Molly sighed silently. She knew that Brian could easily tell what she was thinking about even if she chose not to ask him. She would rather ask him than keep such a load on her mind. After all, she was going to spend her whole life with him. Molly was determined to ask him now. After taking a deep breath, she asked,"Bri, have you ever had a fiancee?"
*
Cora was having her lunch leisurely at a western style restaurant. Sipping her wine, she looked out the window at the people who were walking by. A faint smile always played at the corners of her mouth.
The prompt tone of a message sounded from her cellphone. She withdrew her sight and picked up her phone from the table. She read the short message,"I have contacted him. It will be a tough task."
Cora shrugged and quickly replied to the text. A few moments later, another message arrived.
It read,"I'm not very optimistic about you."
Cora rolled her eyes. Discontentedly, she replied,"I know what kind of person Brian Long is. He can't escape. I won't allow it."
"Then I can do nothing but wish you luck," the final message arrived.
After reading it, Cora frowned and threw the cellphone onto the table. She was not in the mood to enjoy her lunch anymore.
Leaning against the chair, she raised her enchanting eyes upwards to look at the ceiling. Complicated emotions spilled over them. She knew very well what kind of person Brian was. It was exactly because she knew him so well that she couldn't understand why he had married such an ordinary and coward woman like Molly. She wondered how he had lived with her for so many years.
She snorted. She didn't believe that her father was right this time.
Losing her appetite, Cora decided to give up on her lunch. After paying the bill, she walked out of the restaurant. As soon as she got into the car, she dialed Brian's number—something she hadn't done in the past eleven years.
She still remembered the time when he had caught a pheasant for them to eat in the Hell Forest of XK Intelligence Agency. It felt like that had happened just yesterday. Despite the hardships and her fear in the face of death, she had stayed there for two years only because she had been able to be with him. When she had finished her training at XK Intelligence Agency, she had left with bright hopes brought by the agreement between the two of them. However, she hadn't expected that she would fall into a coma for eleven years due to that accident.
When she had finally woken up, she had found that the woman by Brian's side had no longer been Becky Yan, but Molly Xia.
The phone rang for some time, but no one picked up. Angrily, Cora pressed the cancel key. Her eyes turned dark, while a sneer appeared on her lips.
Meanwhile, Brian and Molly, along with the twins, walked out of A-magic after having their lunch. Tony walked to Brian and whispered in his ear,"Mr. Brian Long, Miss Ke called. Would you like to call her back?"
Brian was indifferent to the news. After placing Evelyn in the car, he nodded slightly to Tony. Then he got into the driver's seat and drove away from the restaurant.
Tony stared at the car until it entered the traffic stream. Then he took out his cellphone and dialed Cora's number.
"Tony, I want to talk to Brian,"
Cora said in an ice-cold voice as soon as the call was connected. Her tone was so arrogant and powerful that a normal person would be intimidated by her. But Tony was not just some ordinary person. In an apathetic voice, he said,"Miss Ke, why are you trying to change an established fact? Mr. Brian Long came back from Dragon Island as soon as he found out that you were there. You should know his attitude towards you from that. You should not have met Mrs. Molly Long and created trouble for her."
Cora burst into laughter. She said,"Tony, we're old acquaintances. You know the relationship between me and Brian very clearly."
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