Love Began with the First Meeting

The man in the wheelchair looked away and no one knew what he actually saw. He knew that he should leave, but it was too hard for him to refuse that voice. "James..." Ximena called his name again.

Her lips were quivering and her eyes were moist. She had never known that the man she fell in love with had such high status in QY Island. She never expected that he was so famous and prominent. If she had known the truth, she would have tried her best not to love him. Maybe she would not have led such a miserable life these past five years.

"I am sorry," the gentle voice came from the man in the wheelchair. His eyes showed nothing but guilt and no trace of love nor even a tinge of passion could be sensed from him. With a hoarse voice, he continued slowly, "I cannot fulfill my commitment for you. Please forget about me." Holding bitter tears, he paused for a little while then added, "If you cannot forget me, please hate me. I am no longer the man you loved before."

After he finished talking, the man left quietly in his wheelchair. Ximena was left aghast following him with her gaze full of resentment.

Slowly, she could feel the tears brimming in her eyes, Ximena gazed at the man in the wheelchair and did nothing till he disappeared in the darkness of the night. Tears came from Ximena's eyes slowly, ran down her cheeks and fall into her thin lips. She didn't bother to wipe them dry. She wanted them to flow out of her eyes so as to ease the pain she felt inside. The tears tasted bitter in her mouth while she kept on staring at the direction of the wheelchair that disappeared in the dark. Letting out a deep sigh, finally, she exclaimed, "James, I hate you! I hate you! Ahhh! I hate everything about you!"

Ximena cried loudly, with her tears storming down her cheeks. She cried regardless of anything else as if she wanted to drown out all the sufferings she had for so many years.

Whilst, on the other hand, silently sitting in a far corner, Aaron looked at Ximena crying with a cold expression in his eyes. He did nothing but take out and lit a cigarette. Smoke was puffing out of his mouth while he stared at her. He seemed to enjoy seeing her in such a tragic state.

Drown in her own misery, Ximena cried and cried. She had forgotten about Aaron who was with her and just looked at the direction where James disappeared. Through her blurry eyes, she hoped that the wheelchair would come to her again and console her out of despair. She lingered and waited, but no James came back to her, not even his shadows.

On the other end, the man in the wheelchair sat in a corner where Ximena couldn't see him. Hearing Ximena's wails, an expression of sadness found its way to his face. Despite the torment, James just looked towards the exit without paying any attention to anything else. "If you love her so much, why do you let Aaron do that to her?" The voice was calm beside him, then came a pair of shoes, together with long legs. "You would rather be so grieved and let her be hurt by Aaron?"

"Brother Gale. I'm doing it all for her," James forced himself to laugh in a self-deprecating way. But the laugh turned into a hard frown as his mind reminded him of the hurt thinking about how the woman he loved shed tears for him. "I will do her more harm if I still insist being together with her," he added after an awkward pause.

Feeling sorry for James, Gale sighed heavily while looking at the miserable man in the wheelchair and retorted, "But she is not happy at all together with Aaron."

"She will be better with him. After all, I am already disabled. Don't you think so?" James lowered his gaze and examined his legs before asking painfully.

Faced with the truth and left with nothing to say, Gale sighed again and raised his eyes.

At the end of the corridor, Aaron dragged Ximena away rudely, without any tenderness. Witnessing the scene, James said again slowly, "Aaron is starting his move now."

The man in the wheelchair closed his eyes and tried to calm his mood down, "We should cherish a great rival. It will be even more precious than a good friend sometimes." Hearing what he said, Gale curled his lips and replied, "When Aaron finds that getting rid of the Leng's Corporations is way too easy, will he be so ashamed that he will get rid of us both?"

"Maybe he will," James raised his head and looked at his brother, the current executive president of the Leng's Corporations. "I am worried about you now," he continued while staring at him with sympathetic eyes. However, he managed to give him a weird smile to get away the threats of trouble on his face. Seeing the sudden change of his expression, Gale's face turned stiff suddenly. With the "watching the drama" expression on his brother's face vanished, the man in the wheelchair spoke slowly again, "Aaron is never a kind person." Realizing that the man in the wheelchair was now leaving, Gale said through his gritted teeth, "You are really a cold and cruel man!"

"Gale, if we are not, we will not give him the Leng's Corporations," he shouted back with his voice heard before the farther place. "If father knew how we three brothers treat each other, do you think he will be furious and have a heart attack?"

"Actually I am worried about mother more..." Gale murmured. After he gave another look at the man in the wheelchair, Gale turned to the crowd and headed towards the party.

Since the most important person at the party showed up, the party started formally. As usual, the people in the party were tediously communicated with each other with fake smiles on their faces. The only thing that was unusual tonight was that James Leng attended the party.

Some reporters were allowed to interview James. They were busy taking notes while taking pictures with their phones and cameras. Everyone tried to make an exclusive interview with him.

Overlooking the commotion was Aaron who sat in the resting area, with a glass of red wine in his hand. Ximena was just beside him with red eyes. Both of them seemed not to see what was happening at the party, as if they were totally not there at all. More than one person wanted to chat with Aaron, but no one did so because of the weird atmosphere between Aaron and Ximena.

Roaming his eyes around the hall, Ken turned himself and looked at the two of them in the resting area, with his eyebrows frowned. He knew that there must be something happening, but he did not dare to ask what it was.

It was minutes after the party started, but Aaron was eager to leave together with Ximena. Although James was the main role of the party today, Aaron also had a high status as important as James, so his leaving was noticed by many people. "What's the purpose of Aaron leaving so early tonight?"

"Didn't you notice it? Mr. Aldrich Leng and His Highness Mr. Aaron Leng, confronted each other. They seemed to have a problem with each other."

"Do you think the Leng Family offended his highness or not?"

"Impossible! Even though his highness is very powerful in secret, but the Leng Family cannot be offended easily. And there are also several great people supporting the Leng Family. The two sides will not conflict severely..."

Ximena heard some conversations from the crowd. She turned her head and determined to see who started the gossip, but she was not sure who it was. However, Aaron just walked to the exit without paying any attention to anything else.

Moments later, after they walked out of the hall, Ximena looked around. Even though she was deeply hurt, she was still hoping to see James again. There were lots of questions on her mind, and she wanted to ask James why he was in a wheelchair. Did the reason for leaving her had something to do with his legs? Was it because his legs were broken and he was disabled that he did not want to be together with her?

"Ahhh!" Ximena exclaimed as she suddenly felt hurt from her head because of overthinking.

While she was standing there weak in her knees, she tried to put her hands on her head to stop the throbbing pain.

"I hope this is the last time!" Aaron's voice was even colder than the winter wind. "I don't want my goods to think about another man when they stay around me."

The silence was all that Ximena could reply; she was too hurt to speak. She was left with no choice but to frown tightly. With the pain slowly ebbing away, she felt her body was moving, walking away from the dreaded place. She was actually held by Aaron and was dumped into the car!

"I am a decent living person! You can regard me as one of your goods, but I have my own thought!" Ximena yelled through clenched teeth She waited for five years and suddenly found herself abandoned without any reason, and she even did not have the chance to ask him why. What happened just now at the party drove her crazy and she could not stop herself from crying out.

"The first warning, and it should be the last one!" Aaron's voice was even colder, "I don't want to see my goods express itself! From the moment I rescued you, you should have no opinions of your own. You are to follow what I say!"

"I...but Ahhh!" Just as she was about to speak out one word, Ximena was pressed forcibly to the seat of the car. Her throat was tightly clenched by Aaron so that she could not talk anymore.

With dark, sinister eyes, Aaron looked down at her while she tried hard to push him aside. Aaron asked her sarcastically," So are you ready to die any time? After meeting James, you want to guard your cunt now?"

Pulling all her strength, Ximena stared at Aaron and replied to him slowly, "Your Highness, what kind of answer do you want to hear, then?" She was so deeply grieved and raged. Despair and vulnerability were betrayed in her eyes. "Whatever my answer is, yes or no, You still don't care. I can't run away from your power, right?"

What he heard pleased him, so Aaron curled his lips slightly. The smile was so cold as to freeze the air inside the car into ice.

Then suddenly, out of nowhere, Ken pulled down the partition and space inside the car was cut into the front part and the back part. Giving Aaron and Ximena a private space at the back seat while Ken could drive uninterrupted. Then Ken heard the sound of clothes being torn up. At the backseat, what Ken could not see was Ximena's dress was torn into halves.

Shivering in the bitter cold, Ximena was left naked under the gaze of a sinister man. She sobbed bitter tears not knowing whether the tears were for James or for herself. 000000000000