CHAPTER 31

  Saturday affairs four

  "You had it?" exclaimed Johnson as he looked at the box placed on his palms.

  Raymond nodded with a gingerly smile on his face. Johnson looked at him in disbelief and then turned to look at Angel who also had a grin on her face and exclaimed.

  "All this time Raymond?"

  "All this time!"

  Raymond just shrugged his shoulder and gave him a gentle push with the tip of his fingers and said,

  "Well, to be honest, I didn't do any of the arrangements that you had asked for. But I do this one. Make it worth it."

  Holding the ivory box in his hands, Johnson looked at Maddison, and then taking a deep breath, he knelt and said,

  "Aren't I the luckiest man to be kneeling twice in front of a woman I love," and saying that he opened the box which contained the epitome of his love for her.