Offer To The CEO

Tuesday, continued …

Anna listened to everything Hou Yi has to say about his family and past relationships. It surprised her that he only had three serious relationships and how in two the women involved set out to use him. Steve and Mary Kent however sound a wonderful pair of friends, and she cannot wait to meet them.

Anna took a deep breath. "Well my history is a lot different than yours. As to how my parents met, their marriage is a second marriage for each of them. I have two half-brothers from my father's first marriage, Ben and Adam, neither of who have married, but have partners. I have a half-sister from my mother's first marriage Susan, who married Wayne Adamson."

"There is only 18 months between Adam, Ben and Susan and Ben and Adam's maternal grandparents always treated Susan as a granddaughter. Susan and Wayne three children, two girls and a boy Graeme. Graeme is disabled, and they have assistance to care for him, but he is only expected to live another couple of years before he dies from what he has. I can never remember what it exactly is. Susan is an Emergency Department Senior nurse and Wayne a truck driver."

Ben and Adam, both work on farms. Ben and Adam's partners call themselves wives. Rosemary is Ben's wife and she is a highly qualified and experienced nurse, but with three young children she works part-time as a practice nurse. She intends to go back to full time nursing when their youngest starts primary school next year. Rebecca is Adam's partner, and they have three school age children, twin boys and a girl. Rebecca is a school teacher. They all live within an hour's drive of Mum and Dad in Warrnambool."

"I also have a younger brother James. James took two years off study to work, however he has gone to the local university to study nursing and is in the final year of his degree. My understanding is all that he has left to do is his placements. He lives at home with Mum and Dad. Dad works for the council, and mum due to an injury retired last year from being an aged care worker. I am the only child that has, as they say, flown the coop."

"At school, I was bright enough that I skipped one year completely, and finished year 12 when I was only 16. Both my primary and secondary education were at a local private school that covered both primary and secondary schooling. My marks were such that I received offers for fully paid scholarships to Universities in Melbourne, Sydney, Perth, Canberra, and Hobart."

"I opted, so I could get away from home to study in Hobart, where I completed a combined Bachelor of Commerce/Bachelor of was degree. It was in my second year when I first met Lu Jinhu. He was older than me but was in his first year of a commerce degree and was staying at the same residential college that I was"

"Due to my marks, the university after my first year let me take study overloads that allowed me to complete my undergraduate degree by age 20, but still graduate with first class honours in law, and then the professional qualification, which was still covered under my scholarship."

"Lu Jinhu, finished his study a couple of months after I completed my professional qualification, by which time I had relocated to Melbourne and commenced work at ANX Lawyers, where I have been since. I have been informed that the partners are considering asking me to buy into the partnership in the next couple of years."

"As to Lu Jinhu and my relationship we started out as friends, but within months, we commenced dating. At university, he kept pressuring me for a sexual relationship however I refused. Firstly I was on 17 when we met, and I was him constantly flirting with other women. I was also concerned that he was using me. I told him, I needed a commitment to our relationship before I would become sexually involved with him. It was only after he completed his undergraduate degree and moved to Melbourne did our relationship change. I saw the move at the time as romantic and a commitment to our relationship.

"Given what he said today, I was simply gullible and easily manipulated. It was never a commitment to a relationship, it was about what was in it for him. However, it was only when he moved in that our relationship became sexual. He has been my only sexual partner, but I often was not into the sexual side of our relationship as he was."

"The one thing I insisted on when we commenced the sexual side of our relationship was that he had to be screened for sexually transmitted diseases for me to trust him, and have annual screens throughout our relationship. He agreed to that and all his screens have come back negative for sexually transmitted diseases."

"Eight weeks ago, when I had my annual physical as required by work, the screening then showed that I had no sexually transmitted diseases. In Melbourne he undertook further study at Monash University, and despite his parents' financial assistance never seemed to have money. I was the one responsible for managing and maintaining our house."

"I had at the time he proposed ten months ago thinking about ending our relationship, as I had no idea where it was going. When I accepted his proposal, I committed myself to the relationship. As I now know, it was a ploy to ensure he obtained his Australian Citizenship. As to my friends I have few long standing friends, as they and Lu Jinhu did not get along, but that will now change."

"Do you think you need to know anything more?"

"Actually, I think we have the information we each need" came Hou Yi's reply. "While I think neither of us really want to go out, we need to go to my family's ancestral home to see my parents and grandparents."

"Yi please do not get angry there are things about how he treated me in our relationship that I really do not want to talk about now. I will when I am ready, so I hope that you can respect that.

"That is OK. You will tell me when you are ready to do so. Do not worry."

With that Hou Yi stood up, and took Anna's hand, and walked back towards the entrance, opening the thee doors. "The door on this side, is that for the walk-in-robe, which we will share. He walked to the door closest to the bedroom/living space within the suite, and indicate, this room is designed as a walk in safe, not only to keep your jewellery in, but for us to secure things in."

"The thumbprint scanned, on which tomorrow your thumbprint will be encoded automatically unlocks when either of us scan our thumbprint and enter the room. The final door is the ensuite bathroom. You go and use it first. I understand that your dress is in the walk-in robe, but you will find two robes on the back of the door. While you are in the ensuite I will gather my clothes, and when you are done, take them in with me, so you can go into the robe, and get ready."