Brian kept on staring at the words flashing on the phone screen motionless. When the screen dimmed automatically, he still didn't shift his gaze off the screen.
Molly stared at Brian. He had a handsome and attractive profile and always wore a cool and indifferent expression. Every time when she gazed upon him, she always felt he had an impersonal, freakish vibe like some fairy-tale character. What's more, his arrogance and aggressiveness were so off-putting and easily noticeable that anybody could tell.
"Bri!"
Molly called him in silence. She didn't know why, but she just wanted to call him this way. By sheer coincidence or using telepathy, Brian turned around to look at her in the meantime.
This time Molly didn't avoid; she looked straight into Brian's eyes. She didn't know why. When she had been drugged and fainted yesterday, she had not been as scared as she had imagined. It seemed as if she had known that she'd pull through just fine. Maybe it was because like the proverbial cat with nine lives she had survived danger far too many times and she was used to it, or maybe it was her confidence in Brian coming to her rescue.
Waking up in the morning, Molly saw Brian's handsome face as soon as she opened her eyes. At that moment, she must have been relieved.
Fluttering her eyelashes, Molly licked her lips. Even though she knew he'd play his usual games, she still couldn't stop dreaming about the rosy things she knew he'd never agree to.
When her eyes misted because she had gone off into wild flights of fancy, a rough finger tip touched her face, gently stroked it from her cheek all the way to the corner of her cute mouth. Whether intentionally or unintentionally, Brian seemed to fancy this little trick, which Molly knew was nothing but a pretense of geniality. Because when she looked into his deep, cold eyes, any illusion she might have had about his friendliness was shattered again.
With a quiet sigh, she took the cell phone from Brian's hand, lowered her head, quickly typed a message and gave the phone back to him.
Brian read with raised eyebrows,"I was just kidding you. Even if I really become mute, I will only blame myself. It is my fate. I will definitely not blame you for it."
Trying her best, Molly hid the complex emotions in her heart, forced a smile and looked at Brian with crystal-like clear eyes.
Without paying much attention, Brian cast a passing glance at the words on the phone screen, and then looked at Molly again. But the moment he noticed a smile on her lips and a sparkle in her eyes, his gaze turned intense again. So charming, so beautiful her eyes were, you'd think they were stars waiting to light up the sky at nightfall.
He stopped stroking her face with his fingers, seriously gazed at her and said in a deep and husky voice,"I promise I won't let you become a mute!"
For the time being, his promise might not have meant much for both of them. But neither of them could have expected that something quietly started to change.
After Tony procured the prescribed drugs from the doctor, Brian went straight to the QY Island airport with Molly. On arrival, they ran into Shawn unexpectedly. Brian exchanged a look with Tony, and Tony immediately understood his intention and accompanied Molly to board first.
After looking at Molly, who was about to board, Shawn cut Brian a glance, his cunning intentions concealed by a veneer of enchantment, and said,"You seem to care a lot about her!"
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