Offer to the CEO

Friday

In the aftermath of Anna and Alecia's dinner meeting on Monday, the dancers within the dance school were offered the opportunity to film a cameo scene in a film, performing one of their dances. This was a complete and utter surprise for everyone, the teachers and tour guides and the talk of everyone while eating breakfast was how exciting this was, and that they could not wait to receive a copy of the film with them in it.

Anna heard a series of gasps and wondered what was going on behind her. She turned and saw her husband walking into the restaurant. Damn it, that man was a sneak. When they had spoken yesterday morning, he told her that he would be finished his trip to allow him to come and meet her Saturday morning.

Before she could stand and head towards her husband, who she had missed so much since he left on his business trip, Pippa and Hannah who had been sitting with friends had spotted Hou Yi and immediately ran to him yelling "Uncle Yi." The bodyguards near him realising who the girls were and as Hou Yi crouched down for the girls they stepped aside to allow them to run into his open arms for a hug.

Once the girls were ready to return to their friends Hou Yi let them go and moved over to Anna and bent down giving her a brief kiss before taking a seat beside her.

Anna turned in her seat and looked Hou Yi and quietly said "You, you …"

"You love me?"

"Yi, you told me you would be here tomorrow. You sneak, that is twice in a week."

"Well I pushed and got through the meetings last night and decided that I could not bare to be away from you for another day." With that Hou Yi gave her another gentle kiss. As he pulled away, he knew that Anna would not be angry with him for too long.

However, before he could say anything, Alecia tapped him on the shoulder, and said "Uncle Yi, you know I am …"

"Annoyed with me?" Hou Yi immediately responded. He had noticed that she was sitting with five other girls that looked about her age. "It appears that you have made some friends."

"Good change of conversation, Uncle Yi. Despite having only met them a few weeks ago, they treat me as one of them. That is so much better than most of the girls at school who, when James picked me up the first time from school, tried to hit on me."

Anna and Hou Yi looked at each other and realised that Alecia had in a few weeks started to pick up slang and could not help laughing a little.

Alecia after realising what they were laughing at, continued "When I told them to go away a couple of them smugly said 'we are pretty, and he will take us over you.' I just happened to be placing my rings back on my finger as the school would not allow me to wear them during the day, so I took my hand and waved it in their faces."

"James spotted what I did along with their reaction but told me afterwards that he had hears what they said so he came over and gave me a kiss in front of them. As you can imagine that was not liked by those who tried to hit on him, and they started to cause trouble at school for me. Even one of their parents went to the police about James who quickly set them straight."

"The worst thing is, and in some respect, it does not bother me is it has split the year. Those girls and their friends on one side and everyone else on the other. As a few that are not with those girls told me, it had been coming as they always thought they were superior and were entitled to everything that they wanted. I figured that I could not let it bother me, but realise that I will have few friends from there, but the girls here with the dance school will be true friends, because they accept me as I am, and have no issue with James and I."

Looking directly at Hou Yi, Alecia finished talking saying "Now, you master manipulator, you have something planned?"

"True, Alecia. Are you OK to look after Hannah and Pippa tonight with the help of a couple of bodyguards when you go for your end of tour dinner? I want to take Anna out for dinner tonight."

"For her, yes. She has not been well this whole trip, vomiting on and off."