Love Began with the First Meeting

"My thing?" Edgar asked in a very low voice. Maggie could almost taste the alcohol which stained his lips; it made her heart speed up spontaneously.

Maggie couldn't help blushing. She didn't know how to face this situation of being so overpowered. Although she obviously knew that the men in the army were all desperate for sex, as they didn't have many chances for that, she was still surprised to discover that Edgar

was one of them.

"You rogue!" pouting her lips, Maggie scolded gently. "Let me go! You should go take a shower. You reek of alcohol!"

Edgar sighed helplessly. He moved away from her, without saying anything. He then looked at her with a gloomy expression. Noticing that Maggie didn't plan to say anything, he had no choice but to move through to the bathroom for a cold shower to cool himself down. Tonight was their newlywed night, so Edgar didn't plan to have sex with her in such a rushed way.

However, when he walked out of the bathroom after taking a quick shower, he noticed that Maggie had left the house. He called her, yet it was Hana who answered the phone.

"Edgar, have you guys got back home yet?" Hana asked.

"Yes, we are back," Edgar replied in a very natural tone. Before he could ask anything, the mother complained over the line, "That silly Maggie, she always forgets stuff. She left her phone here again. I will ask Max to give her the phone tomorrow."

"Thanks Hana. I just called to check whether she had left her phone at home," Edgar lied, hiding the intention for the call from her. "Good to hear that her phone isn't lost." After chatting with Hana for a few seconds, he hung up. Edgar then went out onto the balcony. He stood there and looked up at the sky. There were no stars but a crescent moon hanging in the sky. He suddenly felt so upset, thinking that his wife had gone to visit another man on their wedding night.

What a poor man...

With a heavy heart, Maggie left her house and drove all the way to Seductive Bar. She felt strange that Tompson would have left her a note, and she felt even stranger when she saw the address on the note. She thought it was quite weird to meet him at such a place. Speaking of Seductive Bar, there was a story that had once happened there. It had witnessed the change of their relationship. There were four people involved in this story: Tompson, Maggie, a boy called Raymond, and a girl called Susie. At that time, Edgar was the most important person in her whole life for Maggie, so she didn't realize the change of their relationship at the very beginning. When she finally realized that things had changed, it was already too late.

Back then, Susie was in love with Tompson, while he was in love with Maggie. At least, that was what other people said. Whether that was true or not, no one knew but Tompson himself. After all, as far as Maggie was concerned, they were like childhood enemies to each other; it was, indeed, quite awkward to hear that Tompson was actually in love with her.

As for the boy Raymond, he was obsessed with Susie. The love quadrangle involving these four people was unbelievable in its complexity. At last, Maggie became the person targeted in this relationship. As for what happened later, she was not around to find out. All that she knew was that Susie and Raymond left for their studies abroad, and Tompson soon left thereafter.

She didn't take this story seriously, as she was afraid that the truth would change everything. Besides, the episode had come to an end, and it was easier to just forget about it all.

What was more, Maggie had accidentally found out that Seductive Bar was the place where they had sorted things out. As for how they had handled this problem, she didn't have a clue. Coincidentally, while Maggie was washing the dishes with Hana tonight, Hana mentioned about the Lin family to her after receiving a phone call. She told Maggie about everything that had happened in Seductive Bar then.

That was how Maggie finally found out about the whole story. The reason that Tompson had decided to leave that year was because of a deal with the two. He had left in exchange for their leaving. Since the agreement had been reached, things were sorted out in a peaceful way. After all, they were all living in the same compound, so even small things would be known by all.

Hana didn't mention many details, and Maggie didn't ask either. Even though she knew the whole story, Hana could be told of what had happened by others. Whether it was one hundred percent correct, no one would ever know. Only Tompson knew the whole truth. However, what Hana had said to her tonight made her finally understand why she could always just get a sense of helplessness from Hana every time when she was with Edgar.

The car stopped at the bar door. Maggie didn't rush to get out, instead she lingered in the car. Looking at the colorful neon lights and hearing the noise from inside, she felt downtrodden. She could almost understand everything now, after she had linked every single detail in the story together.

That was why she had decided to come here right after she saw the message 'Please come and meet me in Seductive Bar, if you have time'-and a phone number written beneath on the note. Feeling a sense of urgency, she had left Edgar there in the bathroom. Maggie finally got out of the car. She was hesitant to enter the bar, as there were so many memories there. 'How ridiculous I am to abandon my husband on our wedding night and instead come to meet another man in secret,' she thought as a confusion of memories and feelings cascaded in her mind.

She sighed slightly and finally pushed the door open. Suddenly, the strong smell of alcohol and the fragrance of people invaded her nose. She was not supposed to come to this kind of bar, considering her identity. However, she was already standing inside the dimly lit bar. 000000