77 An Apology

Thursday, continued ...

Having realised that she had no option but to cooperate with Anna Jones, Supervisor An, collected the local Intranet login details from her desk and walked and handed it to Anna.

"Thank you Supervisor An," responded Anna on being handed the information.

Anna re-set up her laptop and pretended to use the log-in information for the legal department intranet to recommence working, but she logged in with the information for the CEO's network Assistant Wang provided earlier.As soon as she logged in, she received a message from Hou Yi

'Are you back safe and sound?'

'I am.I am 99% sure that no one saw me when surrounded by the bodyguards and caught a taxi back as if I had been released by the immigration department.'

'OK'

'Just one thing, if we are going to do the setups like today, we better make sure that I have a second set of clothes with me, a flirty set, like a new bride visiting her CEO husband at lunch time.It will lessen the risk of someone potentially putting things together, especially why I am working here.'

'Not a problem.How about the set up being in the future, you leave the legal department on the basis you are coming to a meeting about 12pm with documents, you walk up and hand over a set of 'blank' pages to Assistant Wang, and then go downstairs and leave via taxi, and are picked up at a location, where you change, and come back as my wife, spending until about 1:50pm, and we reverse the process for you to come back as Anna Jones, the lawyer.'

Before Anna could reply, there was a knock on the door.She immediately clicked on the video and audio surveillance in the room, and responded "Come In."

At the same time, she typed to Hou Yi 'Someone is coming in.It is Lawyer Mei.I have put the cameras on if you are interested.'

Lawyer Mei, walked in and took a seat across the desk from Anna "Lawyer Jones"

"Yes Lawyer Mei," Anna answered somewhat abruptly.

"I have something that I have to tell you," Lawyer Mei responded quietly."Please do not hate me.After you arrived and were introduced to us, I quickly searched for you on the Internet.While I confirmed that you were a Lawyer in Australia, I doubted that you had the right permits to work here including doubting that you were married, so I called immigration and reported you to them.Given you are back, it appears that they were satisfied that you are entitled to work here.I can only apologise for my actions."

"Lawyer Mei, thank you for your apology.I can only guess that you were concerned about the company and did not want any trouble to happen.Please, however do not call me Lawyer Jones, my name is Anna, or if that it too hard call me Miss Jones."

At the same time of this she typed a message to Hou Yi 'Yi, she admitted she called immigration and apologised.Will message you soon'

"Again, all I can do is apologise, Miss Anna for what I did.I have to admit that I have never liked the name my parents gave me, so I always introduce myself as Amanda," Responded Lawyer Mei

"Amanda there is no need to apologise.I can see that you meant no harm."

"Miss Anna, do you mind telling me a little how you came to be here?"

With that a message from Hou Yi popped up 'Be careful, I still do not trust her despite her apology for calling immigration'

Anna responded 'Will do'

"Amanda, I promised my businessman husband that I would not give out too much information, as he does not want his identity known here.We met in Australia, and agreed to get married here in City T, his hometown.We married a couple of days ago and were planning to have our honeymoon before we returned to Australia and finalised my life there, so we could move here as he needs to be here for business."

Anna Took a breath and continued, "My employers ANX Lawyers in Australia contacted me yesterday afternoon about a serious issue for the Australia Subsidiary, and as I was here arrangements were made for me to come in and deal with the matter and send documents back to Australia.Look I would love to talk more, but I really need get into the work I need to do, as the quicker it is done the sooner I can go on my honeymoon with my husband."

"Not a problem," replied Amanda Mei, and she left the room.Once the door was closed, Anna switched off the surveillance system again.

'I see you told her the absolute truth but admitted nothing.Clever.'

'Well, a simple story here in your office is what we need, and it falls exactly in line with what we are telling everyone else'

'True'

'Yi, I need to deal with the next batch of documents.I will let you know when I am ready to come up to deal with them.Bye.'