Love Began with the First Meeting

"You didn't marry her though." Maggie rolled her eyes, despising his explanation. "I think you just can't forget his wife. That's why you are still single after so many years."

Edgar sighed and shook his head. Finding it hard to communicate with a young girl about such a topic, he stopped talking about it. "Go to sleep now. Tomorrow morning, we will check out the landscape at 04:00." Then he focused on piecing the devices together again. Maggie rolled her eyes before she retired to the bedroom. After taking a shower, she crawled into the king-size bed. But after she closed her eyes, she simply couldn't fall asleep.

Lying on her bed, she could still hear the sounds of metal pieces brushing together from the other room. She checked her watch, which showed 01:00. There were only three hours left before the start of the mission. Only the two of them were on this mission. They had to enter their enemy's base of operations in secret and retrieve the data stolen from them. It was not going to be an easy task.

Their enemy was also in the intelligence business. Of course, they would have specialists to protect their base from any external threat. She wasn't really scared, but she did have one thing that she wanted to do before anything happened to her during the mission. She wanted to confess to Edgar. It would be so unfortunate if she were to die without telling him of her true feelings for him.

When these thoughts crossed her mind, she gradually became drowsy and finally fell asleep. When it was 03:30, she suddenly woke up. She checked the time again, and listened intently but there were no more sounds coming from the other room.

Then she got up and washed her face. After putting on the thin bullet-proof vest, a light-colored T-shirt and a pair of jeans, she entered the other room. Edgar had also changed into the proper clothes and was sleeping on the couch. Although the couch was wide and long, it was still too small for Edgar, who was taller than the couch. His booted feet hung off the lower end of the sofa.

The carpet was thick. Plus, Maggie intentionally walked slowly and quietly towards him so as not to wake him. After she drew close, she squatted down and wrapped her arms around her knees, looking up at him. 'Why did he do such a thing to that woman in the KTV on that day?' she wondered in confusion.

Pouting, she sighed and gazed at him while she studied his face. This was a face which she knew so well. She could trace every line on it through her memories, but still... Sorrow slowly crept into her heart and she looked away. If it weren't for that indecent incident, she wouldn't feel this uneasy.

"Are you afraid for your first mission?"

"I'm okay," Maggie answered out of natural reflex. Blurting out her answer, she turned her head back to him. Since Edgar had leaned forward to talk to her, their lips met by accident.

He actually hadn't been asleep. He was resting for a moment. After he had finished manipulating the devices, scanned through all the information he had, and memorized the map of the factory where their opponent's base was situated, it was already 03:00. Though his eyes had been closed, he had heard the sound of Maggie walking up to him. He just wanted to see what she would do.

It was her first mission. Moreover, it was a dangerous mission, so he had thought that she would be nervous. But when he looked at her, he had found that she didn't look like she was nervous, but rather that she was bothered by something. "Hmm... Edgar..." she started.

"Maggie, you..." He was at a loss for words as well.

Maggie coudn't understand why the same incident just happened to her again! 'Edgar, why did you suddenly wake up? Didn't you feel me looking at you intently earlier?' she bemoaned her situation in her heart. It just wasn't fair.

The first time it had happened, it had been an accident. Now that it had just occurred again, it was still an accident. But Edgar suddenly found that something had crept into his heart during these accidents. The girl's mild, milk-like scent started to claw at his heart, stimulating his desire to engulf her alive.

'When was the last time I had such a desire? Is it because I have been alone for too long?' he asked himself, puzzled by the sudden urge to lose control.

To suppress his abrupt surge of desire, he retreated to the other side of the couch. Mustering his calmness, he said, "Let's get ready to leave in ten minutes."

After that, he went to the bathroom to wash his face in cold water and loaded their backpacks with the devices which he had been working on for the entire night. When they put their backpacks on, they looked like ordinary hikers.

"Hmm..." On their way, Maggie realized that the atmosphere between them had grown quite tense so she tried to break the awkward silence. "With our current speed, are you sure that we can make it there before dawn?"

Edgar glanced sidelong at Maggie but didn't reply.

Maggie pouted, feeling even more embarrassed now. She couldn't help muttering under her breath, "It wasn't my fault. I didn't cause the accident. Why are you putting on a poker face? Besides, I was the victim, not you! I was accidentally kissed by you, twice! You are an old man, yet I didn't complain. Why do you seem so disgruntled?"

Abruptly, Edgar stopped walking and spun around to look at Maggie. His fierce eyes seemed to shine with a light which invaded and penetrated her soul.

Maggie, too, stopped and fixed her eyes on him. Looking around, she asked, "Yes? Is something wrong?"

She kept her voice low and waited for his reply.

Strangely, she started to feel nervous as he simply stared at her wthout uttering a word.