Getting injured and wounded had become a routine in her life for the past two years. Her intense training exposed her to getting injured and wounded almost all the time. She was afraid of feeling pain but she was no longer dodging it.
'Brian, I can do whatever you did to me to you too! I would like you to know that I, Molly Xia, am not a sheep!' she thought.
Molly tried to ignore the pain by thinking of Brian. She had been reminding herself of all the things Brian had done to her before. She had used to be afraid of not enduring all the pains. However, she was persistent enough and she desired to get him again.
Tears spilled out of her eyes unconsciously. She didn't even know that she was crying until the wind blew on her face and she felt cold. It was good to shed tears. She hadn't allowed herself to be coward for even a moment in the past two years. She dared not let her tears remind her of how weak she had been before.
Looking at Molly's fading back made Brian felt like a knife was cutting through his chest. Nobody except himself knew how much he wanted to hold her into his arms and hold her firmly against his body when she turned to leave.
'Molly, I dare not put you by my side. Don't you understand?' he thought.
He closed his eyes to dismiss his sadness. A few seconds after and he opened his eyes again. The sadness in his eyes was instantly replaced by fake coldness. He then turned to the other direction and left.
Without a star, the dark sky was as black as his mood. He chose to wrap himself with darkness.
Molly didn't appear before Brian for the next three days. It seemed that what had happened that night was nothing but a dream. It was so unreal that everyone who had heard of it couldn't even believe it.
Brian was holding a video conference on the top floor of EMP. Meanwhile, Tony was standing on one corner of that same office, uninterested to listen about what the meeting was about. He was too busy staring at Brian instead. He was just like that until Brian finally turned his head and their eyes met. Tony suddenly evaded Brian's freezing gaze and looked out the window.
It was still cloudy. Actually, the clouds were too thick that there was barely any sunlight passing through it at all.
Tony had been criticizing Molly for a while. How could she give up so easily? He thought, 'Have you forgotten how many things Mr. Brian Long did for you? Do you remember how aggrieved he had been because of you?'
*
Standing in the living room of their new house and looking around, Mark's satisfaction could be easily seen on his eyes. "Mommy, Papa Brian has such a good taste that he bought this apartment!" he said.
"I bought it!" Molly was almost speechless with what she heard.
However, Mark didn't seem to care about it and raised his head to look at his mother, "With Papa Brian's money!"
"..."
Vincent could not help roll his eyes while watching the mother and son. The two had been bickering each other since he couldn't remember when. After taking their luggage into the house, he asked, "Which room is for me?"
"You may choose any..." Molly said while pointing at one of the four bedrooms. "I'm taking that one. You take care of the rest." After saying that, she picked up a bag from the sofa and said, "I'm going out. Enjoy yourselves."
"Mommy," Mark turned around and said, "your foot hasn't recovered yet! "
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