Love Began with the First Meeting

The selfishness of maternal love was often manifested in all mothers' extravagant wishes to leave all good things to their children, but they often forgot that many things were beyond their control!

Eric's voice came through the phone—his breathing was unstable, short, and deep.

Shirley was stunned at first, and then asked: "What? What did you just say? What's wrong with Mark?"

All the people in the room suddenly turned their attention towards her especially Molly. When she heard something was wrong with Mark, she instantly worried.

From the rear view mirror, Eric looked at Mark, who was lying in a coma in the back seat. As he sped up his car, he replied, "I don't know what's wrong with him yet. Mark was eating at a restaurant with me earlier. He was fine at the beginning but all of a sudden he said he felt bad, and then he passed out before he finished talking. I'm on my way to the hospital right now."

Shirley's face was white as a sheet and her voice was trembling as she hastily spoke, "Okay, you do that, then we'll be there right away." Then she hung up and said in a rush, "Mark passed out for some unknown reason, so Eric's bringing him to the hospital now."

Molly's face turned the same shade as Sheryl's when she heard that. Brian's eyes grew sharp but he remained silent. Brian just walked out of the room with Molly and broke speed limits as they drove their way to the Dragon Empire Group Hospital of A City. They were followed by Richie and Shirley in their own car.

Eric leaned on the outside wall of the emergency room with his arms cross around his chest. With a cold look on his face, he kept staring at the closed door of the emergency room. All the doctors in charge from all the departments of the hospital were gathered inside to examine for Mark. He waited with increasing anxiety as every second passed by.

A moment later, he heard a bunch of footsteps rushing towards him.

Eric turned to Richie, Shirley, Brian, and Molly leading the pack running towards him. He was a bit surprised. When did Brian and Molly come back?

"Eric," Molly gasped and asked, "Where's Mark? How is he?" What happened? Why did he suddenly pass out?"

expectantly as if she wanted him to tell her that it wasn't a big deal. But he didn't. His face was solemn and even that playful smile of his was gone

and she

"I don't

his thin lips, narrowed his eyes and

Eric answered gravely. No one spoke for a while. But Brian and Eric had already talked about this before—Mark was allergic to some food. "He

starting to build on Molly's eyes but she tried her best to keep herself from crying. Brian pulled her in to hold her and whispered in her ears, "Don't worry, Mark's going to be fine,"

up at Brian, her eyes welling up. He looked cold and distant but Molly knew that deep inside, he was just as worried as she was.

five of them waited in the corridor. The father Richie and his son Brian were almost wearing the same expression, indifferent and without revealing any emotion, but

and she was standing next to Shirley who every once in a while offered her a comforting look. Eric was leaning against the wall and was frowning. Eric was an easygoing, detached guy yet here

a team of doctors were huddled up examining

nurse said as

it carefully while a neurosurgeon was carrying out a careful examination on Mark. He went through

surgeon's face was heavy. "There's

the film to the surgeon, and after he saw it, his face

mother took some medicines while she was pregnant. So now he can't absorb a lot—only a specific amount of Vitamin C.

she took mild medicines that Elias had prescribed her with,

exchanged grave looks with one another. When they found out what was wrong with Mark, Dr. He took the blame and resigned thereafter. They didn't know why Dr. He didn't declare or report Mark's problem. They would have figured out a way while he was still a fetus and that would've been easier but now that he was a grown kid, it was impossible to cure. They were sure that Mr. Brian and his family wouldn't allow this to happen again and today was just an accident. But right now, the

heavily, "For now, we have to figure out what to do