This chapter feels very weak and I'm sorry for that but the fanfic website kept reloading and expiring the page I was on. I hope you like it either way and thank you for the reviews...

Carla was back at Underworld where she belonged after all the wedding stuff. She was getting on with her few hours of work before she needed to collect Hayley from Ken's. She was doing her daily tasks as usual ranging from sorting meetings with potential clients and seeking out cheaper options for suppliers as well as looking for new machinists. This also meant she was going through the accounts to check her finance. That was when she came across something odd, it was cash withdrawals sometimes twice a month and this made her feel somewhat anxious that someone was fiddling the books, she decided not to say anything and see if more occurred this month or if they were in some sort of pattern.

"Hey" Aidan smiles sitting at the desk beside Carla as she looks through her Vogue magazine "I see you're being very productive"

"What do you think of these shoes?" Carla questions whilst she chews on her pen as Aidan looks at the shoes and scrunches his nose up

"Um…they're shoes…?" Aidan questions nervously as Carla pins a death stare on him "They're nice…really nice"

"Hmm, can I ask you a question?" Carla asks as Aidan gestures for her to continue "You would tell me if you were in some sort of financial trouble wouldn't you?"

"What?" Aidan scoffs "Where's all this come from?"

"Nothing…don't worry-"

"Hello, guys" Johnny smiles entering the room "What are you all talking about then?"

"Carla was wondering if I was in financial trouble" Aidan chuckles as Johnny laughs as well causing Carla to raise her eyebrows in response at why her thought was so funny to them

"Why would you suggest that, love?" Johnny questions as Carla smiles slightly in response she decided that she would just say that she was being stupid

"I'm just being stupid, ignore me" Carla smiles before glancing to her watch "Right I need to go and collect Hayley from Ken's, try not to burn the place down whilst I'm gone"

"Ok, bye then," Aidan says wanting to get her out of the door as Carla leans against the door frame smiling at him and Johnny sarcastically before she headed off to Kens. She knocked on the door of Number One greeted by Tracy who gestures for her to come in Hayley's cries erupting around the room.

"Oh baby, what's up with you" Carla whispers taking her off Ken to hold her close as her cries soften "It's ok, I'm here now. What happened?"

"She's just been unhappy that's all, we tried to get her to walk but she got a bit frustrated with the whole thing" Ken informs her as Hayley continues to whimper into Carla's chest.

"So it was nothing too traumatic and she's just being a drama queen?" Carla questions to Ken who nods in agreement "Right let's get you home yeah? Thanks for this Ken, I plan on sending her to nursery when she's old enough to get some other interactions"

"That's a good idea. I always make sure we do some things for her development, I took her to the park today and pushed her on the swings gently let her hold leafs and stuff like that, she's so into everything"

"Yeah and don't I know it" Carla smiles as Ken nods "Thanks again for this"

"Not a problem Carla" Ken smiles as he watches Carla sort out Hayley's pram and placing her in it which causes her to cry even louder

"Hayley, just chill" Carla groans chucking her blanket over her "We're off, see you tomorrow?"

"See you tomorrow Carla" Ken nods as she leaves the building, she decides she would pop in and see Peter first knowing it might calm Hayley down if he was there.

"Hey baby" Carla smiles pushing the pram into the bookies as Peter ignores her; his eyes fixed on the tv "Peter?"

"Sorry, love" Peter grins as Hayley starts to cry "Oh dear we are unhappy"

"We are" Carla grunts in response "She's been miserable for you dad so I'm going to take her home for a nap, I just thought that maybe if she had a cuddle with you she would calm down a bit"

"Ok" Peter laughs as Carla hands Hayley to him "Hey beautiful girl, are you going to be good for your mum?"

"No" Carla replies, it was already a given "I can sense a meltdown impending"

"Oh right," Peter laughs handing Hayley back to Carla as she smiles widely at her daughter as well as kissing her cheek gently this caused Peter's heart to fill with warmth "How's your day been then?"

"Odd" Carla remarks as Peter raises an eyebrow at her weird reply "I'll tell you more later, I best get this little one back before she gets out of routine"

"Alright, love" Peter smiles giving her a quick peck on the lips "Bye Hayles"

"Say goodbye to daddy" Carla prompts as Hayley screams in response "Ok, we're going before you do me for a loss of custom, see you later"

Carla headed home with the thought of the odd cash withdrawals on the Underworld current account, she tried her best to block them out but there was just something mysterious about it. Luckily she put a copy of the books on her laptop so she could analyse them a bit more that afternoon whilst Hayley had a nap. Carla looked through the endless columns of figures specifically writing the dates of the withdrawals to see if there was some sort of pattern but like she thought there was nothing which would indicate some sort of normality and at this point, she knew something fishy was going on but she was soon pulled out of her thoughts by Hayley waking from her nap.

"Hey, darling" Carla whispers lifting her up onto her hip as she yawns contently "Let's get you changed and dressed then you can play with your toys for a bit," Carla says cheerily as she changes Hayley putting her back in her day clothes as Simon's bedroom door slams shut "And it looks like your brother's had a bad day at school" Carla grins going to knock on Simons door and opening it gingerly "Are you ok?"

"Fine" Simon replies abruptly "I need to get on and do this homework"

"I also need to sign your book as well to say that we've seen your homework" Carla states with her eyebrows raises as Simon rolls his eyes "What do you want for dinner?"

"Stir fry?" Simon questions eagerly as Carla nods.

"Ok then, I'll leave you to it, let me know if you need anything even if it is just a chat" Carla smiles as Simon rolls his eyes wanting to be left alone as Carla's phone rings seeing Leanne's name pop up on the screen so she heads downstairs so she could be out of earshot from Simon "Hey Leanne…yes he is why?...no he's not here he's at the bookies though if you want to speak to him…he's not, is it Tuesday?...ah then he's at a meeting…I'll ask him to call you when he gets home…alright, bye"

"Carla" Simon appears nervously as Carla smiles in response taking a seat on the rocking chair in the living room with Hayley in her arms "What did my mum have to say?"

"Ah I knew you'd be earwigging" Carla chuckles stroking her hand over Hayley's head "She just wanted to speak to your dad, I don't know what about mind you and it's not like she'd tell me either unless you'd like to enlighten me?"

"No not really" Simon replies dismissively "How was your day?"

"Boring really to be honest with you" Carla chuckles as Hayley gets off her lap and crawls over to her toys in the corner of the room gripping onto the box and standing "She better not walk…"

"Hayley come here" Simon claps his hands as Hayley looks up at him perplexed before smiling and reaching her arms out and falling onto her front, "I think she might be ready to do it y'know"

"Really?" Carla questions as Simon nods watching Carla kneel on the floor holding Hayley so she was standing as Simon kneels a short distance away "Let's try"

"Ok…Hayley, what's this?" Simon grins waving a toy in the air to catch her attention as Hayley smiles widely at him, Carla letting go of her arms until she was standing "Here come and get it Hayles" Simon beams as Hayley takes a couple of steps before Simon catches her so she didn't fall "Yay!"

"She did it!" Carla exclaims excitedly as Peter enters the room "She just walked Peter!"

"Really?" Peter questions as Hayley crawls over to him and stands up by clinging onto his leg "Go on, walk to mummy sweetheart"

"Hayley, come here" Carla smiles waving her toy as she smiles taking another couple of steps and falling into Carla's awaiting arms "You see!"

"Oh you are so smart princess" Peter smiles lifting Hayley up as she squeals.

"I'm going to go up and finish the rest of my homework" Simon smiles before excusing himself from the room.

"I need a word with you" Carla smiles closing the living room door as Peter narrows his eyes taking a seat with her on the sofa "Simon came in from school in a bit of a mood, Leanne then rang me as she couldn't get through to you so I just thought you should give her ring before dinner"

"Oh right" Peter rolls his eyes "Talk about scaring me to death, I thought I did something wrong"

"Sorry…" Carla trails off biting her lip "Why don't you give her a ring then I'll feed Hayley whilst you do so then put her to bed"

"Yeah ok, then we can talk later yeah?" Peter questions as Carla nods in response pecking him gently on the lips as Peter kisses her again "Even though I'd much rather kiss you"

"Hmm me too but the kids are around. Ring Leanne" Carla chuckles getting up with Hayley in her arms and heading into the kitchen ready to feed her…

Carla fed Hayley then put her to bed and Peter spoke to Simon about what was going on. It was getting to around 10 o'clock that evening and all the kids were in bed ready for the next day. Carla and Peter were in the hot tub chilling together knowing that they didn't get time alone with each other very often and this both led them to talk about the day's events and whatever bothered them, they also used this time to reconnect in more intimate ways as well.

"So then, what's going on with Simon" Carla whispers as she hugs Peter close to her body as they watch Hayley sleep through the baby monitor.

"It's his first week at school isn't it since the holidays and he's been playing up from what I gathered, I'm guessing he was just nervous about going back after the long break, he'll be fine though" Peter replies kissing Carla on the top of the head as she hums contently before sitting on Peter's lap.

"I'm sure he'll be fine," Carla says gently as Peter nods in agreement.

"How was your day? You seemed a bit stressed earlier" Peter mentions as Carla sighs knowing that there was definitely something going on with Johnny or Aidan or both of them she just didn't know what.

"I just noticed some dodgy cash withdrawals on the Underworld current account, really random figures as well ranging from five grand all the way to ten at one point then loads of little five hundred ones which was just really odd"

"Have you spoke to Johnny and Aidan about it?"

"No…I don't really know what to do, well I tried to ask some questions but they all just blagged it off as if it meant nothing well to be fair I wasn't exactly clear on what I meant but…I don't know what to do" Carla frets as Peter runs a hand through her hair "What would you do if you were in my shoes?"

"Speak to them, look, you're majority shareholder so I think you have a right to tell them what you've found as it will affect all shareholders if someone has found a way into the current account that isn't one of you three? It could affect the business in the future…"

"Hmm I guess you're right" Carla muses as Peter nods slowly "How's business for you?"

"Good actually, really good…people are actually enjoying coming out to a bookie and socialising my guess is that as this market has moved mainly online it actually adds a unique way of betting" Peter shrugs as Carla nods kissing him on the lips as she stands up to get out of the hot tub "Where are you off to then?"

"Bed…it's late and I have work tomorrow" Carla chuckles as Peter turns off the jets and gets out of the tub as well and putting the cover over it "Plus I need to have a quick shower"

"Can I join?" Peter questions eagerly as Carla smirks in response

"If you let me have some of my shower gel, I know you like to steal it" Carla sniggers before running into the house and up the stairs into the bedroom to jump in the shower, Peter following with puppy dog eyes excited to be getting the attention from his wife…

It was the next day and Carla decided she would hold a business meeting to discuss the state of the accounts. Johnny, in particular, looked rather nervous but so did Aidan knowing exactly how Carla could be like when she had a cob on. Carla was sitting on her desk with both Johnny and Aidan standing anxiously in front of her wanting to explain her foul mood in detail in case they could help in any way but it was obvious that Carla liked to spread it out for a long period of time for maximum effect.

"Why are we here Carla?" Aidan groans as Carla smiles sweetly picking up her laptop and finding the books.

"Right…why are you here…well I was going through the accounts yesterday afternoon and I found this-" Carla states swivelling her laptop around for them both to see "-so if anyone wants to explain to me what these cash withdrawals are?"

"I actually don't know…" Aidan trails off having a look at the figures and frowning "All I know is it's not me"

"Johnny care to explain?" Carla questions as Johnny glances to Aidan rather bewildered "No?"

"Are you sure they're just not bills?"

"No…we mark our bills in a certain way and there is no way a bill would be almost ten grand" Carla informs them as Aidan nods in agreement to her statement "So which one of it is you? There's only us three which have access to the account so which one is it because I can assure you it's not me"

"Well, it's not me," Aidan and Johnny say in sync causing Carla to nod sarcastically knowing they would both be stubborn to reveal who it was.

"Well it has to be one of you," Carla says exasperatedly "Ok, this is what I'm going to do. You don't have to tell me which one of you it is but when I check the books next month and I see odd transactions without a description I will report you both and investigate where the money is going to via the bank, do I make myself clear?"

"Yes," Johnny and Aidan reply in sync again.

"Good I'm glad we got that sorted, now can we get on and do some work?" Carla questions taking a seat in her chair as Johnny and Aidan sit in theirs

"Yes," they both reply in sync leaving Carla to forever question the case of the missing money…