Chapter 12 - 12. "Trade secret"... (1/2)

His eyes softened and became warm as he looked at her nonchalant side profile.

Somehow, she created a perfect blend of west and east. Her exquisite looks with that traditional look gave a natural ambiance and didn't look out of place, even though, she was practically treating her drive like an F1 race, as the speed kept on increasing.

' It's weird or maybe she seems perfect to me no matter the cause.' He thought to himself.

As the view outside literally started blurring, he wondered if she was inspecting the speed limits and let out a light chuckle, which gained her notice.

She gave him a confused look, as if, asking why was he smiling.

He just smiled and said,” Linlin, where are we going?”

”Ah!...To pick up grandpa's present.” she shrugged.

”hmm~ Present, is it?”, he gave a curious look.

This time he took a better look at the road and noticed that they were on their way to the airport.

”You found her!!”, he exclaimed loudly.

She was expecting it and smiled.

”How?”, he was really a bit flustered.

Well, they were talking about someone who has been out of their radar for over a year now!! Even he was unable to get hold of her using all his legal connections, so, it came as a shock.[The keyword being 'legal'...my son is trying to be as civil as possible!!]

She gave a soft laugh and chided, ”Trade secret.”

”Linlin!!”, he was basically pouting.

”haha...it's nothing much. She has been out of station for a year now and I noticed that grandpa was lonely so, I decided to use myself as bait this time and it worked. Well, I had to bribe her a bit but it's worth it if you both are happy.”, she explained while poking at those flared up puffed cheeks.

”Ah!! No wonder.”, he was really shocked but thinking about their grandpa, he too, was happy and then he took another look at her.

'It was a rare look...no wonder', he thought to himself.

”So, where did you find her? Last time she sent a pic and said that she was in Hawaii, of course, we couldn't find her there” he was very, very curious.

”haha..why did you search there? Of course, she wouldn't leave a trail behind and was giving a feint”, she knew that person the best.