Offer To The CEO Chapter 9: An Option

9 An Option

Hou Yi, in realising that there were little options open to him given the late ti of day, said to Anna "I need to think", and turned slightly away from Anna Jones.

Anna stared at Hou Yi, and then rembered the papers that she had gotten from the Australian Embassy on their arrival.As Lu Jinhu, in fact had Australian Citizenship, they were unlikely to have been able to marry here.However, it did explain why when they arrived at the Embassy, he acted as he had gotten a telephone call and absented himself from the room while the official was completing the paperwork she needed.She pulled out the paperwork to have a look at it, and realised where the space for the husband's na, address, and date of birth were left blank, but his nationality was filled in.Anna then recalled the Embassy official saying with the letter he was providing the official at the Civil Administration Bureau could fill in his na on the forms at the ti of their marriage.She checked the form and realised that all her information was correct, save and except for her Australian address (her postal address however was correct).She flipped over to the letter attached to the paperwork.It stated that her fiancée had been briefly t by the official, but due to business commitnt he was unable to stay for the formalities to be completed but failed to ntion his na.It also stated that he was a respected businessperson, and the embassy official was quite willing, given they trusted him to complete the paperwork in his absence and asked that the Civil Administration Bureau officials complete the form due to the trust the Embassy official had in him.Anna laughed to herself about the comnt about the Embassy official trusting Lu Jinhu and saying he was a respected businessperson.After re-reading the paperwork and the letter to confirm what she believed she had read, Anna was sure, it completely failed to ntion Lu Jinhu.

While Anna was doing this, Hou Yi, simply watched her and wondered what she was doing, while trying to think about how he could solve the problem that he now is confronted with, in less than two hours so a marriage can occur before the Civil Administration Bureau closes for the day.

Anna, interrupted Hou Yi's thoughts, by quietly stating "Actually, I think I could help you."She then looked at Hou Yi who appeared stunned.

"How could you help.You would have had have paperwork with Lu Jinhu's na on it, and that will not help .I'll have to try making so calls and see if there is soone, I know that will help prevent an absolute disaster."Hou Yi tone made Anna realise that he was frustrated and barely keeping himself together, as much as she was doing the sa.

"Before you do anything, have a look at this paperwork.I think you will find sothing quite different" Anna responded quietly while handing the docunts she just read to Hou Yi.

Hou Yi shook his head "It will not help if I look at the paperwork.I'm sorry I have to make so calls, but I will help you to the extent that I can."

Hou Yi stood back up and was ready to take a step, when Anna grabbed his arm "Please.Please take a look and then tell I cannot help you.Simply by listening to what happened to you have helped , and now I would like to try and help you."

Hou Yi, looked down at the hand that had grabbed into his hand, and decided 2 minutes to look at docunts he knew were useless to him would ultimately make no difference, and then sat back down.He took the docunts from Anna as he sat back down, beside her and said "Alright.I have nothing to lose in spending a couple of minutes looking at them at this stage."

Hou Yi started to focus on the docunts to quickly read them.As he got through the docunts, including the letter he was certain that he did not see Lu Jinhu's na or any na of a husband-to-be ntioned.He did not think that could be correct, as he was aware from friends and staff who married foreigners, the paperwork from their embassy required the spouse's na and details.He realised that the two minutes he thought might need to be longer and started to re-read the docunts to see what was actually in them.