Offer To The CEO

Sunday, continued …

"CEO Hou the other decision is colour for the suits, and the material. Convention would be black or navy, but we have options for the material."

"On that whatever my wife decides, will be OK on that mark. However …"

"I understand from my daughter that the ceremony will be in Australia. I can, despite not having it in stock, obtain Australian Merino Wool fopr the suits, in the colour that your wife decides."

"You can get that?" came a surprised response.

"CEO Hou and Yao, while I do not keep expensive materials in the shop, through me suppliers I can obtain any material I require, in the amount I require. I will speak to Madam Hou as to the exact colour for the suits and order additional bolts to make the additional suits I know I will need to make. Let me get you measured for the suits and shirts, and as to those minor details I will talk to Madam Hou."

He ushered both into a room, and said "Gentleman, for accurate measurements I need you to strip to your underwear. Oh by the way CEO Hou, your brother-in-law asked if it was possible to get three or four additional suits made. I told him that It would take me about a week to do them, but I needed to check with you. He has already selected the designs and material that he likes, but I figured that you were going to pay the account so I needed your OK."

"Go ahead and do that, add some shirts for him as well."

"Not a problem. Now who is going first, gentleman?"

"Well, I guess as he is the groom, it should be."

"Just wait for it to come your turn. By the way are you ever going to propose to Amanda?" with that Hou Yi started to strip down to his boxer shorts, and the tailor commenced making his measurements.

"When mine and her parents have been trying to arrange it since we were children, why would I give them the satisfaction?"

"Who cares about your parents. You are the only fooling yourself. You love her and if your parents and her parents had not been pushing the match since she was born you would have married her years ago. She would have helped you raise the triplets and she would not be working for me, waiting for you to make up your mind."

"Tan you will regret it for the rest of your life if you let the love of your life get away from you. Amanda will get sick of waiting and move on to find someone else. That will be what you cannot cope with. I was just lucky that I was able to get the love of my life to marry me."

"Yi, you sound like Amanda."

"Before we continue, you need to get undressed as I think the tailor is about finished taking my measurements."

"Go jump Yi." Yao Tan commenced undressing to his boxers while the tailor finished taking the last measurements from Hou Yi, and making notations as to these measurements. He signaled to Hou Yi that he had finished so he started to get redressed.

"Be serious, answer me these two question, do you love her and could you live without her in your life?"

"Yes and no."

"There is your answer, you love her and want her in your life. The only way that that is guaranteed if if you marry her. Get your marriage certificate and everything else will fall into place."

"But what about her career, she has worked hard to get there, and I understand that she has been appointed as a supervisor. Marrying me would mean that she has to give that up."

"Who is to say that that is the case?"

"Well she cannot stay working at Hou Enterprises."

"Why not?"

"When she is married to the CEO of a competitor."

"Not when she is married to my friend. All I would do is make sure that she works on nothing that involves you, which protects everyone. Alternatively she could go and work for you."

"There is no way either my parents or her parents would allow that."

"So she stays at Hou Enterprises. If necessary in the future she and Anna could job share. Anna could train to become a lawyer here and Amanda to become qualified in Australia. I know from the discussions with Anna's employers they are looking to expand eventually here, and the two of them could be the heads of the office here, leaving Hou Enterprises behind. It would be up to them what they do."