Love Began with the First Meeting

"You may look around to find where Charlie and Evelyn are. I'll just be going to the Main Hall," Brian anxiously said to Molly when he found that the twins were not in the Glamour Hall after they returned home to the Long Family Mansion. Then turning sharply around, he strode outward, as if there was an emergency. Molly was somewhat dazed. She was shocked at the turn of events and didn't know what had happened. Inside her she felt a strange feeling about the atmosphere. On her mind, the scene she had just witnessed earlier kept on resurfacing. In her own point of view, the reason why Eric had gone to the airport was to find Brian, and maybe he had gone for Brian to tell him that something had happened in A City. That thought made her wonder whether the two of them would go back to A City right now. However, on second thought, Moly felt that something was not right. Eric was not the right person to inform Brian of what had happened to A city if indeed something wrong had happened in A City. She was totally confused and was frustrated that she couldn't put her head over the matter. Things just seemed to be so odd around her.

While still thinking about the matter, Molly walked blindly outward to look for her children. She asked a couple of servants she met about the whereabouts of the twins. Soliciting no concrete answers from the servants however, she headed towards the small play area in the west of the Long Family Mansion. To her surprise, however, before she arrived there, she saw a servant running towards the direction of Glamour Hall in panic and flurry.

When the servant saw Molly, alarmed and scared at what happened, she stopped running and said to Molly hastily, "Mrs. Molly Long, Miss Evelyn fell and hurt herself!"

"What!" Molly gasped in frustration. With hundreds of thoughts running on her mind, from Brian to Eric and now to Evelyn, Molly ran to the play area before she was able to clear her mind. Without time to look at her, the servant also went on running in a hurry to the Glamour Hall to take a first-aid case.

"Evelyn, does it hurt?"

With his eyes sympathizing his sister, Charlie asked while squatting in front of Evelyn and blowing towards the wound in her leg. His face was in a frown and was covered with a sense of guilt. Approaching the place, the scene folded in front of Molly's eyes. She couldn't stop the tears from forming in her eyes at the sight of her injured daughter.

"It doesn't hurt... Really!" trying hard to display her courage, Evelyn said to her brother in a naive and sweet voice. She tried her best to pull back the tears from her eyes. Despite her remarkable acting though, she was only a child. Her voice didn't sound emboldened when she told a lie.

Looking down at Evelyn, who tried to be brave and had no intentions of blaming him, Charlie felt even guiltier. He knew very well that he was responsible for her sister's pain. If he had been more careful just now, perhaps Evelyn would not have fallen down from the slide. All he could do now was to comfort her so as to ease the pain a little, but deep inside his innocent eyes were filled with guilt and pity for his sister.

"Mom..." with a helpless angelic voice, Evelyn shouted as soon as Molly came into her sight. In an instant, her eyes became teary, as if tears filled her eyes all at once. She could no longer hold the tears back and the sight of her mother made her totally feeble all of a sudden.

The Long Family had excellent genes. Both Mark and Charlie were very good looking. Despite their young ages now, it could be predicted that both of them would grow into handsome men that would attract a lot of women. However, Evelyn being the only daughter, was different from them. In her case, she seemed to have not inherited the good genes of the Long Family. Sure, she was cute and domineering, but she didn't have the outstanding appearance, the charm, or the charisma that her brothers had. Needless to say, she was not as pretty as Wing, her aunt, also a daughter of the Long Family. Instead, she looked more like Molly, whose looks were only a bit better than average, not superb yet acceptable.

Now that she saw her mother, Evelyn broke down into hysteria and could no longer bear the pain in her legs. When Molly carried her in her arms and sat on the lower part of the slide, intending to examine the wound, Evelyn burst into tears and cried out even louder, as if she had been wronged by the whole world.

Seeing that her daughter was in such pain, Molly's heart was shattered. In her heart, she was crying as she felt sorry for her daughter, but she had to be strong for her. She had to be an example of strength and courage for Evelyn. Pulling all her strength, she said comforting words to Evelyn while carefully dressing her wounds. When the wound was tended, Molly pulled her child close to her heart and embraced her with all the warmth and love she had. Molly felt guilty at the same time for not being there for her children at all times, yet she could do nothing being caught up between circumstances. She held on to Evelyn and cuddled her into sleep, caressing her soft hair she whispered into her ears, "Everything will be alright dear, mommy is here."

Meanwhile, after hearing why Brian was coming to see him, Richie frowned slightly. There was no emotion shown in his experienced eyes. Nobody was able to know what he was thinking. Looking at Brian with his emotionless eyes in a casual manner, he asked plainly, "If you don't settle this problem this time, aren't you afraid that she would chase you to A City?" In fact, neither of them had expected that things would turn out this way. As years passed by, they had even completely forgotten about what had happened between Cora Ke and Brian in XK Intelligence Agency. Everybody who had known about them had thought that what they had was only a joke, like a puppy love among teenagers. Thus now, it all came to them as a surprise that Cora took it so seriously.

"As long as you don't help her," eyeing Richie with an indifferent eye, Brian said with a faint smile at the corners of his mouth. "She can't do anything harm against me."

Hearing his words, Richie lowered his eyes slightly. He knew that Brian still held a grudge against him about the fact that he had sent Molly away when she was pregnant with Mark. He knew he had helped Molly but for Brian, it had resulted in several years of separation between them. Moreover, he had no idea that Molly was already bearing his child. He felt betrayed and humiliated by what Molly and Richie did. With the thoughts of the past in his mind, Richie raised his eyes and said indifferently, "I won't meddle in your affairs, but you'd better not overdo it..." The Ke Family were deeply related to Mr. Xie, the founder of XK Intelligence Agency. Even if Richie would not step in to help Cora, he would not let Brian do anything that might make Mr. Xie think that he was not respected and honored by the father and son of the Long Family.

Of course, Brian knew what Richie was worried about. He was no longer a single man that had only himself to worry about but he was a husband and a father now. When he planned to do anything or make any crucial decision, he didn't only think about himself, he had a wife and three children to consider. "Set your heart at rest. What you're afraid of will never happen," Brian promised. After reassuring Richie, he looked around and tried to find his mother, but Shirley wasn't there for the time being. Thus Brian said with a smile, "Tell Shirley that I'm leaving with Mol."0000000