Chapter 88 - Kidnapping (2/2)

Another bottle of wine is opened and we keep drinking. Even the wimpy drinker Didi also drinks a little. Her face is steamed pink by the alcohol, which is very cute.

Just as everyone are laughing, my mobile phone is ringing suddenly. I pick it up and answer: “Hello?”

“Chen Yang! Where are you?” It is Penny, Nanny’s secretary’s voice.

“Well… I’m at home.” I sigh, “I’m having a little personal business today. I called my department and asked for leave in the morning.”

She seems indifferent to my behavior of as a manager but not at work. Her voice is very gentle on the phone and mention casually: “Can you come out now?”

“What’s up?”

“Miss Fang is back.” The voice is not very loud, but this sentence makes the laugh on my face is fading clean! She keeps saying, “You’re going to pick her up at the airport.”

I feel a little bitter in my voice: “Why do you want me to pick her up? I’m not her assistant any more.”

“Chen Yang.” Penny interrupts me on the phone, “This is what Miss Fang asked for.” Then she changes her tone a little softer, “I don’t want to say anything else. What should be said, I’ve all said when last time we talked for a long time. You just think it over yourself.”

“I see.” I nod and reply her.

I thought Nanny should be back in few days later. Although I am ready to face her again and decide to make things clear to her, then quit my job and go. But she suddenly comes back and I am about to meet her soon without any preparation, I am still a bit caught off guard.

“Chen Yang…” Penny hesitates for a moment and whispers, “I suggest that if you want to say something, you’d better wait till tomorrow. Business in Korea is not going well, so she comes back earlier. I spoke to her on the phone. Miss Fang is in a bad mood now.”

Then she tells me the time and flight number. I look at the clock. It is getting a bit late. The flight is expected to arrive in two hours.

I sigh and simply tell others that I have some urgent business to go to the company. Despite some disappointment, Didi is gentle enough to show that she understands me. I just want to laugh and cry.

Azle and Jojo stay for go on have lunch, while Wood says he wants to go to the clinic earlier and decides to leave with me.

I think about it. On the way to the airport, I can drop him back to the clinic.

Walking out, going downstairs, getting on the car, Wood is sitting beside me. When the car starts, he suddenly lights a cigarette, open the windows and takes a breath. He looks at me and says: “You have something in your mind.”

“What do you say?”

He’s smiling and says: “That call.”

I am speechless. Wood’s reaction is actually very sharp. Although his appearance looks very “wooden”, but this is just his personality, in fact, Wood’s observation ability is very sharp!

As I’m driving, I just sigh: “You see that?”

“Well.” Suddenly he’s smiling, it’s a strange smile, “Woman?”

I hesitate for a moment: “It’s… Not really… It’s a bit unclear… I feel indebt to a woman who is very kind to me… But I don’t know how to tell her… Anyway, that’s not clear.”

Wood listens to me quietly and says only a short sentence: “If you can’t say it clearly, don’t say it.”

I am silent.

To be honest, in fact, I was a little hesitant just now. When I meet Nanny, what should I say?

Wood’s advice might be more appropriate. Don’t say anything at all, just resign and leave. Don’t even mention the complicated emotions between each other! This is obviously the easiest way to do it.

After take Wood back to the clinic. I drive all the way out of town, get on the airport highway and go straight to the airport.

After waiting for around half an hour in the lounge of the airport, looking at the time, counting, Nanny’s plane should be coming soon. I extinguish the cigarette in my hand, walking out of the smoking lounge and standing at the exit.

I’m wondering what attitude should I make when I meet Nanny later? Friend? Subordinate? So when should I make everything clear with her?

Say on the way back? It will be just the two of us in the car. Or just wait for back to the company? Or am I going to invite her to dinner sometime in the evening, apologize to her, and explain what I think?

It seems all right, and it seems all not appropriate.

I touch a bank card in my pocket. This is what I have prepared after I got the winnings today.

There are six million in this bank card. I want to give these monies to Nanny for compensation. After all, I lost the ring and a diamond brooch, plus the 300,000 car accident losses I owed her before.

Although I won a big prize, but after the tax deduction, in fact, there are only a bit more than six million on my hands. If I give six million out, I have almost no money left, but I don’t care.

I should have returned the money to Nanny. If I owe her, I must pay it back!

But just then, my mobile phone is ringing again.

I look at the number is not a familiar one. I pick it up and answer.

“Hello! Manager! Manager!”

The voice is familiar. I’m stunned for a moment before I can tell that it’s the voice of the round-faced customer service girl in my department.

“Well, what’s wrong?”

“Manager, Chen Yang… It’s me! Something’s wrong! Something happened!” There’re panics in the voice on the phone.

I immediately say: “Don’t panic… What is it? What happened to the company? Speak slowly!”

“It’s Yanny. Something’s wrong with her!” The little girl is almost crying.

My heart is tighting: “What happened to Yanny?”

The little girl’s voice is trembling: “I… I went shopping with her at noon today. We were on our way back to the company just now. We met a few people. One of the men seems to know Yanny. They stopped us and wanted to take her away. She didn’t want to, these men were about to beat us, and then she promised to go with them as soon as she saw the situation was not good. Chen Yang, what should I do? I don’t think those guys are good guys. These men are gangsters at first sight. They have tattoos on their arms. Yanny and them got into a car. Before they left, she comforted me and said it was all right. I didn’t have to call the police. Tell me not to tell others. But I’m really scared. I think about it and can only to find you.”

“FXXX!” I can’t help cursing.

It’s not clear yet, but I can at least guess who’s causing Yanny’s trouble! It must be that shit scum!

I take a deep breath: “Don’t panic first. Think about what else is going on, and what else is missing. Tell me all about it!”

Then, under my inquiry, the little girl tells me more details like time, place, etc. Fortunately, she was so careful that she even gave out the car license plate numbers of the opponents. And I ask for Yanny’s home address, she immediately tells me too.

“Well, leave it to me.” I think better of it, “You don’t have to call the police. I’ll deal with this matter… Well, besides, don’t talk about it in the company.”

I can understand Yanny’s concerns. After all, it’s privacy. At the same time, she’s used not to wash her dirty linen in public. Her image and reputation in the company is very good, and she’s also very popular. Nowadays, there are many people like to gossip.

I hang up the phone, check the time, hesitate for a few seconds, and decide that it is more important to save Yanny. Who knows what extraordinary things would be done by the shit scum?

I can’t wait for Nanny’s plane lands. She’s in the sky now and her mobile phone must be off and out of service. I can only send her a text message to say there’s something urgent. Then I run out of the airport and drive all the way up the highway to the city.

On the way, I think over it and call William, the chief security of Golden Paradise, my former colleague.

“William? It’s me! Chen Yang.”

“Brother little 5?!” At the other end of the phone, William’s voice sounds surprised, “What’s the matter? Is there anything I can do for you?”

I don’t say anything useless: “Yes! You help me find some help and wait for my call. Today I’m going to clean up a scum!”

At the other end of the phone, William is laughing loudly, he says: “OK! Just not a problem! I’ll do for you!”