"If I help you, you'll have to make up for it when we get inside the car." His delicate fingers moved across her cheek and towards her chin, which he lifted up and stole glance at. Her breath blew on his own. "Why do you look so surprised?" he asked gently, but with an evil smile.
It took her a while to calm down her fury, then she replied," Brian, why do you always insult me? Does it make you happy to see me suffer?"
"You think I am insulting you?" he asked, his evil smile suddenly vanishing. "You really think everything I do is an insult?"
Overcoming her terror, Molly steeled her nerves, clenched her hands, and looked straight into Brian's eyes, which were burning with fury. "Yes, I do! So tell me! Why do you have to humiliate me like that? I may be a humble girl from a lowly family, but I am a human being and I deserve respect too!"
As she spoke, tears built up in her eyes, which she tried to hold down. She didn't want anybody's pity, especially not Brian's. Although, it was clear that he would never pity her, she just couldn't control herself anymore. She was totally exhausted, mentally and physically.
"When you have a father who's addicted to gambling, you don't have any dignity left!" Brian coldly replied. He was staring at her with a haughty smile, and his heart twisted into a dance when he saw the thin, weak girl in front of him try to pretend to be strong.
He hated how she was increasingly able to stir up his feelings. Even Becky couldn't have affected him like that but Molly... She could easily make him happy or sad.
She bowed her head and chuckled.
"What are you laughing at?" Brian sneered.
Molly looked up at him with tears in her eyes, and replied angrily," I am laughing at myself… Me... a disgraceful sex-toy fighting for respect.How ridiculous!"
Brian squinted his dark eyes and stared at Molly. For some reason, his heart grew anxious.
For him, he could look down upon Molly if he wanted, but she wasn't allowed to think little of herself!
Ding!
The elevator stopped, and the door slowly opened. Brian did not move even as Molly stood behind him, blocked by his tall body.
Outside, a nurse was about to push a patient inside in a wheelchair, but Brian's murderous looks stopped her in her path.
Whoonk! The door closed again. The nurse outside relaxed and took a deep breath, as she tried to compose herself.
The patient, sitting in silence in the wheelchair, was able to catch a glimpse of Molly, as she had moved slightly as the door was closing. Furrowing his eyebrows, he started thinking of something. Molly's face reminded him of someone important.
"It seemed to be her !" he said to himself.
"What?" hearing the murmuring, the nurse curiously asked.
"Nothing!" the man in the wheelchair replied slightly, cleverly changing the topic. "Look, the other elevator has arrived. Let's get through on that one."
"Okay!" the nurse replied, as she pushed him inside.
Inside the elevator, Molly and Brian were still engaged in their standoff. When it arrived at the underground parking garage and the door opened, neither of them moved. When the door was about to close, Brian blocked it, and dragged her outside towards his car.
Tony was waiting for them by a long, luxury car. Seeing Brian and Molly coming, he immediately held the door open for them.
Brian roughly threw her inside and then got inside. Tony closed the door, got into the driver's seat and drove away.
Molly glowered at him and curled up in the seat, trying to get as far away from him as possible in the confined space.
The wary and distant look on her face seemed to make him even angrier. He almost felt like strangling her right in his car!
His piercing stare was like an eagle stalking its prey. Startled, Molly kept thinking about what Brian had said in the elevator.
"Come here. Sit closer to me!" Brian coldly commanded.
Molly shook her head without thinking, and even tried to move backwards, although there was no more space for her to move.
The resistance seemed to burst Brian's bubble completely into a rage. He simply reached out and pulled her close forcibly.
"Ow!" Molly cried out like a child. "Let go of me, Brian Long! Let go of Me!"
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