Love Began with the First Meeting

"I'm sorry, but I need to point out... that Edgar takes my mother as his aunt, so if I call him uncle, that would make it incest, wouldn't it?" Maggie argued. After looking at Tompson, to gauge his reaction, she spun on her heel and marched into the ward without a backward glance. Staring at Maggie's receding figure, the smile slid off from Tompson's face, and his eyes became dark and brooding. Tompson was one of the few people who knew that Maggie was the only child of William, and also one of the fewer people who knew that it was Edgar who had saved her when she had been kidnapped as a child. Whether Maggie was fond of Edgar or if she was just grateful to him for his saving her, Tompson honestly didn't know the truth. Likewise he didn't know why he had never come back for her after he had left the military compound, even though he had been in love with her since childhood. Perhaps... Perhaps it was because of what she had said a long time ago which hurt his feelings? It had hurt him so much that he had made up his mind to stay in S Army for many years, even though deep in his heart he hated it.

However, Maggie seemed to have forgotten everything that had happened in the past, so what was the point for him to struggle with it?

Tompson shook his head, hoping to stop himself from reminiscing.

He returned to the clinic with complex feelings: the excitement at meeting Maggie again and the sadness of knowing she might have fallen in love with someone else.

In Edgar's room, Maggie noticed that the bowl of soup on the table was no longer warm. A hint of sorrow arose spontaneously in her heart. She had asked her mother, Hana, to help her by making soup for Edgar so he could enjoy the taste of a home-cooked dish. Hana woke up early in the morning, right before dawn, just to make the soup. However, he didn't even take a spoonful of the soup. He barely looked at it.

Ignoring Edgar's hard stare, Maggie started to clean up the mess on the table with exaggerated movements. Such behavior didn't match her rank of major at all, instead, it was like a child's behavior. She was clearly in a bad mood!

"Childish!" Edgar commented coldly after glancing at her negligently. He then closed his eyes and kept silent. Edgar had had a long discussion with Claire just now, and he hadn't gotten enough sleep last night because all he could think about was the gunshot. He could sense that something was wrong, yet he just couldn't figure out what it was exactly. But now with Maggie there in an angry fit, Edgar felt surprisingly relaxed, after a while of her muttering flippantly, he got tired and drifted off to sleep.

"Yes, I am childish. I will always be a child to you!" Maggie murmured with an irrational fury, then she threw the rag on a cabinet.

Edgar opened his eyes slowly, then he looked into Maggie's deep ebony eyes and said, "Maggie, are you really in love with me?"

"Yes, I am. I am in love with you!" Maggie responded, gnashing her teeth, "I love you very much, Uncle Three!" She highlighted the word 'uncle' by stressing each syllable on purpose. She muttered, "You laugh at me and treat me like a kid, but what about you? Why do you think that the world revolves around you? You're such a narcissistic old man."

Rolling her eyes, she turned to Edgar and said, "Captain, you are a patient and you haven't had any rest all morning, so just get some rest now. I will be waiting outside. Just call me if you need anything..."

Edgar didn't care much about what she had said under her breath, even though she had insulted him by saying that he was old. However, he frowned when he heard that she was going to be remaining here, and he asked, "Don't you need to go back to the Eagle?" Maggie answered with an obvious fake smile on her face, "The senior military officer asked me to take care of you."

Edgar frowned again but didn't say anything else. He watched Maggie walk out of the ward, and couldn't help frowning even deeper. 'What is William up to now? Does he plan to pair up Maggie and me? Even though I'm a bachelor, I'm not a young man anymore. Maggie is still just a kid. How can I date her? That's absolute nonsense!' Edgar wondered, deeply puzzled.

Deep in his heart, even though Maggie was 25 years old now, which was a prefect age to get married, he could never forget that moment in which he held her in his arms when she was still a child.

Looking around, Edgar picked up a telephone receiver which was only connected to internal military phone numbers and then dialed William's phone number. Edgar waited for a long time, but no one answered the phone, and he then hung up irritably. The second time when he called again, someone answered at last.

"Hello, who is it?" It was William on the other end of the line.

"Sir, it's me, Edgar," Edgar said calmly. "I strongly request that Maggie returns back to the Eagle." "No, sir, please listen to me first. There are many doctors, nurses and medical staff on duty. I don't need..." "Sir, there is no need for Maggie to stay here to look after me. Sir? Sir? Sir..."

Edgar sighed helplessly when he realized that William had hung up the phone. What the hell was going on?

Edgar put the receiver back. He had felt exhausted before making the phone call, but now he couldn't fall asleep at all. After thinking for a while, Edgar finally concluded that Maggie's feelings for him were based on gratitude and admiration from her childhood. Morever, after what happened between them the other day must have deepened her feelings for him.

Thinking of this, Edgar believed that it would be necessary to strangle her feelings before they intensified even more. It didn't matter whether he had feelings for her or not. Twelve years was a considerable age gap between them. Just like what Maggie had said, he could be her uncle, considering their age. Some would say that three years was already a big gap, and so twelve years could be considerate an enormous gap for them! They would never be on the same wavelength. Heck, they weren't even in the same generation! 0000