Killer Nights

Chapter 100: A-Jiao's Abduction

The dumpling joint was unusually busy tonight.  By the time Jiang Zhengkai got the dumplings and left, it was already 8:20PM.  He had the waiter place the dumplings in a plastic container and then called A-Jiao on his cell phone as he left the restaurant.

“Honey, I might be a bit late.  I just left the dumpling place,” Jiang Zhengkai said intimately over the phone.  He couldn’t remember when he’d developed the habit of calling A-Jiao “Honey.”

“Alright, Honey!” A-Jiao replied in an equally intimate manner.  “Be careful on the road. No need to hurry. I’m not done here yet.  I’ll meet you at the preschool’s front door.”

“Okay, be safe!” said Jiang Zhengkai before he hung up.  Since he’d already told A-Jiao he’d be late picking her up, he didn’t need to hurry back.  Besides, it was the summer, so he wasn’t worried that the dumplings he’d just picked up would get cold quickly.  He was more worried that walking...