Love Began with the First Meeting

Getting his point, Richie nodded. He knew that his previous plan that Evelyn and Charlie could stay together with Shirley for a few more days would not be carried out because of Cora's sudden visit.

It was not until Brian returned to Glamour Hall that he got to know Evelyn had been injured. She had been crying in a pitiful manner in front of her mother, as the pain was incessant and could not make her stay asleep. As soon as she saw her father, she began crying even harder.

Intending to teach her a lesson, Brian didn't try to console her. Instead, he just let his daughter cry. As a child of the Long Family, if she behaved like that every time she was injured, how could she protect herself in the future?

Cuddling Evelyn to silence, Molly was now quite used to Brian's attitude for such acts of discipline, and she agreed with him. Therefore, after managing her to stop crying, she stopped showing her attention to Evelyn's tantrums. She thought that not having someone to comfort her would make the child stronger. She realized that what Brian had said to her made sense. Although she felt sorry for her daughter, she knew that the children had to learn how to be independent and responsible for their actions.

"Mommy, I heard from a servant that..." curiously, Mark asked while coming into the room from outside, "you and Papa Brian are leaving. Is that true?"

Hearing his question, Molly nodded to affirm.

Seeing that Evelyn was crying sadly and her legs were neatly covered in gauze, Mark walked to her and gave her a hug. He rubbed her back soothingly and wiped her face dry. Sensing that there was someone who cared for her, the little girl gradually stopped crying. Her cries turned into sobs. While hushing his younger sister, Mark asked, "Do you have to leave so suddenly?" He was reluctant to part with his family again so soon and was saddened at the thought of them leaving so soon. All this time, he was expecting that they would stay a little longer.

Shrugging, Molly answered, "I don't know. Maybe your Papa Brian has something to deal with."

"Oh!" realizing the urgency of his father's work, Mark answered and he didn't go on asking questions. Because of the speech disorder, he had suffered from as a baby, Mark had been obedient and considerate in order to make his mother less sad. Later he had decided to return to Dragon Island as a candidate for the power holder for the sake of Brian and Molly. After being trained for a few years, he had become more sensible and learned to hide what he was actually thinking about. This made him wiser and more rational towards his decisions.

Sensing his son's grief, Molly half squatted in front of Mark and held his cheek between her fingers. In a somewhat heavy tone, she said, "Mark, mommy will never leave you." Seeing that Mark turned his eyes to look at her, she continued with a smile, "No matter what status you are going to have, you will always be an irreplaceable little baby boy in mommy's heart. Do you understand?"

"I know that," Mark answered with a nod. After pressing his lips and hesitating for a while, finally, he pushed his face towards Molly's and gave her a kiss on the cheek. "Mark won't let mommy, daddy and Papa Brian down."

At the sound of his son's promise, Molly felt that the happiest thing she had experienced in her life was that she had met Brian, who brought her three wonderful children. Her happiness was so genuine at the moment that she couldn't ask for more. With her family, she felt her life had no regrets.

Evelyn's eyes were still red. As a small child, she didn't understand what her mother and her eldest brother were talking about. However, her lips twitched, as if she was moved by something between them.

Being the more sensible one, Charlie walked to his mother and his elder brother, encircling their necks with his little arms. In an apparently superior tone, he said, "Brother Mark, you can set your heart at rest because I will take good care of mom and Evelyn." It was really funny to hear such manly remarks from a small child.

However, Molly wasn't moved at all. Instead, she showed the whites of her eyes helplessly. 'I will thank you very much if you don't annoy me together with Evelyn any longer,' she thought.

Despite their unwillingness to leave Mark, Brian and Molly took the twins away from the Long Family Mansion after Brian said a few words to Mark. They left quietly without being noticed by anybody else. The car they were in brushed against the car Eric used to pick up Cora, and neither Eric nor Cora noticed them as they left the mansion.

It was already midnight when the airplane arrived at the airport in A City. It was still cold in an early spring night in A City. The couple took the twins to get off the airplane. As a gust of wind blew, Molly could not help shuddering. In an instant, a warm suit jacket with the light smell of seawater was covered over her shoulder.

Surprised, Molly turned her head to have a look, seeing that Brian carried Evelyn in one of his arms nimbly while holding Molly's shoulder in his other arm in a natural manner, together they walked out of the airport. He did everything naturally enough to make Molly feel happy now and then. In her opinion, he was not romantic, but he was thoughtful. Despite being together for many years, he had never failed to surprise Molly with his unpredictable behavior from time to time. And that was what Molly loved about him, his thoughtfulness, his un-predictableness, and everything about him.

Following them, Charlie walked along slowly. His little figure looked a bit lonesome in the dim light of night, but there was not the least pitiful expression on his face at all. On the contrary, in his eyes, which were just like colored glazes, there was something that was not supposed to appear in the eyes of a three-year-old child.

Tony drove them back to the villa by the lakeside. As soon as the car stopped, Brian's cellphone rang. Picking up the phone he accepted the call without saying a word. He only listened to the voice coming through from the other side of the phone silently. All of a sudden, his face became darker than the black sky without a star, giving out the sign of a coming storm.

Noticing the change of expression on his face, Molly looked at him in curiosity, wondering what he had heard. Evelyn had fallen asleep in her arms on their way back. Seeing that Brian hung up the phone hurriedly, she didn't say a word but asked him with her eyes. Looking at her quizzical look, Brian didn't say a word either. He opened the car door, covered Evelyn with a blanket, and took her over from Molly's arms and out of the car. It was not until he placed his daughter properly in her bed that he said to Molly in a low voice, "I'm going to Grand Night Casino. You go to bed first and don't wait for me. Okay?"

Sensing something odd, Molly knew that it was not the right time to ask questions to answer the great confusion in her mind, so she only nodded and said, "Okay!"

With one of his hands covering the back side of Molly's head, Brian gave her a soft kiss on her forehead. He closed his eyes to feel the warm air around her body quietly. At the moment, he knew clearly that this woman would never leave him in her lifetime, and that he would never leave her either.