Offer To The CEO

Monday, continued ...

On finishing reading the email Anna realised the time, and turned to Hou Yi, stating "Yi, I just need to turn those points emailed into the agreement, but I realised that it is 12:30pm. What do you want to do for lunch?"

"Anna, I will send one of the guards to get something for us and stay with you here." Hou Yi then went to the door, and opened it, speaking to one of the bodyguards, who Anna saw walking off.

Anna paid little attention and kept working on her laptop as she wanted to get this agreement done, quickly. An email alert popped up saying 'ALL staff, no exceptions to attend a Staff meeting 1:45pm today. In compensation you can finish 15 minutes earlier on Friday.' Anna knew that this was a meeting to advise every one of her marriage and relocation to Country X, let alone everything else that was occurring.

Anna kept working through drafting the agreement. As she finished, there was a knock on the door, and when Hou Yi opened the door the bodyguard sent for lunch entered carrying sandwiches for them. Anna emailed a copy of the agreement to Mr Williams, and knew she had to enter the work area due to the lack of a close-by WiFi printer to print the document.

While Hou Yi was eating, she picked up her pass card and entered the work area heading towards the printer. Her assistant Jodie was at the printer with her back to Anna. Anna touched her on the shoulder "Hi Jodie"

Jodie jumped in shock, and then replied "Anna, why did you not tell me you were coming back?"

"I am not telling here. However, can you from the youngest HOUENT file print three copies of the most recent agreement there. As it is Monday, I guess that you have brought your lunch." With that Jodie was nodding your head. "Well bring your lunch and the documents to Interview Room three and I will tell you what is happening."

"Will do boss. See you in a couple of minutes."

Anna walked back out and returned to Interview Room three. She paused and told the bodyguards "In a couple of minutes, my assistant Jodie Hughes will be here. Do not stop her. She will use her own pass card to get in."

"Yes, Madam Hou."

Anna went in and sat next to Hou Yi. "Yi, my assistant is coming in with the agreement. I would like to see if she would be willing to resign from here, and relocate to become my personal assistant, both in work matters and everything else. I trust her, and I know I need someone around me I fully trust. Can we pay all her costs to relocate, and get her a house, and help her partner get a job?"

"Anna, absolutely, whatever you want. You and I will sponsor her working visa, and so that she is safe I will arrange for a secure apartment for her, if she will come. Triple her current wage, because you trust her, I will trust her. As to her partner, we will help him, but the only thing for him, is that they will have to be married, for us to sponsor his visa."

Before they could get into anything else or Anna commence eating her lunch, Jodie came in with the document, and not realising that Hou Yi was there, said "Anna what is with those heavies outside? They almost were not going to let me in, until I identified that I was your assistant. Here is that document, and that makes me ask another question, what is going on with your life."

"Jodie, this is Hou Yi. Can you witness both of us signing this document, and take it to Mr William's office. Once you come back, I will give you the explanation. I promise."

"Fine" was Jodie's snappy reply. Very quickly Anna, and Hou Yi signed the document, Hou Yi signing it personally and as the CEO of Hou Enterprises, and Jodie witnessed the signatures. She left and dealt with the document as Anna has asked. She returned a couple of minutes later, just as Anna was quickly finishing the salad roll the bodyguard had purchased for her.

"You need to spill Anna. I figured something was happening with those Family Law Orders last week, but I respected you, so I did not dig into the restricted file. So, tell me."

"Given your tendency to interrupt me, I figured telling you while you are eating is the easiest." Anna paused while Jodie opened her lunch.

"Le me say, Lu Jinhu was trying to be too smart for his own good, and he messed up. You know from the orders he was trying to get everything he could from me, but his mistake means that I have seen the orders and can stop him. But that is the tip of the iceberg."

"I know you never liked him given you viewed him as abusive and I refused to listen to his concerns. You were right, he was verbally abusive, psychologically manipulative to the point he pushed almost all my friends out of my life, and economically abusive. I really do not want to go into details about the extent of his abuse but let me say it was not pretty. He used me to get secure Australian Citizenship. And no, I have not married him. Hou Yi, is not just a representative of a client, he and I were married last Tuesday."

"What!" spat out a shocked Jodie. "You have to be kidding me, you escape Lu Jinhu, and you marry someone else. Are you stupid?"