Love Began with the First Meeting

She pressed her lips, swallowed one big gulp, and took a deep breath again. She told herself that three days was enough to mope around - it had to end now. Mark was trying his best to be strong while fighting against the disease so she should be doing the same.

She took one last deep breath, stood up, and then headed to the bathroom.

At that moment, the door of the villa flew open. Brian walked inside, hands shoved in his pants, followed by Tony.

"Mr. Brian!" Lisa greeted. She was just finishing up with cleaning the kitchen. "Should I cook dinner for you?" she asked.

Brian stopped in his tracks and lifted his head as if he was looking upstairs. Lisa followed his gaze and said, "Mrs. Molly Long hasn't had dinner. She's actually lost a lot of weight over the past few days." She said this in an attempt to make Brian sympathize with Molly seeing that he was already peeved.

A trace of pity flashed across his eyes but Brian said coldly, "She won't starve to death by missing one or two meals. She isn't stupid. Does she have to be dragged out just so she would put something in her mouth?" Without missing a beat, Brian headed directly upstairs.

"So..."

"You can rest now," Brian interrupted Lisa. After taking only a few steps, he stopped and turned his head slightly, "Doesn't Lucy's art exhibition open tomorrow?"

with a smile, "Yes, it does. Tomorrow at Central Gallery." She didn't agree with what Lucy was planning but she was her daughter after all and this would be her first large-scale exhibition. Lisa also hoped that Brian

and went up stairs. Before heading to his study, he glanced

newspapers out of her bag and scanned the recruitment page as she lay on the bed. She skimmed through the page making marks on

excitedly marked the opening with a big circle and a star

placed it on top of the bedside table, turned off the lights and went to sleep. Now more than ever, she was determined to bounce back and

the crescent moon sprinkled into the room, spreading unto Molly's face. She

was the latest version of derringer that was developed by the Russians. It had the best range, speed, and recoil. It could accommodate six bullets and for someone as skilled as Brian, six was more

of Brian as he was wiping the pistol. He paused and stared at the blue diamond that

ring back in QY Island, he had told her that the Soul of K would protect her. But what he hadn't told her was that it was the symbol of XK Intelligence Agency and that it could only be

The one that Richie had given Shirley was purple because that was her favorite color. Maybe Brian chose blue for himself too because of Shawn and Richie. But for Molly,

and Molly had matching colors. Shawn once told him, "Blue is the loveliest and most adaptive color. One who is fond of blue was born to be loved," and he always

in the pistol, Brian's eyes seemed to change

Ding!