Love Began with the First Meeting novel Chapter 469

She suddenly looked at Elias defensively.

Elias looked back at her in confusion. He thought she was afraid of needles so he asked, "Don't you want for Mark to be able to speak?"

"How so?"

"Then just buckle up and close your eyes, we have to take your blood," Elias said with a tone of finality.

Molly felt like she was being scrutinized by Elias. She wanted Mark to be able to speak and she knew Elias could do that but...

She gritted her teeth, gulped, and took a deep breath. She couldn't hide the fear from her face but she sucked it up in the end. It was not like she had a choice. She turned her head away as Elias injected the needle into her skin. The look in her eyes proved Elias right: she was afraid of needles. Meanwhile, Molly was feeling a wave of emotions left and right.

She didn't know if Brian was going to find out the truth about Mark this way, but she had been thinking about this all those years of Mark being unable to speak. She thought to herself, 'Maybe, if I wasn't so stubborn about keeping Mark then maybe I wouldn't be this worried now.

But how could I ever let go of Mark? Mark is all I have. I would have nothing if I didn't have Mark.'

"Okay, we already have everything we need," Elias finally said interrupting Molly's train of thought. He placed the tiny glass container where Molly's blood was in a rack, "We won't get the results until tomorrow."

Molly nodded. She quickly glimpsed at the vial of blood that Elias was holding earlier as she walked out of the room uneasily.

Mark jumped off his chair and ran towards Molly when he saw her heading for the door.

Molly lowered herself so she could rub Mark's head. "Doctor says we won't have the result until tomorrow," she said with a smile.

Mark nodded obediently. Looking at his dimpled-face, Molly smiled but she felt an emptiness in her heart. Ever since Mark realized that he couldn't speak, he'd just stayed obedient and done what he was told. Sometimes, Molly could see that Mark wanted to say something else but chose to let it go instead. Mark could see that Molly was hurting about his disorder so he did the best he could to not give her a hard time about it.

Molly took a deep breath, stood up, and said, "Let's go back to the hotel. Daddy's waiting for us there!"

Mark's eyes lit up. He took Molly's hand as they left the hospital.

"Miss Xia!"

"Are you...?" Molly tightened her grip at Mark's hand as she looked back at the voice alarmingly.

"Mr. Brian told me that I should drive you back to your hotel."

Molly looked at him in confusion then at the hospital. She was considering arguing with him but decided against. She knew it would be useless.

At this time of the day with the sun up and bright, there wouldn't be much traffic on the road.

The man hadn't said a single word since they got on the car. At the backseat where Mark and Molly sat, Mark asked in sign language who Brian was. Molly waved him off. Mark didn't push it - maybe because he was too excited to see Spark or maybe because he could tell that Molly didn't want to talk about it anymore.