Beijing, 10 pm.
"President,"
Chen, his personal assistant asked for approval. Zhu Li, the President-CEO and the new Chairman of the ZH Holdings, a company who holds the life and death of the people in the business world. Nod his head, his sharp gaze on his computer infront.
"Understood." Chen uttered before taking a bow, a sign to leave.
After his assistant leave, Zhu Li returns to watching his wife. His lips nestled into a small smile when his wife finally turned off the television and went to the side of the bed to turn the lamp off.
The light of the moon from their balcony outside met the bed making the person sleeping on it look ethereal. She was like a goddess laying to sleep. She was curved on her favorite sleeping position, she was not covered in her blanket.
Zhu Li's brow furrowed, it was snowing for goodness' sake, is her wife not cold? Or she has another reason for doing it?
Without a sound, Zhu Li grabbed his coat, turned off his computer and immediately went home after leaving the company.
Snowing it was on Beijing. The weather makes it a lot more colder when night hits but Angela remain stubborn, she didn't cover herself despite the strong cold air around the room.
She tried to sleep too but her freezing body would not cooperate. Just a little bit. She mumbled.
After minutes of manipulating her own mind to ignore the coldness and forcing her self to shut down to sleep did Angela felt sleepy, not long after, she fell in a light sleep.
Suddenly, Angela no longer felt cold, she was warm. Hnmm, is he finally here?
Angela move a little, her hand searching for something. But the bed was empty, she moaned and open her eyes. Angela finally spotted him at the corner of the room. She let out a giggle, even his silhouette is scorching in hotness.
"You didn't even bother turning on the heater. Tell me, are trying to kill me in anger, huh?" His voice was fierce but the trace of worry in his tone is still visible.
Angela got up from bed. "No one is trying to kill you in anger, come here." She patted her side in a very adoring way. Her husband is already wearing his satin pajama, what time did he arrive?
Zhu Li had know choice but to obey his wife. He gently bring his self to her wife's side and envelope her with his arm, tight enough to make his wife frozen in spot.
"Li..." her adorable innocent voice called him out. "Let's sleep." His voice stern, he badly want to sleep with his wife right now.
Angela moaned and scooted closer to him, to feel his body more. She shut her eyes and feel the warm embrace of his husband. "Your home," she mumbled before falling in a deep slumber.
Alone.
That was Angela felt when she opened here eyes. She was again, at the basement. Her ankle was chained, she couldn't even lie down. What did I do, this time?
Her innocent eyes bore at the basement's door. She then check her body, no bloods but few injuries. A dead a silence before she cried, she cried that she no longer felt she's a human. Her 16 years old self has suffered enough, tortures after tortures. Different kind of tortures she already conquered.
She felt numb, the pain she felt before felt nothing right now. Can she just walk through the light? Can somehow free her out? Because she's too tired, too exhausted to even blink an eye.
Why, of all the people did God chose her to suffer? Her mom was life-sentence on jail, her father gone. She was force to squeeze in in her aunt's family. The most evil family, she thought.
"Angela? Are you there?"
Angela snap out from her thought upon hearing that wicked voice followed by an evil laugh. Her uncle, her uncle is outside!
She felt suffocated, her heart is pumping so hard. Another set of tears fell down from her eyes. She don't want to see him, she can't see him!
She cried and cried, her mind clouded by negative thoughts... what if....what if he would touch her again? What if he succed on...
Angela screamed in fear when the door infront open, she embrace herself, murmuring on her self.
"No, no, no, no please...stop it! I'll b--be a g--good g--girl..."
Whimper after whimper, that was Zhu Li heared even when she's in a deep slumber.
He glance at the ticking wall clock infront. It is already 4 am, but his eyes are still wide awake. He just finished a work a while ago and immediately went to bed when he check the time, afraid that her wife would notice the empty space around her. He knew Angela would not like it when he works overtime.
He keeps on kissing her shoulders, whispering hush and brushing her hair. Another nightmare, he knew nothing about her bloddy nightmare not because he couldn't know the reason but because he chose not to know it. Her sufferings.
He was waiting for her to open up, he was waiting for his wife to finally open herself to him because he knew, her heart is still not certain.
She too doesn't know the real him but he knew how her wife mind works. He knew she already has an idea on what he does behind the scene. She have seen him with guns, subordinates whom are retired navys. But as long as he would not do something to hurt her, she would do everything to keep him and be with him.
"What time is it?"
"4 am, its still early, sleep again."
But Angela shook her head, she felt slightly thirsty. She look at her husband and her husband immediately went to fetch a glance of water. Its like they already knew what on each others mind.
After finishing the glass of water, Angela got up from bed. She tied her hair and went abover her husband who's just observing her.
Her lips nestled into a smile. She leaned forward to give him a kiss.
"Good Morning, Mr Zhu. I'll go downstairs first to prepare breakfast."
"How about making you as my breakfast, Mrs Zhu?"
Angela yelled when Zhu Li suddenly lift her up without a word and made its way to the bathroom.
She giggled in his arms. "You scared me!"
Still giggling, her husband gently lie her down on the bathtub filled with lavenders. Slowy, he help her undress her dress. They didn't say a word to each other. She was just observing him, the way his hand gently massage her back, the way his fingers would brush on her now naked body, she always felt butterflies on her stomach when he's doing even the smallest gestures.
She let herself be comfortable, afterwards she leaned on his husband's chest.
"I'll be gone for three days, I need to stay in Shanghai for advance preparations." She whispered, fingers playing with the water.
"Xiao He, the President's daughter will arrive days from now. You know how critical her condition are, right? I belive, only I can operate her."
Zhu Li knew how Angela love her job so much. He knew when it comes to her job, nothing can stop her. It just how she is, saving and helping someone is in her nature. A surgeon, that was she do.
"I'll help you pack your clothes then,"
Zhu Li then leaned to gave her a quick kiss before looking at her eyes.
He gave a dangerous smirk. "But you also need to compensate your husband..." Angela gulp. "Like a massage?"
"Uh-huh. You can massage me down there."