JEWELS

"I had some work that I needed done." Wu answered with a vague unceremonious response. He deliberately chose not to exactly enlighten her of what particular work he required to be undertaken and where precisely he had taken off to. He did not wish to dishearten her by not letting her know, but it was for her good for he had something else in mind. Something Yue would not begin to even think of, and something he was hoping would be to her liking. He could not disclose everything about it to her yet.