Somewhere Special

Jian pushed Li Hua out of the hospital, Chang walked beside them, purposefully looking anywhere else but at the two of them. Outside Hao Jin Ying was waiting by the large black sedan that they had arrived in.

Jian helped Li Hua into the front passenger seat beside Hao Jin Ying. While he helped her mother, Chang rolled the wheelchair back to the entrance quickly. When she came back Chang saw Jian standing beside an open back door, waiting for her. Avoiding eye contact with him still she hurried into her seat, feeling awkward.Chang reached to grab the seatbelt when she felt him grab it first, leaning over her, brushing her slightly as he buckled her in. After securing her in he came to the other side and told Hao Jin Ying to take them to the private airstrip.

"Where are we going?" Chang generally liked surprises but she was starting to get a little impatient.

"Someplace special." Jian answered her.

Chang pouted with a mulish expression on her face. 'That's not an answer..' She complained inwardly. The man next to her couldn't help but chuckle seeing her adorable childish reaction.

"Xiao Jing will you be coming with us?"

'"Xiao Jing?"' Chang thought to herself, when did her mother come to know Jian's personal secretary? And get to know her enough to give her a pet name.

"Indeed I shall be going to accompany you LiHua."

"Oh that will be wonderful!" Clapping her hands together, LiHua exclaimed delighted by Jin Ying's answer.

"How do you two know eachother?" Unable to stand the mystery anymore, Chang piped up from the back.

"Xiao Jing has been staying with me for the last 8 months, she's been helping me with some stuff. Ah'Jian introduced us."

"'Ah'Jian?" Oh my god that so doesn't suit him' Chang snickered to herself hearing the name her mother gave Jian.

"What has she been helping you with, why didn't you tell me you needed help with anything?" Leaning forward, Chang put a hand on the side of her mother's chair .

"Oh the daughter who's always gallavanting around never taking the time to come visit her dear old mother, that one? And just when would that daughter have been available to help?"

Chang cringed hearing her mother's mocking airy tone, yep, she deserved that one. Li Hua turned in her seat to look at her daughter. "She's been helping me with some of the estate stuff your dad left me, it's all nonsense to me."

"Oh." It seemed like a stretch that Jian would send her mother his personal secretary who was like an omnipotent office goddess to help her mother with just some inheritance papers, but then again...He also was the man who literally chased her down on the street halfway across the world, just because she left without explanation.

'I can't put anything past him.'

After an hour or two of fighting through traffic they pulled up to the private airstrip where a smaller black jet plane sat. Hao Jin Ying gently pulled the car up beside plane. Liang Jian Amal and the ladies quickly descended from the vehicle and headed towards the plane's entry steps where a young man waited. He bowed low to Liang JianAmal and took the car keys from Hao Jin Ying, leaving without a word.

"After you ladies," Jian smiled and gestured with his hand, holding a hand out to help assist Li Hua and Chang up the steps. Li Hua gracefully laid her hand on Jian's and alighted the stairs fluidly. Chang put her hands on top of Jian's, copying what her mother did, but when she felt him lightly squeeze her hand back she stumbled on the first few steps. The only reason she did not fall completely was from the pressure under her hand.

'How embarrassing! You have to get it together!' Chang mentally chastised herself.

Jian stepped up behind her as the last to enter the plane. "Careful now."

"Mm thank you." Chang turned and said with a small smile once inside. Jian was stunned for a moment by her words and warmly smiled at her causing her heart to flutter in her chest.

'Damn this man for his sinful good looks, he has to be bad for my heart.' She had been getting reused to his constant presence over the last couple days, but his touch was like electricity.

'Not to mention this morning's scene', she started to drool inwardly thinking about it. 'Ah at this rate I'll be as bad as he is!' Chang shook her head clearing the "bad" thoughts. Turning from him Chang went to sit in one of the plush comfortable chairs near her mom and Jin Ying.

Liang Jian Amal walked to the cockpit and spoke to the two flight captains who waited inside to let them know they were about ready to take off. He then chose the empty seat next to Chang and captured one of her tiny hands in his. She looked at him with an embarrassed and shocked expression, under her gaze he kissed the back of her hand.

Slowly color bled across her face from her cheeks, he loved doing that to her. Turning away from him, Chang looked across the aisle at the other two women, who conspicuously looked away, offering no help.

A flight attendant came out from a small area separating the cabin from the cock pit and closed the hatch. She checked to make sure that everyone was strapped in before signaling the pilots and strapping herself in. The plane came alive with a loud whine before taking to the sky. Chang became glad that Jian was holding her hand through takeoff. Even though she was excited for what was to come, she hated the sudden dropping sensation in her stomach.