Love Began with the First Meeting novel Chapter 882

The air in the luxurious ward of the private hospital owned by the Leng's Corporations was filled with extreme tension.

Helen was lying in bed, staring coldly at her three sons. Over the past years, she had tried her best to fight off Aaron and his mother to win back her husband's heart and the control over Leng's Corporations. She had never imaged, however, that her sons would help her enemies to defeat her.

"Mom," Gale said, "What has happened cannot be changed now."

"Shut up!" Helen yelled, glaring at him. "All of you are stupid and useless! You sold your shares to Aaron! Do you know what this would mean for the Leng family?" She gasped as she yelled. She was going out of breath.

Ted leaned against the wall with his arms across his chest. He had retained his posture and had kept his silence ever since they had stepped inside. His only response to his mother's yelling was a nonchalant sigh.

James shook his head helplessly and spoke in a low voice, "Mom, it is clear that the current situation is the best we can hope for."

"This is the best you can hope for?!" Helen grew more enraged at her son's words. Her eyes spit furious fire as she looked at him and roared, "You have become timid ever since your accident, James. Where's your former ambition? All you are capable of doing is growing your little flowers and plants. How could you possibly lead a comfortable life like that without financial support from the Leng's Corporation?"

"Mom!" Ted shouted in anger hearing her words. The furious expression on his face was exactly the same as James'. The twins resembled each other so much. "Do you really think that you had nothing to do with James' accident? Let me make this very clear to you. James doesn't need any financial support from Leng's Corporations or the Leng family. Gale and I will always be there for him. We're brothers!"

Helen stared at her youngest son with her eyes wide open in astonishment. His words were completely beyond her expectations. She murmured like a puppet, "Are you blaming me for James' misfortune? Is this how you treat your mother?"

"Hmph!" Ted sniffed and continued, "Are you still planning to make James carry my name and live in my shadow for the rest of his life, Mom? I'm not James, I'm Ted! I can never be the James whom you were so proud of. I can never be the person you want me to be!"

His words were harsh and undeniable; Helen was dumbfounded. She lost her ability to speak and stayed frozen in bed. She was afraid to see the truth behind his words. She had been living a lie which she had fabricated for herself. And now, Ted's brutal words had started to shatter her illusions. It was true that James used to be her pride. But thanks to her enmity with others, her most beloved son had suffered the disastrous accident in her place when he had taken out her tampered car that fateful day. She looked at James in the wheelchair, who was now known to everybody as Ted. Tears rolled down from her eyes.

"Even though that might be true... you had no reason to hand over the corporation your father had built up from scratch." Her voice was coarse, concealing the trace of remorse in her tone.

"Mom," James said flatly, "I could never stand as an equal with Aaron. There's no way for me to compete with him, even if I was still my former self." He let out a defeated sigh before continuing, "You have to accept this reality if you don't want Leng's Corporations to be ruined." He paused to calm down the emotions in his heart and spoke in a more peaceful tone, "Aaron is smart. It didn't take him much time to win control over Leng's Corporations. Besides, he has great influence in the government. If he wants this island country to exist independently for as long as possible, he needs to try harder to keep his status in the country and climb even higher. Isn't this good? And the Leng's Corporations is still under control of the Leng family."

"He is not one of us!" Helen screamed at the top of her voice, her chest falling up and down as she tried to steady her breathing.

"He is!" James said clearly, "He's our brother, our father's oldest son. Though we have different mothers, we have the same father. No one can deny that." Helen was so shocked that she looked like she was about to pass out. But James continued, although he had noticed his mother's pale face. "Everybody knows it, although you and Daddy are unwilling to admit it."