Offer To The CEO

Sunday, continued …

Hou Yi, seeing his wife sitting down, headed over to the food and gathered a plate of food and some soft drink for her, and wandered back to where she was sitting. He sat down, beside her, and picking up a small sandwich he had put on the plate started to move it up for Anna to eat.

As Anna was watching Hou Yi bring the sandwich up to her mouth she saw Ben, with what appeared to be an ice cube in hand moving behind her husband. Her though was how immature could he be, with the ice cube down the back of the shirt thing, but as she realised that was her brother. As the sandwich reached her mouth and she started to bite down, she saw Ben drop the ice cube inside Hou Yi's shirt as well as feeling a freezing piece of ice slip down her back.

As Anna turned around, she saw Adam running off, with both him and Ben laughing. Damn those two immature brothers. Anna decided to say quickly, and loudly "Adam and Ben Jones, you two immature brothers. I thought you were responsible, and yet you resort to petty tricks like that."

On observing his wife and her brother's Hou Yi realised that there was something more to this, then the two of them being immature. Ben quickly turned and walked back towards Anna saying "What goes around comes around sister. What did you expect, we would let you get away doing that to us at our weddings and not respond at your wedding?"

"Damn it, Ben, at your wedding I was what, thirteen or fourteen years old and eleven or twelve years old at Adam's wedding? You two take the cake, plus the two of you were married in summer. You decide to target me during my spring wedding while I am pregnant. Do you not think about a pregnant woman? I do not know why I put up with you let alone your wives put up with you," responded an exasperated Anna.

Before Anna could say anything else, Adam, Ben, James, Wayne, Susan, Rosemary and Rebecca together said, "You put up with us because you love us," before bursting out in laughter. Hou Yi, joined in the laughing as he knew his in-laws had nailed his wife down. She loved her siblings and he knew there was times, despite all the telephone and video calls she missed being near them at times.

Anna stared at them all before shaking her head and commenting "I do not know why," and joined in the laughing. Anna in that moment realised how good it was to be spending time with her family, as despite her new life with the love of her life her siblings and their spouses were important to her and she missed spending time with them.

Over to one side, Du AnLing and Hou Jang sat watching the interaction between their daughter-in-law and her family. It was obvious to anyone that the siblings cared for each other and had seemed to take Hou Yi as another member of the family so easily. While they knew they were blessed to have their son, in that moment they realised that their decisions did have an impact on him.

Turning to his wife Hou Jang said "My wife, you know our son is so lucky to have found Anna and her family ..."

"He was, my husband. I could read in your eyes that you were thinking the same thing as me, that our choices impacted him, but ..."

"I know, as long as he is happy that is all that matters. I have to admit seeing his reaction when that ice was put down his back, I just hope a few photographs were taken, as it was priceless."

"I know." Du AnLing looked up and saw that not only did her son's in-laws have more ice in their hands, their son did too. "This could get messy. I think I better go protect my daughter-in-law, otherwise she will be the real victim of all that ice."

"Do that, I am going to get that son of mine as well. The brat the other day lectured me on behaving this weekend, now look at him. Revenge, is a dish that can be served cold."