
Sandra POV
I got to the hotel almost eleven o'clock. Usually I pick up Oliver and talk to him for a while, now it feels different. Am I thinking about it now? Strange, when he was next to me I tried to ignore him, now that he is not there I feel lost instead.
'Can I call?' Coinciding with that, a message from Oliver went into my phone.
'By, ' I replied shortly afterwards.
"How was your day?" I don't know why I'm happy to hear his voice.
"Well, have you met Ko Derrick?"
"I didn't think Ko Derrick was that young. I forgot to ask for a picture of him, there was your Brother Joseph and Brother Shim." I laughed immediately, Ko Derrick is not his age, he could have guessed my brother if I walked by his side, even though he was seven years older than me.
"Ko Derrick is almost five heads but his face is still 30, many people do not believe. Brother Joseph's coming, he's in Macau, maybe he's going to Hong Kong to see Ko Derrick, I didn't see him this afternoon."
"I was making a mess, I thought Brother Joseph was your Ko Derrick, I forgot to look at the photos, I thought we'd meet up alone."
"So is my Ko Derrick good?"
"Yes he's good."
"He didn't scold you?
"A little bit..." I grimaced, now I wonder how Ko Derrick saw it. I'll call him tomorrow. He's quiet there.
"Tomorrow I'll meet Philip with your brother. Solve your problems, after this Kent won't bother you anymore."
"I hope so, being able to return freely to Hong Kong would be nice." If the problem's solved, I'm just asking for the rest of Kent's life not to bother me anymore. That's all..."
"I lost you here... I can usually look at you and talk for a while. But today you're gone.I don't seduce you, just frankly about what I'm feeling right now. You don't have to answer me."
I don't really know how to answer that.
"At night, where are you going tomorrow?"
"Hmm. I'm going to my orphanage a long time ago."
"The foster home that raised you."
"Yes." Yeah."
"Well, I'm off tomorrow, if you want to have dinner together in the afternoon?" He's taking dinner, I need to hear Ko Derrick's opinion of him first.
"Hmm.I'll see tomorrow. I'll call you or text you later."
"Yes fine if so. Good night then."
The call ended then, I can't wait for the next morning to call Ko Derrick.
"Cococo? What about Oliver? How do you think he is?"
"It does exist, believe me he's not that polite if Nguyen doesn't give him a manners course...."
"I thought you were helping him."
"No, I'm just saying you're not gonna kill him. Because he was nervous yesterday..." Ko Derrick is laughing now.
"Actually when he sees that, he's kind enough, he's trying and willing to learn to give up on you, he's willing to admit his mistakes and ignore your family and learn to compromise with me. Though at the beginning of the meeting I tried to corner him to see if he had a temperament and quickly offended, but he still had an acceptable answer when cornered. But it seems he can think quite logically..."
"Ohhh... Is that so? So Koko doesn't think she's good enough."
"Yes, he can quite muffle the ego, .. he is quite good, at least he emphasizes he is a person who can commit. But it depends on the two of you living it later. He's 44, I think at that age maybe he just wants a quiet life..."
Koko Derrick doesn't mind, he's considered good, at least I can trust me in that judgment.
"Is Kent still trying to bother you?"
"I don't know, I blocked all his contacts after the incident in Jakarta. He couldn't reach me with his number, but he didn't use another number until now to call me."
"Alright, however he must pay for what he does."
I went to a place that was my childhood home. Orphanage, I ran away from there at 15, living a hard life on the streets, but there was a man who made me come back after years of not coming back, one of the nannies who was there, I consider her my sister.
Years later at the age of 25 after my life had calmed down enough, I first came back here, and he still recognized me. Hugging me while crying.
"Where are you, why don't you go. Cece Li is worried about you... Why did you leave...." I think having someone who remembers me and worries about me after so many years without seeing me is a great miracle for me.
And since then I've been looking for him. Asking reportedly, setting aside my salary for the parlor that raised me, gave her a little New Year parcel.
"You haven't been here in a long time? Working abroad?"
"Yes, I worked in Singapore and Jakarta for a few years." Kent knew this place, when I was good and didn't know the dark side of it yet I was happy to tell my family to him and it's possible that he used it to threaten me .
"Thank God you're okay. Cece receives angpao every year, but you've never been here." I smiled at him, followed him to take care of the children he had to take care of, he took care of the ones who were over 8 years old. Since I'm not a lucky child to have adopted parents, I'm under his care.
"Grace! You're here! Why don't you go to school and play!" A girl with her hair, she ran away from him. I saw myself in that boy.
"Cece let me go after him." My girlfriend is not young anymore, she should have moved to a younger one, but she said she wanted to stay on this part.
"Bring her here, I need to talk to her ..."
He ran to the front gate earlier so now I'm looking for him to get out of the building's compound gate. Where he's hiding...
I saw him and called him.
"Grace, baby come here, brother has a gift, you want?" He looked at me.
"I knew you'd be here Sandra."
This sound! My legs are squeezing now.