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!"

lost him and that's that..." Her voice was soft and weak as if that was all she could muster out.

just started talking badly of Ximena and Aaron. Ximena was just right 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

grip to the food tongs in her hand. As someone who knew nothing about what was 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

might have been what she really wanted the people to think of her. For some reason, Vivi reminded Molly of Becky who hid under the pretension of

of the words that

small girl in a white dress said as she measured Molly up and down. Then she continued before Molly could answer, "Well, I guess it's true, birds of the same feather do really

words stung Molly. She was feeling both ashamed and enraged suddenly

Suddenly, Ximena turned to face all the 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 ashamed so. It's pretty bold of you to show up here. Because it's such a

"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! Haven't you figured it out yet? No one's buying your innocent act. I wonder where you got that. Your

furiously. She raised her hand as if she was going to slap Ximena on the face. But she stopped before her hand could even get near Ximena's face. All of a sudden, she couldn't see anything anymore and her

face smothered with colorful cake icing. It was definitely a hilarious scene, especially at a cocktail party such as this. She felt nothing but admiration for Ximena's courage. After all, this was Aaron's 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