At that point, a frown was plastered on the woman's face and she turned to look at Brian.
In turn, Brian stood up from his seat. His face looked dark and the opposite of just awhile ago. His eyes squinted at her in a condescending manner and he spat out,"Molly Xia, do you need me to remind you that there is no relationship between us?"
His words made Molly's eyes suddenly feel sore. She could feel the stinging tears threatening to come out but she stopped it by clenching her hands so hard that her nails dug imprints onto her palms, and said through gritted teeth,"Is it true that we already have had no relationship?" She managed to get the words out clearly but struggled to hold back her tears. Her calmness completely flew out the window in an instant when she saw Brian with another woman, even when she had spent the whole night trying to be calm. "Even though we don't have any relationship now, but we have the same boy, Mark," She tried her best not let the tears run down. "This is a fact that you can never deny," Molly said in a voice laced with all the sadness she had felt.
However, Brian's face only turned darker. His eyes stared at Molly cruelly as if he wanted to cut her with a knife. He hissed,"You, Molly Xia, get out of here!"
At this point, Molly was filled with rage and said,"How could you say that?" Her eyes glared at him head-on and gave him a stern look,"On what status can you speak like that to me since we have no relationship?"
Brian had no response to that for a while. Then, the woman with him spoke up and broke the silence,"Brian..." She stood up as well and went on,"She…"
However, she was cut off when Molly bellowed angrily,"You shut up! This has nothing to do with you. It's between him and me..."
"For your information, it is you who should shut up!" Brian interrupted her as well. Brian's last words came out so cold that as if he came from hell and his iciness seemed to drop down Sun Island's high temperature when he talked.
Molly looked at an enraged Brian and there she knew that everything she had done, no matter how hard she strived, all her efforts seemed to be ridiculous. The tears she had been trying to hold back finally ran down her cheeks, some of the droplets falling to the sides of her lips. The liquid tasted so salty and bitter, just like the harsh reality that kept hurting her.
The woman beside Brian looked more serious, but said nothing.
"Brian, is she the one..." Molly's voice said through broken sobs, but she could not go on with her sentence. She felt as if she would only humiliate herself if she continued. She inhaled deeply and looked at Brian through tear-filled eyes and said,"Remember how you treated me today. You will feel regret someday! And I'll make sure to see it soon!" Her tightly pursed lips quivered as she spoke because she tried really hard to suppress her tears. Her eyes bore holes through Brian's own, but she got no response from him. Molly couldn't talk to him anymore, so she turned around and left.
When Molly was far from their sight, the woman walked closer to Brian and asked,"Are you sure not to go and catch up with her?"
Brian did not speak. He just stared at the continuously receding figure that was almost out of his field of vision.
"Is she the woman who you love for your whole life?" she asked in a low voice. The woman was puzzled when she noticed that Brian had not stopped staring at the direction Molly left. She then asked,"If you love her so much, why do you push her away?"
In turn, Brian sank to his seat again. His legs were crossed and one arm leaned on the armrest of the couch. His eyes looked at his left hand.
The woman followed suit and sat beside him. She asked again,"Brian, do you have to torture yourself like this? It is also too harsh to Molly." The air was still silent from Brian's end. She sighed deeply and went on,"Do you think Wing will be happy when she wakes up and sees everything?"
Brian still didn't reply, and just sat there as still as a statue.
"I don't know much about what happened between you and Molly. I only heard it from Aunt Shirley when I returned to XK Intelligence Agency and visited her." The lady looked at Brian and asked,"Do you want to know what I think of it?"
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