Love Began with the First Meeting novel Chapter 802

When you gamble with the happiness of your lifetime, how could I stand by and watch you lose? I will make sure you win by any means. —Spark

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Spark frowned slightly when he saw Molly's expressions change and asked, "Mol, what's wrong?"

"This place... It doesn't look strange to me. I think I have been here," she said as she gazed at the dense forest. Her voice sounded empty, as if she was caught in a nightmare.

Spark looked confused. He asked, "Have you been here before?"

"Yeah, I think so... In my childhood," Molly answered, still in a daze.

Spark's brows furrowed deeper. He didn't know much about Dragon Island, but had heard a lot about it through the news and if it weren't for Molly, he wouldn't have been here at all. Even though he was unfamiliar with the island, it was common knowledge that there was a mountain behind the royal garden. It was a restricted zone and public entry was forbidden. Nobody, except those invited by the Long Family to the royal garden, was permitted to enter the mountain.

"You have been to the royal garden?" Spark asked curiously, "Did you spend your childhood in Dragon Island?"

Molly withdrew her sight from the tall trees and looked at her feet, concealing the bitterness in her eyes. She answered solemnly, "Yeah, I lived here for a few years." But looking around again, she corrected herself, "No, I can't say that I had a life here. I just stayed here for a while, I guess."

Her mind re-winded to one particular summer in her childhood. The weather had been quite pleasant in Dragon Island at the time—moderate temperature with frequent spells of rains which cleaned the island, making it look like heaven on earth.

With the support of the National Congress, the business summit sponsored by the four big families in Dragon Island had been allowed to be held at the royal garden. During that time, Molly had come here secretly, following Becky. While she was loitering in the mountain, she had encountered a boy. He was good-looking, like a scaled-down version of Brian.

Molly's mouth opened slightly and she fixed her eyes on the forest. In her mind, the boy's image gradually became clearer. Despite his young age, his long eyes had been as sharp as a falcon's and his mouth was pursed into a straight line. When she had unexpectedly run into him in the forest, he was playing with a pistol which had a blue diamond on it. The diamond shone brilliantly as the rays of the sun hit it through the gaps in the thick trees. When she had approached him and asked him what that was, he had calmly put his pistol into his pocket and had told her that it was a toy.

Molly's eyes popped out as the memories came back to her. "That was him!" she yelled, astonished by her discovery.

Spark didn't say anything. He just looked at her silently.

Her face was pale. She tried hard to search her memory about what had happened after that meeting. But she couldn't remember anything except their meeting and the few words they had exchanged in the beginning. So she couldn't tell if anything had happened between them after that. Her thoughts kept wandering and her mind was a mess. In the end, she wasn't even sure if that boy was Brian. She had a feeling that she was idealizing what had happened because she was missing Brian too much and maybe that had been an ordinary incident between her and some ordinary boy.

"Let's go," Molly said, turning away from her memories. But Spark could tell that she didn't want to leave the forest. Only she knew why. Perhaps she was unwilling to discard her past memories, or maybe she was unwilling to discard her current feelings.

Spark didn't ask Molly any question about what she had just said. Instead, he tactfully decided to ask her something else. He looked at her absent-minded face and asked, "Mol, do you truly love him?"

Molly looked at him in surprise, as if he had asked her a stupid question.

He sighed. "If you truly love him," Spark paused for a moment and continued, "then please agree to marry Eric."