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?"

of hopelessness in her heart and said 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

his study, he glanced at the door of Mark's bedroom which was closed. He lingered

the recruitment page as she lay on the bed. She skimmed through the page making marks on openings that

big circle and a star

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

into the room, spreading unto Molly's face. She looked even

The pistol was quite small like the center of a palm. It 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,

light flashed in front of Brian as he was wiping the pistol. He paused and stared at the blue diamond that was on the pistol. It was the

the symbol of XK Intelligence Agency and that it could only be possessed by those at the

of K to Richie because only Richie was important to him. Shawn's was also blue. 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, he chose blue because he felt as if that was the color that was most fitting to her—blue

he and Molly had matching colors. Shawn once told him, "Blue is the loveliest and most adaptive

he stroked the Soul of K in the

Ding!