The office door opened someone answered from outside "Sir, your guest is here", following her voice a woman entered.
She walked with a certain measured gait, eyes straight ahead staring at me, chin slightly up, her temperament belonged to people holding a position of power- strong vitality and strong personality that radiated around making everyone around cautious. Her dark brown eyes were inviting me to the depths of the abyss. She looked like an untouched rare flower with thorns and pride with slight contempt for the world around her. She is my wife Shui Bai Chang.
"You are a she!" Cyrus exclaimed.
I realise I was staring at her, my face felt hot, I was breathless; my heart was pounding in my ears. I took a deep breath, dismissed the secretary, "Welcome Ms Shui Bai Chang". I showed her a seat to take. She walked as lightly as a butterfly. I composed myself. I sat down opposite her as the seat beside her was occupied by Cyrus. As soon as we were seated Cyrus couldn't help himself anymore he urgently asked: "Was it you last week?"
She didn't reply immediately she looked around the office, her eyes followed a pattern, to look through obscure corners to look for surveillance or hidden recording tools. I was surprised I immediately understood something, "Cyrus leave us alone immediately," I said sharply.
Cyrus, he looked at me to protest but saw that I was not joking; he left the office heavy-hearted and dejected. I turned to Bai Chang, she was staring straight at me, "Ms Shui there is no hidden cameras or recorders in this office, and you may rest assured." I spoke.
She smiled, 'it was a fresh feeling for me as Bai Chang rarely smiled before but this is her work smile, not her real smile. I once again thought how much has she changed, would she remember me at all, if ever?'
"Mr Hu let's get straight to business, after all, we all are busy people." She voiced. (It has the quality of chime bells to my ears, very pleasant to hear.)
"Please Ms Shui, speak freely I am listening," I replied.
(In my heart I was saying, I will listen to you all my life, 'my wife'.)
"Mr Hu, you gave a very generous amount for my health care during my prolonged stay in hospital. I do not like to owe people, so today I am here to return the due credit with interest. I will provide you with an upgrade 'Cyber Security System' an unparalleled in current technology and coming technology for the coming few years, making you a giant to follow in the cybersecurity industry. This program will make you locally over 100 million and globally with the right buyers, over 100 billion turnovers by the end of the year. So my conditions are I give you this program in turn after deducting due credits you company pays me 1 billion. Of course, that is after you understood the program and able to run it as I do not want others to know the origin of the program. I will teach you the code; you put it under your name. What do you think of my proposal?" she asked.
During this whole time there were stuffed emotions in my heart I calmly replied without showing any disquiet, "I would have to see the program to validate your claimed value. As for repaying the debt, please, you shame me, we were good friends before your accident. I wouldn't watch my friend suffer while I looked the other side," I said.
(I think this is the best way to close the distance between us.)
"Mr Hu, there is a serious problem, while I just walked into your office building, I found two suspicious individuals calling International numbers, from the long numbers and the initial codes they dialled, it was routed to European continents so I have my doubts that we were friends or foes," she replied.
I kept my silence this time. I contemplated, while she was still staring at me straight trying to discern my thoughts. Every time I looked into her eyes my heart skipped a beat.
"Ms Shui, this may sound inappropriate but my home is in your residential community. If you do not mind we can meet at your place or mine to discuss." I say it with a straight face.
(I want to close the gap between us as soon as possible.)
"That would be possible to apply."
"Okay, then that settles it then," I responded.
"For the agenda of the meeting, tell that I came to thank you in person to your goodwill, as for that man who left your office, best to find ways to shut him up." She retorted with a slight chill in her eyes.
I looked towards the person sitting in front of me, my wife, her demeanour may have evolved more than what was before but there were little traces here and there still left. I found myself falling in love with my wife all over again.
After the conversation, I accompanied her to her car as she left the office.
My brows tightened, I call Cyrus back into my office. As soon as he entered he wanted to barrage me but I interrupted "Cyrus, we have a situation. We have mole among us."
He kept looking at me. "While she was hacking she found leaks to a few foreign forces in our company private servers."
'While she left she handed me a small SD card holding details of these leaks as a show of goodwill and trust. (I don't know I should laugh or cry, as this company is her property as am I.)'
"Look through this, watch closely but do not act yet, let's roll in some big fishes this time. Let them know whom they have messed with," the poor kid... I didn't let him speak yet "and Cyrus while you are at it, keep your mouth shut about our little friend here no words should slip past under any conditions." I made sure my points reached across to him.
"Boss" finally this kid asked cautiously, "Who is she?"
I reply without hesitation "My legal married wife."
His eyes popped, mouth wide open, as he looked at me in surprise.
I cautiously replied, "She met an accident, she is amnesic, so she is not aware of our relationship."
At this time his mouth was so wide open that two duck eggs could fit there. He took some time to digest the news and then left the office to prepare to spread a large net to reel in some big fishes.
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Somewhere in East Pacific ocean on a Military vassal deck, a uniformed man holding a file rushed to the captain's cabin.