Second Chance

Hong Kong

I hear something ringing. At first I thought it was Brooklyn playing with one of her toys. The ringing stops so I turn back over and wrap my arms around my sleeping husband. The ringing starts again and I'm more awake now. It's my phone ringing. I roll over as Dylan starts to stir. It's Laura. She's taken over things at the office for me until I return to work. It figures that the one night she decides to sleep through the whole time we still have to get up at 4 am.

"Hello."

"Sorry to wake you Sir. We have an issue with the Hong Kong Office. I tried telling them you weren't available but they insisted they would only deal with you. Again I'm sorry Sir."

"Not your fault Laura. What are they wanting now?"

"They want a 12% increase in profit on their end. We gave them ways to do it on their side of things but they insist that we sell to them at a 12% discount."

"Well that's not going to happened. We've had this discussion with them already." I get up and walk downstairs. I'm hoping Dylan can get a little more sleep before he has to go into work today. I slip past Brooklyn's door and can't help but peek in on her. She's still sound asleep. I close her door all the way before making my way to my office.

"I'm well aware Sir. I informed them of this and still they insist on speaking with only you. They've shut down their offices until we resolve this."

"I might be able to schedule a video conference with them during Brooklyn's nap later today."

"I'm afraid they are insisting to speak with you in person. They're arriving here within the hour."

"It's over a 14 hour flight." Fuck. I can't go into work today.

"I know Sir. We've been on the phone with them for the last two days. I didn't know they were on their way here until about three hours ago."

"Why wasn't I notified earlier?" I need to be there now.

"I didn't want to disturb you at home if we could avoid it. Also we were given strict instructions that we were only to disturb you under extreme conditions."

"What are you talking about? Whose instructions?"

"Your husband's Sir."

"Of course he did. I will be in as soon as I can."

"Yes Sir."

I hang up and head back upstairs. I'm going to attempt to get a few more hours of sleep if I can. Let the Hong Kong guys wait. My husband being the wonderful man that he is needs me more. I didn't even think of letting Laura know that she was needed to take over for me when we went to get Brooklyn over three months ago. I'm glad he thought of telling her but we need to have a talk about him keeping things from. If I had know about this two days ago it would have been resolved then without the need for me to head into work. I trust Laura I really do but somethings I just need to handle myself.

The alarm goes off at 6 am. Dylan has to get up early for work. He turns off the alarm and carefully slides out of bed as not to wake me. He gives me a kiss and heads to the bathroom. I'm awake but I don't want to be so I'm laying still with my eyes closed in an attempt to pretend to be asleep. I hope the phone call a few hours ago was all part of a horrible dream. I don't want to get up. I would give him a kiss and roll back over to go to sleep any other day. Unless Brooklyn was awake, in which case she would be in the middle of the bed demanding all our attention.

I get out of bed and head to her room, opening the door just enough to check to see if she's still sleeping. She's sound asleep and her wolf is tucked under her arm. She still has her soother in and she gives it a few sucks before snuggling into her wolf further. She's adorable. I close her door and head back to our room.