Breaking the News - Part 4

Thursday, continued …

Hou Yi moved to a corner of the sitting room, and James followed him. Hou Yi quietly asked "James, are you certain about this?"

"Yi you know the discussion we had last night. I was certain on sight Alecia was the one for me. My priority is what she wants, her happiness, well-being and safety. That requires her dealing with what Lu Jinhu did to her. You know I was ready to kill him for what he did to Anna, now you can imagine what I want to do to him, let alone his father."

"Alecia needs to be away from here while the police investigation goes on. Using the excuse of going to study in Australia for two terms achieves that without people knowing. But I wanted to make sure that we were not forcing it onto her. It needed to be her choice."