Offer to the CEO

Monday, continued …

As Hou Yi turned to Leave, Anna called out "Yi, can we talk?"

As he turned with a smile on his face Hou YI responded, "What Sweetheart?"

"Come into my office." With that the two of them entered Anna's office and sat down on the couch.

"Yi, I had this thought about the press conference regarding Du XuXu this afternoon. My only connection to the whole situation is that I am married to you. I do not have the emotional investment like everyone else, and therefore I can be dispassionate about the situation. It is going to be all about the evidence presented and public speaking, which are my forte. All we would have to do is work out a pre-prepared speech."

"Anna, I could not ask you to do that," came Hou YI's quiet response.

"Yi you are not, I am offering. You know that I am not as fragile as I was. When we married," and with that Anna lent over and gave him a brief kiss, and then paused, simply watching his expression.

Anna, after a few seconds continued "When we married, I was a shattered person with everything Lu JInhu had done to me. With your support, and more importantly your love, which I did not realise was there until this morning in five short weeks, I have been able to break completely from that toxic relationship, confront and recognise what happened to me."

"Phillipa and I had numerous discussions about how I was dealing with my feelings and the whole situation. As she explained it to me, unlike most victims my psychological make-up, education and work background has allowed me since admitting what happened to process and deal with much of the hurt very quickly. While I will never escape it completely, I am able to lead a normal life, and deal with challenges that are thrown at me."

"Most importantly, and you need to understand this. Yi, you are the reason that I am at a point that I can cope. You let me deal with it rather than trying to force me down a path. Now I want to do something for you. This I can do. I can lay out the events and facts for the media, explain the science and other material. I often had to do this for clients, so I can do this for you."

"Are you sure?"

"Absolutely sure. Now do not argue with your pregnant wife. Now you need to get to your office, but before you go, I want a kiss, and promise me you will send me all the electronic files with all the information, including your travel history."

Hou Yi, could not believe in such a short space of time, how firm and certain his wife had become, and more importantly how little she gave a care about what people saw. He moved closer to her on the couch, and lent over Anna, starting to kiss her.

Hou Yi wanted to give her a tender kiss, but that was not what his wife wanted. Using her tongue she deepened the kiss very quickly, which made it almost impossible for him to break away from. After a few minutes he eventually and reluctantly pulled away, noticing in just a few minutes, that his wife had loosened his tie, and pulled his shirt from hit pants.


"Anna, this is dangerous. We could …" Hou Yi moved away from Anna, he heard a groan that clearly indicated how frustrated she was, and as he spoke, he noticed that she was disappointed in what happened.

"We could …"

"Anna, I love you, but as you reminded me I need to go. I promise that I will email you the documents and see you at lunch time."

Before anything else could happen Hou Yi pulled himself back together, and reluctantly left his wife's office. He noticed that he was being watched as he left Anna's office and moved to the elevator to go to his office.

Anna simply stayed sitting in her office, distracted. All she could think about was spending time with her husband, and how soon it was until they could be alone. She needed that time, simply to bask in their feelings.

That made her think about this morning and their confessions to each other, and she remained distracted until she heard a knock on the door and looked up. When she shook out of her thoughts, she noticed Amanda standing at the door with a huge smile on her face.

"I thought Tan and I were shocking, but you two take the cake."