"What? Did you mean that you don't want me to keep you company?"
Brian's ghostly voice whispered in Molly's ears. Her heart trembled. She scolded herself in her mind
that she had forgotten to obey him, so she immediately corrected her words and explained,"I didn't
mean that. I don't like having meals alone, so if you can keep me company, of course that would be
great... But... I was just afraid of disturbing your work."
Brian couldn't help but grin devilishly after hearing her explanation. He asked,"Really?"
"Yes, yes! Of course!" Molly nodded her head heavily in order for him to believe her. But then she
realized that she had reacted too fast and too dramatic that it sounded like a lie. Molly grinned with
embarrassment and looked at Brian with her pure eyes. She awkwardly added some more words to
explain,"Lisa said that you were always so busy that sometimes you barely have time to eat anything. If
we can have meals together, you might be able to have your meals on time, too."
Molly's face flushed red after finishing her words. Her face had already reddened because of the cold
wind. Now, it went even redder because of embarrassment. She bit her lower lip and lowered her
eyelids. Uneasily moving her red and freezing hands, Molly was scolding herself in her mind for saying
those words to Brian.
Looking at how awkward Molly felt while speaking to him, Brian's eyes glimmered with pleasure.
Although he knew that she had said these words out of fear, Brian still felt much happier.
Brian lowered his eyes and noticed that Molly's hands had already turned red because of playing with
the snow. A hint of anger flashed across his face as he scolded her,"Are you a fool? Why didn't you
wear gloves when you made the snowman?"
Though he looked angry while he spoke, Brian gently reached out to Molly, and then wrapped her cold
hands with his big palms to give her warmth.
Molly was surprised by what he did. She raised her head and noticed that his bushy eyebrows were
furrowing out of worry. His sudden tenderness shocked her so much that Molly didn't know how to
react.
At that moment, that certain amusing thought came to her mind once again. Molly found it hard to
believe that this kind and compassionate man who was giving her warmth was the same cruel and
ruthless man she knew. She wondered whether it was true that he had a split personality.
"What? You're thinking that I have a split personality again, right?" Although he was asking a question,
the tone of his voice was actually confirmative. Molly looked at him with embarrassment. He was able
to read her mind again. Brian put on a slight smile and said gently,"You're my woman, of course... I
should treat you well!"
The snowflakes gently fell on their hair and shoulders. Brian's tender and attractive voice came into
Molly's ears, and touched her heart. She even forgot about how cruel this man was.
Molly slightly blinked her eyes. She kept her eyes on Brian, without trying to pull her hands back from
his big palms. She felt the warmth coming from his hands, through her own ones, and all the way to her
heart.
"A man helps a woman warm up her hands on a winter night... Do you know what it means? It's a very
ambiguous and spoiled behavior," Molly blurted out the words with a dash of affection flickering in her
eyes. But when she realized what she had said, she felt embarrassed once again and immediately
explained,"I... What I meant is... We are not that close to each other, so..."
Molly said and slowly pulled her hands back from Brian's palms.
At first, when Brian heard her speak, he had felt delighted and grinned even more widely like a child.
But then, his smile instantly faded away from his face as he heard what she said next. He gripped her
hands even tighter, stopping her from drawing them back, and said,"We've already done the most
intimate thing. How could you say that we aren't close to each other?"
Instantly, Molly's face blushed bright red. She bit her lower lip, frowned, and said,"That's not what I
meant..."
"So what did you mean?" Brian replied immediately.
"I..." Molly paused, and then all of a sudden, in an angry tone said,"I didn't mean anything. Forget it!"
She turned her face away to one side, and cursed Brian in her mind. Then, she asked,"So are we
going to keep standing here?"
Brian looked at her capricious and expressive face. His black eyes gleamed with a light delight. In fact,
he didn't have the ability to read her mind, nor did he have any technique to do it. He was just able to
guess it based on her obvious facial expressions. How could he not know when her emotions were so
transparent on her face?
"You haven't finished making the snowman yet, have you?" asked Brian.
"What?" Molly asked. She turned her head back to look at Brian with confusion outlined all over her
face.
Brian threw a glance at the snowman and then let go of Molly, who was in a daze. At that moment,
Tony walked up to them and said,"Mr. Long! Here you are!"
Brian took the things from Tony's hands which were two black things that looked like a pair of eyes, and
a carrot with one end cut sharp. Then, he pressed the two black round things on the snowman's face,
and then stuck the carrot into it as a nose. While he carefully adjusted the angle of the carrot with his
long and slim fingers, he said slowly,"Your smile just now was very beautiful. Smile more from now on."
Still in a daze, Molly was totally engrossed on Brian's fingers on the snowman and was deaf to his
words. In her mind, she pictured the scene that they were making a snowman together.
She wondered what an interesting scene it would be to see a cold and ruthless man rolling a snowball,
patting the snow, and then...
Molly couldn't help but start to grin at the thought. Following her imagination of the scene, a bigger and
bigger smile drew across her face until her eyes were laughing to a line.
Right at that moment, Brian stood up and saw the smile on her face. When he looked deeply into her
pure and smiling eyes, his heart was suddenly stirred. Right then, unconsciously, he pulled Molly into
his arms and kissed her cold and red lips.
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