Offer to the CEO

Sunday

Hou Yi turned to Anna, and quietly said "Anna, I have a trip to make tomorrow to County Y. It is only for twenty-four hours, and when we had the appointment with your obstetrician last week, he indicated that it would be OK if you wanted to come, as the flight will only be about an hour."

Anna paused and realised that even in the twelve days since Christmas things had changed. Her appointment last week with the obstetrician saw her work hours reduced to two days, with an hour reduction of her charitable work hours to half a day a week. She was also informed that she could only work for three more weeks in total before having to go onto maternity leave.

The comment that she made to Hou Yi as they left was this would drive her insane, but as Hou Yi told her it was only for a few months, and when she was ready she could go back to work, but more importantly she could work with the designer and make the final decisions for the finishes for their Villa. As Anna realised it was something and while Hou Yi as using it as a way make her not feel as frustrated, getting everything right for their home would be perfect. Yes, the apartment was home, but in the end, it was Hou Yi's home first, not their home until she was able to re-decorate it. The Villa would be their home from the start.

Anna turned and said "Sounds like a good idea. I am guessing there will be some opportunities for shopping?"

"Have you been talking to my mother and aunt?"

"Well I need some new clothes, and I want to pick a few things up for the baby."

"There will be. Chester Yao's sister Lexi is a designed and she has returned to continue her business there. I will give him a call and see if she could help you out."

"Absolutely, given that I am only in the office on Tuesday and Wednesday's at the moment, it sounds like a good idea."

"OK sweetheart," said Hou Yi giving Anna a brief kiss before continuing "Let me make a couple of calls. I was going to leave early in the morning, but how about we head off this afternoon, and you can relax when we arrive, and we will return tomorrow night."

Anna nodded, and headed out of the room, asking Butler Ge to pack clothes for the two of them for a couple of days away.

Three hours later, as they sat down in the plane and belted in for the flight, Anna, leaned her head onto Hou Yi's shoulder and drifted off to sleep before they even took off Anna was asleep. Hou Yi wondered if in fact this was a wise decision, however the obstetrician indicated that it was OK.

He had quietly told Hou Yi Anna would need a few distractions as she was so use to working full time, and being restricted without these would stress her out.  That was something he reminded Hou Yi needed to be avoided as much as possible, particularly as the obstetrician informed me, if her stress levels did not reduce she would likely head into labour early.

After that discussion he had to call Rosemary and tell her what the obstetrician was saying. Rosemary due to Anna's pre-arranged birthing plan had been speaking regularly to the obstetrician and there she said that they had already made plans as to when she would come across.

As the pilot was getting ready to descend into City K, Anna suddenly woke up, and it was obvious to Hou Yi as she awoke that she was full of energy. Once they landed the immigration officials from Country Y boarded and their immigration procedures were quickly finalised. Hou Yi, to Anna's surprise handed over both her new passport from Country X and her Australian Passport. She had completely forgotten that since her return from Phillipa's grandfather's funeral she had her new passport issued.

Quickly they were whisked to their hotel in the centre of City K, accompanied by the bodyguards that they had brought. On being shown into their suite at the hotel, Hou Yi turned to Anna and said "I hate to land this on you, but given we are going to head back tomorrow after I finish all the meetings and you are done with shopping, Chester suggested that we have dinner tonight. We have been invited to the Yao Family Villa, as apparently the family are safety concerned as Lexi was kidnapped just over a week ago. She was quickly recovered, but they are not going out of a night-time for safety reasons. Chester said dinner was casual and stressed no dressing up."

Anna nodded, and quickly went into her case and found a change of clothes before heading into the bathroom, leaving Hou Yi standing there. He decided to confirm the dinner arrangements with Chester.