Heartbreak Hotel

Engaged

Ethan
I bought the engagement ring for Ariana because I want her to know I love her and want to marry her. I have asked Ray for his permission to marry her and he asked me a lot of questions and he was satisfied with my answers. So I am asking her this weekend and hoping she agrees to marry me. I have a year to go on my courses and to pass the tests for my license. I doubled up on my courses to get done sooner now that Kate is in Seattle I don't have to chaperone her activities any longer and I don't have any distractions.

Ariana
Ethan has a special place he wants to take me to. I'm not sure what is going on, but he told me to dress casually and warm. We arrive at an amusement park and he leads me to a favorite ride of his. The carousel of all things, I thought it might be a huge roller coaster or the Ferris wheel. He helps me aboard the carousel and I noted no one else got on it with us. He guides me to one of the benches on it and sitting there were flowers and a ring box. We sit down as the ride begins and he opens the ring box and asks me to marry him. I can't help myself and squeal out yes. The ring has a pink princess diamond with pink and white diamonds around it. The diamond matches my Pinkie Leigh VW in color. Ethan threatens to buy me a new pink car to replace poor Pinkie but I refuse. We kiss a lot and the ride has stopped and we head to my place to watch a movie he picked out for tonight.

Ethan
Dad was angry about my decision to marry Ariana but mom stood up for us. She likes Ariana. If I told dad the truth about Ariana he would push for the marriage sooner, but I am not marrying Ariana for her wealth. I only just found out about by way of Ray and his prenuptial agreement. Wow that was some reading. I signed it after reading and agreeing to all of it. Ray has excellent attorneys.

Kate
I just found out about Ethan intending on marrying Ariana and it surprised me at best. Mom is all for it. I just can't picture Ethan married at all. But he has came up to Seattle every weekend to see Ariana. So I guess they were getting very serious about each other. She's finally an editor at Grey publishing. But Anastasia is now her boss of sorts. She is in charge of certain editors and part of the ebook editors and that is where Ariana works. So far they are not bumping heads. I guess Anastasia just gives her the assignments and expects no more or no less than she would of the others she leads. She plays no favorites and expects deadlines to be met.

Ray
Ariana told me she said yes to Ethan's proposal and they are getting married after he gets his license. We have plenty of time to plan the wedding. Daisy has finally got her audits done and has hired people to take place of the people she fired and had arrested including several of her attorneys. There were a lot of applicants for the jobs and she hired headhunters to go through and set up interviews at the hotel. The attorneys were another matter. She hired the most reputable one in New York and in Seattle. Carrick Grey took her on as a client. Which I hoped he would. Soon we found out that she was supposed to get everything at 18 years old and not 21 like her old attorneys were telling her.

Carrick
Imagine my surprise that Daisy Adams was the 18 year old daughter of Carla Morton, Anastasia and Ariana's late mother. Ray asked me to take her on as a client and I didn't hesitate. I knew there was an heir to the Adams estate but hadn't known who it was yet. I think Christian has been trying to do business with the company for a while and here is the heir in my office. I just can't believe it, but I also can't tell Christian either. He has his resources he will discover soon enough who he needs to talk to about the business with the Adams company.
I get the documents I need to go through all the legal paperwork to get her estate handed over to her. The attorneys will be facing disbarment depending on what they did regarding holding her estate from her. I will make sure that they face sone type of punishment for their actions. She is having the executives come to her along with the new attorneys of record. The old attorneys can't leave New York right now.

Christian
Taylor informed me that the young lady that met with Anastasia and Ariana was Daisy Mae Adams who happens to be another of Carla Morton's children. He then tells me she is the ever elusive heir to the Adams estate and as such the owner of the Adams company and the person that I need to speak to about doing some business with at this point. I have him try to get me a meeting if he can since he has met her and her security.

Taylor
I am going to be the go between for Christian and miss Adams and setting up the meeting to talk about doing business with him on certain projects he needs their product lines to finish each of his projects to launch them on time. It is things like this that drive me crazy, because he could just talk to the Steele family and they could just ask her to meet with him without my involvement in setting it up. I think he is still embarrassed about having sex with Ariana and thinking it was Anastasia and insulting her. I think Anastasia knew he thought he was talking to Ariana and didn't take it to heart.