Love Began with the First Meeting novel Chapter 1023

With her mouth ajar, Molly didn't know how to respond to Brian. The corners of her mouth twitched for a couple of times before she was able to plaster a fake smile across her lips. Gritting her teeth in secret, she finally managed to say, "Angry? How could I be angry? Of course I'm not angry. Ha-ha..."

"Mr. Brian Long, your pen is ready!" the salesman announced. As he did that, he handed Brian a delicate-looking bag respectfully. Unconsciously, he rescued Molly from great embarrassment.

In an indifferent manner, Brian withdrew his sight from Molly. After paying the bill, he said, "Let's go. It will be almost time for dinner when we arrive."

Sulkily, Molly followed him out of the store and got in the car. On their way to the restaurant, Molly was in low spirits. For the life of her, she could not understand why Brian couldn't act romantically towards her just like how Richie did towards Shirley. 'Hasn't he inherited his father's romantic gene?' she wondered to herself. For consecutive days, she had intentionally met with Spark in the hopes of arousing Brian's jealousy. To her disappointment, however, he looked as indifferent as he did before, as if he didn't care about his wife being close to another man.

While driving the car, Brian took his eyes off the road for a brief second to look at Molly. His usually hard, cold stare became soft and his face lightened up. He even had a faint smile on his lips. "Wing and Weston will leave Dragon Island tomorrow. I've just told Mark that we will also leave in a couple of days... Shirley wants Charlie and Evelyn to accompany her for a few more days. When she and Richie go back to XK Intelligence Agency, they will make a detour to A City to send the twins to us."

"Hmp!" Molly answered sulkily, rolling her eyes. "I already know that."

Hearing annoyance and frustration in her voice, Brian took another quick glance at Molly. No words came out of his mouth, however, and he continued driving in silence.

This made Molly angrier. She could not tell whether Brian was really oblivious at how angry he was making her feel, or he was just pretending not to recognize it. Some moments ago, he had pulled her out of the bar and away from Spark in such a domineering manner, but now he was literally paying no attention to her.

The sudden beeping of Brian's phone disrupted the silence inside the car and jolted Molly back from her deep thoughts. With a button press, Brian picked the call up.

"Mr. Brian Long," Tony said respectfully on the other end of the line, "Mr. Addison Long said that the dinner he arranged for this evening has been cancelled. He has to attend an emergency meeting in the National Congress. He told me that he called you but that he couldn't get through."

"Hmm," Brian replied in acknowledgement and then hung up the phone. Taking a glance at Molly, he asked, "Now that the dinner has been cancelled, do you have any other plans on where to eat dinner?"