Love Began with the First Meeting novel Chapter 849

Molly still felt she was in a dream. She took a look at Brian and then at the queen. She criticised Brian in her mind repeatedly, for not informing her of all the details in advance. But first of all she had to respond to the queen's greeting. "Nice to meet you as well. I'm Molly Xia," she said.

"I've heard a lot about you and have known you by name for a long time now," the queen said with a sincere smile. Then looking at Brian she winked, and Brian looked back at her. Sharing this intimacy between them made Molly blush. An awkwardness stirred in her stomach. She wondered why she felt like this, it concerned her.

"I have ordered servants to serve up the dinner," the queen said. "Unfortunately, it is the high season for sand storms. So we don't want the food left out longer than it should be."

She led them to the banquet hall, while chatting to Molly and Brian. All the time Molly's eyes surveyed the beauty of the ornamentation and large drawing rooms they passed through.

On their way to the banquet hall, the queen told Molly how she and Brian had gotten to know each other. Despite it's characteristic of being a small country, C Country hadn't had a stable regime. Instead, the fight between parties had been severe. Allegations were made about the queen, as a princess at the time, being a mixed bred heiress. The queen had been pushed aside by the king's rivals. The regime declared that she had not been of pure linage to the royal pedigree. This had been a detrimental blow to her authority.

The king, the current queen's father, had loved his own daughter very much. He had feared when he would pass away, his rivals might try to topple the monarchy by disregarding his daughter and wife. In that case, the loss of political power would be devastating but not the worst result. What would be far worse was that they might be secretly assassinated. Anticipating the worst of these fears and possibilities, the king made up his mind to send his daughter to XK Intelligence Agency to receive training. It was not until now that Molly got to learn of the true association of the queen and Brian. They had spent an entire year together. Both of their course had coincided with their studies at Hell Forest.

Hearing the queen explaining all of this, Brian took a glance at Molly. Biting on her lip, she glared at him aggressively. She was blaming him for making her wait and not explaining earlier, allowing the queen to divulge the information.

"Please," The queen said and looked towards Molly while stretching her right hand towards the banquet hall, motioning at the door. They all entered the banquet hall together.

There was a long dining room table in the banquet hall, already laden with many different dishes. These featured C Countries traditional and staple meals, which including roast whole lamb, fermented milk and all kinds of desserts made of cheese. Each of them gave off its own unique aroma. However, looking at and smelling the wonderful dishes made Molly react unexpectedly. These seemingly delicious meals only made her feel sick to her stomach.

"Yuck... yuck..." She felt a serve attack of nausea, then wanting to vomit. She tried her utmost to restraint from gagging but in vain. Finally she heaved and gagged but fortunately nothing was expelled.

"What's wrong?" Brian asked hurriedly. An expression of true concern appeared on his face. This was unusual for his character.

Shaking her head, Molly looked at him with an expression of guilt on her face, and then at the queen with an expression of embarrassment. "I'm really sorry. I... Yuck..." She couldn't even finish her sentence. Her stomach began rolling violently as a crocodile doing a death roll, as soon as she saw the mutton on the table.

The queen didn't take offence or mind Molly's behaviour. On the contrary she was understanding, calling out an order in a hurry, "Call a doctor."

A servant standing behind her answered yes and immediately ran out, to call for a doctor. Then the queen contemplated for a while.