Love Began with the First Meeting

"Wow, who's that woman?"

someone's voice suddenly asked. Ximena body's stiffened at the sound. But the embarrassed look on her face was gone as soon as it came. She went back to picking food from the buffet as if nothing had happened.

"Wow, wow..." A woman cast a look at Molly and moved her mouth to the direction of Ximena. "A sparrow will never become a phoenix. Well, someone must have felt happy for having caught herself a rich man in exchange for her body."

The group of women that she was with started giggling when she finished talking. Their laughter was that of mockery.

Molly frowned. She looked at the group of women, and then at Ximena, who was standing casually by her side and was picking a piece of mousse cake into her plate. She was acting like she didn't hear anything.

Molly admired her for her composure and courage. Stay calm in the middle of a storm! That is not easy at all! How do we take cruel words with just a grain of salt? Ximena definitely knew how. Molly turned to look at the women again. They were enraged by the fact that Ximena was just ignoring them. Their face twisted into a grimace.

"Ximena, what a bitch!" One woman sneered, "What does it feel like to be a snake stealing Aaron from Vivi? It must be nice to be the other woman, huh!"

him and that's that..." Her voice was soft and weak as if that was all she could muster out. Her eyes were welling up with tears. It was obvious that she was the one that got hurt the most in

here and here they were talking so cruelly about her. Ximena, however, graceful as ever, remained calm. She wasn't looking directly at them but she

happening, Molly knew to suspend her judgment until further notice. But for some reason, she didn't believe a word those women said about Ximena. Even if Ximena had been the other woman - for sure that wasn't the only side of the story. Her relationship with Brian was complicated. Ximena might have her reason

to think of her. For some reason, Vivi

enough!" Molly finally cried, "You're in public. Please be careful of the words that you choose to say. This isn't

up and down. Then she continued before Molly could answer, "Well, I guess it's true, birds of the same feather do really flock together. She got herself another sparrow

feeling both ashamed and enraged suddenly that she lost her

women, speaking up for the first time, "I seduced Aaron because I could do it. I'm his type. If I lost my lover to anyone else, I'd never show myself to the winner because I would be

"You..."

trying. Ximena was staring directly at Vivi's tear-stained face and said coldly, "Vivi, stop crying. It gets you nowhere. Stop continuously proving to me that you are really weak. I bet you do this everyday. Aren't you tired of it yet? It's becoming part of you!

she stopped before her hand could

cocktail party and, as the hostess, she was brave to do such a controversial thing while some other women would have just ignored them. Ximena wasn't one to back down. It might have been rash, but she was doing it to protect herself which Molly highly