Love Began with the First Meeting novel Chapter 864

The man in the wheelchair looked away and no one knew what he actually saw. He knew that he should leave, but it was too hard for him to refuse that voice.

"James..." Ximena called his name again.

Her lips were quivering and her eyes were moist. She had never known that the man she fell in love with had such high status in QY Island. She never expected that he was so famous and prominent. If she had known the truth, she would have tried her best not to love him. Maybe she would not have led such a miserable life these past five years.

"I am sorry," the gentle voice came from the man in the wheelchair. His eyes showed nothing but guilt and no trace of love nor even a tinge of passion could be sensed from him. With a hoarse voice, he continued slowly, "I cannot fulfill my commitment for you. Please forget about me." Holding bitter tears, he paused for a little while then added, "If you cannot forget me, please hate me. I am no longer the man you loved before."

After he finished talking, the man left quietly in his wheelchair. Ximena was left aghast following him with her gaze full of resentment.

Slowly, she could feel the tears brimming in her eyes, Ximena gazed at the man in the wheelchair and did nothing till he disappeared in the darkness of the night. Tears came from Ximena's eyes slowly, ran down her cheeks and fall into her thin lips. She didn't bother to wipe them dry. She wanted them to flow out of her eyes so as to ease the pain she felt inside. The tears tasted bitter in her mouth while she kept on staring at the direction of the wheelchair that disappeared in the dark. Letting out a deep sigh, finally, she exclaimed, "James, I hate you! I hate you! Ahhh! I hate everything about you!"

Ximena cried loudly, with her tears storming down her cheeks. She cried regardless of anything else as if she wanted to drown out all the sufferings she had for so many years.

Whilst, on the other hand, silently sitting in a far corner, Aaron looked at Ximena crying with a cold expression in his eyes. He did nothing but take out and lit a cigarette. Smoke was puffing out of his mouth while he stared at her. He seemed to enjoy seeing her in such a tragic state.

Drown in her own misery, Ximena cried and cried. She had forgotten about Aaron who was with her and just looked at the direction where James disappeared. Through her blurry eyes, she hoped that the wheelchair would come to her again and console her out of despair. She lingered and waited, but no James came back to her, not even his shadows.

On the other end, the man in the wheelchair sat in a corner where Ximena couldn't see him. Hearing Ximena's wails, an expression of sadness found its way to his face. Despite the torment, James just looked towards the exit without paying any attention to anything else.

"If you love her so much, why do you let Aaron do that to her?" The voice was calm beside him, then came a pair of shoes, together with long legs. "You would rather be so grieved and let her be hurt by Aaron?"

"Brother Gale. I'm doing it all for her," James forced himself to laugh in a self-deprecating way. But the laugh turned into a hard frown as his mind reminded him of the hurt thinking about how the woman he loved shed tears for him. "I will do her more harm if I still insist being together with her," he added after an awkward pause.

Feeling sorry for James, Gale sighed heavily while looking at the miserable man in the wheelchair and retorted, "But she is not happy at all together with Aaron."

"She will be better with him. After all, I am already disabled. Don't you think so?" James lowered his gaze and examined his legs before asking painfully.

Faced with the truth and left with nothing to say, Gale sighed again and raised his eyes.

At the end of the corridor, Aaron dragged Ximena away rudely, without any tenderness. Witnessing the scene, James said again slowly, "Aaron is starting his move now."

The man in the wheelchair closed his eyes and tried to calm his mood down, "We should cherish a great rival. It will be even more precious than a good friend sometimes." Hearing what he said, Gale curled his lips and replied, "When Aaron finds that getting rid of the Leng's Corporations is way too easy, will he be so ashamed that he will get rid of us both?"

"Maybe he will," James raised his head and looked at his brother, the current executive president of the Leng's Corporations. "I am worried about you now," he continued while staring at him with sympathetic eyes. However, he managed to give him a weird smile to get away the threats of trouble on his face. Seeing the sudden change of his expression, Gale's face turned stiff suddenly. With the "watching the drama" expression on his brother's face vanished, the man in the wheelchair spoke slowly again, "Aaron is never a kind person."

Realizing that the man in the wheelchair was now leaving, Gale said through his gritted teeth, "You are really a cold and cruel man!"

"Gale, if we are not, we will not give him the Leng's Corporations," he shouted back with his voice heard before the farther place. "If father knew how we three brothers treat each other, do you think he will be furious and have a heart attack?"

"Actually I am worried about mother more..." Gale murmured. After he gave another look at the man in the wheelchair, Gale turned to the crowd and headed towards the party.

Since the most important person at the party showed up, the party started formally. As usual, the people in the party were tediously communicated with each other with fake smiles on their faces. The only thing that was unusual tonight was that James Leng attended the party.