Sinbad had plans for Solomon and his expansion, none of which were good. He wasn't just going to let Alma Torran overtake Sindria because they had two very popular singers and a very successful company background.

Solomon wasn't going to succeed without a fight from Sinbad. For now it seemed that Al Thamen was focusing more on increasing hype on the redhead's movie it was going to come out soon. He was standing alone against Alma Torran, but he was ready to fight. As Kouen had said last night, this is war. Solomon was threatening him and the family he had built at Sindria. He wasn't going to take that sitting down.

Sinbad pulled some strings. He was getting too much heat from the media attacks and the expansion. He wasn't in a position right now to go against Solomon as he was. He had to call in some favors. It was a good thing he had friends in high places. All three of the contacts he had called in earlier for support were now set to attack Solomon and his company. Quite a bit of bad press was spread.

Sinbad's attack had Solomon and Ugo scrambling. Sinbad had really good connections. Solomon hadn't anticipated this much backlash yet. He and Ugo had both been preparing to upstage the huge concert Sindria had been advertising, not a full-scale attack on Alma Torran from big names in the industry. Not to this extent, at least. Solomon and Ugo had been very well prepared, and Sheba had triple checked and reinforced everything. Sinbad was just good, frighteningly so. Solomon really was in trouble at this point.

It was late at night. The concert was coming up really soon and things were going poorly. He and Ugo were both frantically trying to deal with Sinbad's attacks and finish preparations. Normally Solomon would only be overseeing these things, but until he found more people who he really trusted to get things done he was taking care of it. So much depended on this concert. He needed it to go well to secure the contracts with the Ren siblings and all the connections that came with them. But to do that, he needed to somehow negate what Sinbad had done to them as well as Aladdin.

He brought Paimon over from her usual department to help out here. Ugo was working way too much and he wasn't doing much better. He had Amon working on all legal aspects. It just wasn't enough right now. He was tempted to have Sheba help more, but he didn't want her to overdo it. Sinbad had played his cards perfectly.

"Solomon, let me help. You are working too hard."

"Sheba, I don't want you to get sick again. You need to take things easy. Ugo and I can-"

"She is my daughter too, Solomon. You aren't the only one who wants to make him pay. Tell me what you need help with and I will do it. I promise I won't do too much, but you need help and I can do more." She pulled his hand to her lips. "You keep staying up all night. You only sleep for an hour or so every day. Let me help more. What do you need me to do? I said I wanted to be a family again and I meant it. That means we work together. Don't do everything on your own."

His arms wrapped around her. "I know Sheba, I'm just worried about you."

"I will be fine. I know my limits. I can do this. Let me help you help our daughter and her little lover."

"Don't remind me. I act like it's okay but I really am worried about that."

"Oh, she is fine. Have you ever seen them together? It's adorable."

"Yeah, they never stop touching."

"She said he likes physical contact. That was actually my advice. Oh, I have pictures. Look." She showed him the pictures she had taken of the two of them in bed the first morning, at lunch, in the car, cooking together, singing together, and coming home from the recording studio after Judal recorded his first album with Alma Torran.

"SHEBA!"

"It's fine, he isn't going to hurt her."

"How do you know that? We don't know him well enough to be sure. I don't want to say anything when she is finally letting me in again, but it worries me how close they are."

"I talked to him the other day. You should have heard him talking about how he taught Aladdin some self-defense. It was really cute; you had to be there. He taught her self-defense so something like what Sinbad did won't happen again."

"Yeah, maybe with someone who doesn't know what he knows, but if he taught her then he must know more then she does. He can still do something."

"Didn't sound like he taught her just to protect her from other men, it sounded like he was teaching her to protect herself from any man, himself included. I thought it was really sweet. I trust him."

"Not you too."

"What do you mean?"

"Ugo already trusts him. And her friends trust him too, to some extent."

"Really?"

"Kouha and Alibaba say he can be a pain in the ass but they seem to trust him with Aladdin, Kouha more so then Alibaba but still."

"Don't worry about it Solomon. Aladdin is a great judge of character."

"I know. I trust her. I just don't like the whole boyfriend thing."

"You are such an overprotective father. It's adorable."

"I love you, you know."

"I love you too. Now let me help. He declared war on us, let's return the favor somehow. At least let me help organize the concert."

"And we were having such a nice little moment."

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