Love Began with the First Meeting

Brian grinned wickedly as he enjoyed watching Molly trying to put a restraint on her anger. He said in a brash tone,"To never let you be free. That is what I want."

Molly was desperate and defeated by his extremely cruel and scornful words. Her eyes were filled with tears again, which she stubbornly tried to hold back. She bit her quivering lips and glared at Brian wishing she could just kill him and get it over with.

Steven's heart hurt as he watched his daughter suffer under Brian's tyranny. He felt guilty, and there was a deep sense of helplessness in him, as if he was trying to say that whatever had happened was unavoidable and it had happened against his will.

The VIP room was in a deadly silence; nobody dared to speak a word, and their breathing went quiet too. Everybody looked at Brian and Molly and wondered what was going on between them, but they had no way to find it out.

Shirley was anxious to help Molly, but she knew that even if she did step in and help her now, she was not always going to be able to help them, because love is the most complex emotion in the world. It was the same when she had knelt down to Richie and got to know who Wing was. She could have never imagined at the time that she would marry him one day and would end up loving him so much.

"Brian..." Shirley sighed, looking at him. It was as if she was looking at a young Richie. Brian was even more hardhearted and more possessive than Richie was at that time.

"Shirley, the casino has its own rules," Brian said gently to Shirley. Even though he was the boss, that did not mean that he could destroy the rules which every casino in the world followed.

Shirley turned towards Molly. She pulled Molly towards her and moved a few steps away from the table. She said,"Let's just wait until they finish the game."

eyes glistened with tears, together with an obvious look of anger and helplessness. She could do nothing but swallow her

confirmed his suspicion of who Shirley was. The lady was certainly very familiar with Brian. And as

still looking very angrily at him. He grinned with an elusive and evil look, which passed on a clear message to

proceeded under Jason's order. It was only then that Molly saw the person gambling against Steven. When she saw the person's calm and collected face,

from his eyes. He had not paid too much attention to Molly or Shirley since they had barged in. He was the most famous croupier in the world, but very few people knew

as Twenty-one(21), was

is allowed to interrupt unless there is an emergency," Jason's calm voice came through to her. He ran his eyes across the people in the room and then nodded to the dealer, asking

side. Even with the minimal face value, so many

She lightly tapped on Molly's hand and said,"Don't worry.

owe it to Aunt Shirley. At least Shirley would never force her to do anything she did not want to. But would Brian allow Aunt Shirley to help her?

herself. It was more than evident that everything that was happening now was no more than a punishment Brian was imposing on her. He was taking drastic actions to tell her that she could never escape from him unless he let her go by

she did not want to lose hope. Just as Aunt Shirley had said, as long as she moved forward, perhaps there would be a different view waiting

as the dealer, while Steven

table, which was a King, and the other card face down, which he himself did not see. Thus, of course,