When Lena woke up, Kris was already gone and his side of the bed was already cold. Lena scooted to where he slept and cover her self in the blanket and slept a bit more.
The worse thing about her life lately was waking up to an empty bed and going to work. She wished she could spend her entire day just with Kris. But since he as gone... at least she can focus on work to get her mind off missing Kris too much.
So that was what Lena did for the rest of the week. She finalized the collaboration with LUX and the items were in production stages.
She checked up on Andy and he was doing fine too. Lena thought about hanging out with Gary and Hazel but they were both gone too. Gary was gone to work on stuff for his new company and Hazel was taking a break in some overseas.
Lena sighed. Everyone was out doing things... Today was Thursday... and tomorrow she would be going to City B to meet with Mr. Sanders. COO Brown had invited her last time and she promised to visit so she was not going to deny the plans now.
After Friday comes then she would be seeing Kris on Sat.u.r.day at the Old Li mansion. Gosh... being lonely was killing her.
She still had a few more hours of work but her brain finally stopped working. She already completed all her paperwork but just did not want to leave. Going back to her apartment just reminded her of Kris.
Lena picked up her phone and called her mother.
"Lena?" Shen Milli answered.
"Hey. I was planning on coming over tonight and stay at home for a few days." Lena replied.
"Why? Did you break up with your boyfriend?"
"NO!"
"Why would you come home? You can spend your time with your boyfriend." Shen Milli suggested.
"He"s busy."
"What man is too busy for his woman."
"Mom. Can"t I just come home cuz I want to?!" Lena complained.
"Of course. I just prefer if you bring me a grandchild instead."
"You have not even met him yet?"
"It"s ok. I will meet him sooner or later but I don"t think I can wait for kids." Shen Milli spoke.
"Why does everyone want me to be pregnant already? I can pop out six kids in a blink of an eye when it"s time."
"Oh good... so he wants kids too. Are you the one holding it off instead? I thought it would be him, not you."
Lena paused and processed what her mother just said. Had she been the one holding it off? Kris and she had been talking about doing it multiple times but just never did. Was it because she said she was not ready the first time and he was waiting for her to give him the go-ahead?
Lena thought that they were both just waiting for a good time... but maybe he was just being patient with her. Lena would need to initiate it next time then, for sure. And make sure they were on the same page. Less joking and more serious.
"Fine... I am not coming home today then. Maybe on Friday. You didn"t tell dad yet, right? About him?"
"No. He still thinks that he will have his little Lili with him forever although he keeps pretending that it is fine with you getting engaged or married."
"I know... dad is just being a dad."
"Alright... I"ll see you at home on Friday."
Lena said her goodbyes and hung up the call. She looked at the desk and then at the door. She decided to leave work early today.
Lena cleaned up her work desk and grabbed her bag. She opened the door.
"Diane. I am leaving early today. And remember I won"t be in the office tomorrow so just send me anything that needs my attention to my tablet."
"Yes." Diane replied.
Lena walked over the elevator and James followed her out.
After her time with Kris, Lena had pushed herself to train harder with James. With her free time after work, she spent most of it with James.
James got into the driver"s seat and Lena got inside the car herself.
"Where to?" He asked.
"The hospital."
"Are you sick anywhere?"
"No."
James looked at Lena just to make sure she was alright. He nodded and started the car. He drove Lena to the hospital where she would usually go and where the Shen family doctor was. Lena told James to stay in the car and that she would be quick. About 20 minutes later, Lena came back out of the hospital.
Lena got inside the car and closed the door.
"Ok. Take me back to my place."
James drove Lena back to her place. She told him that she would do her daily exercises herself but not too much since she will be at Cyrus tomorrow.
As promised, once James dropped her off, Lena went up to her place first. She dressed into some comfortable clothes before using the speed elevator to go up to Kris" penthouse. She had her own workout room but Kris had more varieties of machines and equipment. She had just been using his place instead of hers.
Additionally, being up here made her miss him less... as if he was secretly watching her as she was sneaking around his place.
Lena finished her workout, ate, showered, and went to sleep. She had not been to Cyrus before and was kind of feeling an unknown emotional of uncertainty.
She woked up early the next day to get ready. It also took a long ride to get to City B so she did not want to be late. James picked her up on time and he drove them to Cyrus.
When they arrived, Lena was greeted with a very big building. She did not expect Cyrus to be this big. She knew that Mr. Sanders had a successful business but they did not even plan to make it big here in China.
Regardless, as she stepped out of the car, she can see that they had very high security. She spotted a high quality outside security system and a high volume of guards.
Lena spotted COO Brown coming out of the building to greet her.
"Miss. Shen!"
"COO Brown." Lena shook his hands.
"Thank you for making the trip for visiting Cyrus today. I am so pleased to show you around."
"Absolutely."