Love Began with the First Meeting

"What? Did you mean that you don't want me to keep you company?"
Brian's ghostly voice whispered in Molly's ears. Her heart trembled. She scolded herself in her mind that she had forgotten to
obey him, so she immediately corrected her words and explained,"I didn't mean that. I don't like having meals alone, so if you
can keep me company, of course that would be great... But... I was just afraid of disturbing your work."
Brian couldn't help but grin devilishly after hearing her explanation. He asked,"Really?"
"Yes, yes! Of course!" Molly nodded her head heavily in order for him to believe her. But then she realized that she had reacted
too fast and too dramatic that it sounded like a lie. Molly grinned with embarrassment and looked at Brian with her pure eyes.
She awkwardly added some more words to explain,"Lisa said that you were always so busy that sometimes you barely have
time to eat anything. If we can have meals together, you might be able to have your meals on time, too."
Molly's face flushed red after finishing her words. Her face had already reddened because of the cold wind. Now, it went even
redder because of embarrassment. She bit her lower lip and lowered her eyelids. Uneasily moving her red and freezing hands,
Molly was scolding herself in her mind for saying those words to Brian.
Looking at how awkward Molly felt while speaking to him, Brian's eyes glimmered with pleasure. Although he knew that she had
said these words out of fear, Brian still felt much happier.
Brian lowered his eyes and noticed that Molly's hands had already turned red because of playing with the snow. A hint of anger
flashed across his face as he scolded her,"Are you a fool? Why didn't you wear gloves when you made the snowman?"
Though he looked angry while he spoke, Brian gently reached out to Molly, and then wrapped her cold hands with his big palms
to give her warmth.
Molly was surprised by what he did. She raised her head and noticed that his bushy eyebrows were furrowing out of worry. His
sudden tenderness shocked her so much that Molly didn't know how to react.
At that moment, that certain amusing thought came to her mind once again. Molly found it hard to believe that this kind and
compassionate man who was giving her warmth was the same cruel and ruthless man she knew. She wondered whether it was
true that he had a split personality.
"What? You're thinking that I have a split personality again, right?" Although he was asking a question, the tone of his voice was
actually confirmative. Molly looked at him with embarrassment. He was able to read her mind again. Brian put on a slight smile
and said gently,"You're my woman, of course... I should treat you well!"

The snowflakes gently fell on their hair and shoulders. Brian's tender and attractive voice came into Molly's ears, and touched
her heart. She even forgot about how cruel this man was.
Molly slightly blinked her eyes. She kept her eyes on Brian, without trying to pull her hands back from his big palms. She felt the
warmth coming from his hands, through her own ones, and all the way to her heart.
"A man helps a woman warm up her hands on a winter night... Do you know what it means? It's a very ambiguous and spoiled
behavior," Molly blurted out the words with a dash of affection flickering in her eyes. But when she realized what she had said,
she felt embarrassed once again and immediately explained,"I... What I meant is... We are not that close to each other, so..."
Molly said and slowly pulled her hands back from Brian's palms.
At first, when Brian heard her speak, he had felt delighted and grinned even more widely like a child. But then, his smile instantly
faded away from his face as he heard what she said next. He gripped her hands even tighter, stopping her from drawing them
back, and said,"We've already done the most intimate thing. How could you say that we aren't close to each other?"
Instantly, Molly's face blushed bright red. She bit her lower lip, frowned, and said,"That's not what I meant..."
"So what did you mean?" Brian replied immediately.
"I..." Molly paused, and then all of a sudden, in an angry tone said,"I didn't mean anything. Forget it!"
She turned her face away to one side, and cursed Brian in her mind. Then, she asked,"So are we going to keep standing here?"
Brian looked at her capricious and expressive face. His black eyes gleamed with a light delight. In fact, he didn't have the ability
to read her mind, nor did he have any technique to do it. He was just able to guess it based on her obvious facial expressions.
How could he not know when her emotions were so transparent on her face?
"You haven't finished making the snowman yet, have you?" asked Brian.
"What?" Molly asked. She turned her head back to look at Brian with confusion outlined all over her face.
Brian threw a glance at the snowman and then let go of Molly, who was in a daze. At that moment, Tony walked up to them and
said,"Mr. Long! Here you are!"
Brian took the things from Tony's hands which were two black things that looked like a pair of eyes, and a carrot with one end cut
sharp. Then, he pressed the two black round things on the snowman's face, and then stuck the carrot into it as a nose. While he

carefully adjusted the angle of the carrot with his long and slim fingers, he said slowly,"Your smile just now was very beautiful.
Smile more from now on."
Still in a daze, Molly was totally engrossed on Brian's fingers on the snowman and was deaf to his words. In her mind, she
pictured the scene that they were making a snowman together.
She wondered what an interesting scene it would be to see a cold and ruthless man rolling a snowball, patting the snow, and
then...
Molly couldn't help but start to grin at the thought. Following her imagination of the scene, a bigger and bigger smile drew across
her face until her eyes were laughing to a line.
Right at that moment, Brian stood up and saw the smile on her face. When he looked deeply into her pure and smiling eyes, his
heart was suddenly stirred. Right then, unconsciously, he pulled Molly into his arms and kissed her cold and red lips.