can we remove the filling?" Sarah hopes to remove the filling and extract the device so that she can examine it.

"I have just the right stuff!" JoAnna proudly announced.

Few minutes later, JoAnna fiddled with some gadgets and bottles in her hands. "Last few days I'm spending on this floor, checking out what they have here. This is something like a storage."

"Ah, that is why I don't see other people here." Sarah observed.

"Yes. Things that fail get disposed of, and things that work end up here. Depending on how cost efficient is to make them, some of these become products. But if the profit is not satisfactory, things just stay here. These are prototypes, and some of the machines available here are fascinating. And it's not just machines, there are medications and organic matter as well. The whole floor is a storage." JoAnna explained while her eyes sparkled.

"I see that the mad scientist is awake.", Sarah teased.

JoAnna glared at Sarah for a second before getting busy with the tooth.

"Where is Bridgette?" Sarah finally noticed that her friend should be close to JoAnna.

"I don't need her here. She is working from Steve's office.", JoAnna explained without removing her focus from the tooth. She used some gadget to scrape off the top of the filling and then dipped the remainder of the tooth is some liquid. It didn't take long to cleanly extract the small device.

"Is this what you were looking for?" JoAnna was holding the device between tweezers.

Both Aiden and Sarah leaned closer to get a better look.

Sarah shrugged indicating that she is not sure. "It could be. Do you have a microscope here? And some exposed wire…" Sarah listed few things.

JoAnna pointed toward one door on the side. "Check in there."

Not long after, Sarah was done with her examination. "This is a tracking device. Battery is dead. I can't tell when it died."

Sarah turned to Jesse who had a puffed left cheek because of a ball of cotton he was biting onto in order to stop the bleeding after the tooth extraction.

"You said you went to dentist last time two years ago?"

Jesse nodded.

"No battery this small will last two years. But if you went to the same dentist every six months, they could replace the device without you knowing… This explains why they stopped coming after you. When battery died, they had no way of locating you."

Jesse listened to Sarah and confirmed her assumption. Since Shadow Ravens recruited him, he went to the same dentist.

Sarah turned to Aiden. "We can give this to Felix to examine. Lately he became an expert in small tracking devices. Maybe he finds out something useful."

"We will have dinner together. Join us. It's in…" JoAnna checked time, "…three hours."

Sarah and Aiden accepted and JoAnna texted Jeff and Steve that Sarah and Aiden will join, so that they update reservation.

They sent Jesse back to the hallway and discussed if they should take him with them to the dinner or send him back home. They decided to keep him close.

"He wants to be a bodyguard, let's treat him like one.", Aiden had difficulty saying this.

Based on Aiden's cold tone, Sarah can tell that he is still not very happy about this. But she is confident that in time Aiden will warm up to Jesse. Maybe.

JoAnna called Bob1 and instructed him to show Jesse around and to get him to wait with other bodyguards.

"What happened with Charlie's treatment?", Sarah asked JoAnna when Jesse left with Bob1.

"I told him that I can fix his legs, but at this point I'm 35% confident that he will walk again. Felix will create custom parts, and I will perform the surgery where I will remove his bones and all fragments and replace with parts that Felix created. After surgery I can update estimate on success rate."

"Only 35%?", Sarah frowned.

JoAnna also doesn't like such low number, but she needs to be realistic. "I don't want to give him false hopes. His legs are severely damaged. His muscles healed around bone fragments, and I will need to reopen those in order to pull the bones out. But success will mostly depend on how he adapts to the new material in his body, and on the physiotherapy after."

Sarah nodded in understanding. "What did Charlie say?"

JoAnna smiled. "He wanted me to operate on him next day. But I told him it will need to wait until October first. Until then he has a chance to change his mind."

"I don't think he will change his mind. His legs are useless now, and you are giving him one in three chance that he can get his mobility back. Why would he give up on that?" Sarah paused. "Wait… October first? Aren't you on your honeymoon then?"

"We decided cut our honeymoon down to two weeks." JoAnna explained. "Out of that, about one week we will enjoy privacy and other we will travel. Another two weeks we will spend at home while taking it easy, but there is a lot to do, and we can't disconnect for a full month. I think that even two weeks is too much."

"I'm sorry about that." Sarah is sad to see that her sister can't enjoy one month with her man.

"Don't be. As much as I would like to spend time with Jeff without any responsibilities, I'm sure that I will miss keeping busy soon…" JoAnna assured Sarah and continued: "You two, on the other hand, can take six months off and not miss anything. You are used to work from anywhere while enjoying life."

Sarah smiled and looked at Aiden. "What do you say? Six months long honeymoon?"

Aiden was surprised that she spoke about their honeymoon so easily. After a second of shock her pulled her into a tight hug. "My love, our whole lives together will be one endless honeymoon."

Sarah hugged him back and returned his loving gaze. "I can't say 'no' to that."

"Ah!", JoAnna exclaimed. "Do you two even know I'm here?!"

"Seeing you like that… now I need to go and see Jeff. I want a hug also!" JoAnna pouted while texting Jeff to see if it's a good time for her to stop by his office.

Sarah and Aiden laughed.

"Don't worry, we will not hold you back… we are going to do some work before dinner..", Sarah said as she walked out with Aiden.