*
At the villa
Molly was sitting on the sofa in the large living room watching television. Her eyes shifted to the gate
once in a while, as if she was expecting someone to come in any moment. However, every time she
looked, she was disappointed.
Wing and Weston were standing at the stairs on the third floor. Wing had been observing Molly for
some time now. Finally, she could not help but smile happily.
"Why do you always pay attention to everybody else's problem except your own?!" Weston said with an
expression of dissatisfaction on his face. He looked like a young married woman who was being bullied
by her mother-in-law. Any stranger who saw him right now wouldn't believe that he was a musician.
"Weston, what are you mumbling about?" Wing asked casually while still looking at Molly.
"Nothing," Weston said hastily, "I was just wondering if this girl has fallen in love with my brother-in-
law."
Wing turned around swiftly and asked, "Who is your brother-in-law?"
"Brian, of course," Weston said seriously. But when he realized that Wing was about to get angry, he
said hastily, "Okay, okay. He is not my brother-in-law...yet. Wing, why don't you go downstairs and
comfort her?"
Wing raised one of her arms and hit Weston with her elbow with very little force. When Weston
pretended to be in pain, she smiled gently and went downstairs.
Hearing footsteps behind her, Molly turned and greeted, "Wing!"
Wing smiled brightly and sat next to Molly. She looked at the gate and said, "Brian went to the hospital
to get his wound cleaned."
"I...I... I wasn't looking for him."
"Hmm..." Wing sang intentionally and soon she burst into laughter. She changed the topic of
conversation and talked to Molly casually for a while. Then she asked suddenly, "Molly, if some issues
happen between you and Brian again, will you leave him
?" Molly didn't know what to say.
Seeing the apparent answer on Molly's face, Wing slowly said, "There is something here that needs to
be considered carefully. After what happened at the Phoenix Mountain, do you still intend to leave him
as soon as you can? Molly, before these two incidents, Brian had not been injured for ten years. He
had not gotten injured since he finished his training!"
Molly was moved. He got shot twice, both times to protect her. Besides, she still remembered what
Tony had told her when Brian was unconscious.
"This is the latest report from our reporters. Inside information has been disclosed about the closure of
the Phoenix Mountain last week, which clearly refutes what the spokesman of the Parliament said
previously. In fact, the closure of the Phoenix Mountain was not because of the so-called black hole
emerging at the mountain, but because a royal candidate and a descendant of the Dragon Island
confronted an attack at the Phoenix Mountain. According to an insider, who does not wish to be
identified, the shell case found at the mountain was shot from a military sniper rifle. "
The breaking news on the television drew Wing and Molly's attention at once. Even Weston, who had
been staring at Wing from the third floor, hurried downstairs. They stared at the news on the television
as if their breaths were frozen by the report.
" The insider, who does not wish to be identified, further revealed that the reason why this royal
member of the Dragon Island was attacked was because of a military secret which dates back to
twenty-one years ago. The military does not want any information disclosure, so they had brazenly
carried out this attack without paying the least bit of attention to the political friendship between the two
countries. "
"How could this be?" Molly couldn't go on listening, "This was not supposed to be reported, right?"
It was like the TV station was trying to destroy itself. Generally, this kind of news would never be
reported, regardless of whether it was true or not.
Wing looked gloomy too. She said, "There is no one who can stop Brian from doing what he wants to
do ." She looked at Molly with a heavy heart. She wondered if she had done the right thing by telling
Brian to look into his own heart clearly. Now it felt like she had been too anxious to act on their hidden
feelings. At least, she realized that she should have waited for the right time.
Weston held Wing's shoulders in his arms as he knew what she was thinking. He exerted more force
on her shoulders to show his support and nodded when she looked at him. Wing felt warm in her heart
because of his silent encouragement.
While the report on the incident at the Phoenix Mountain still played on the news, Molly looked
increasingly worried. She frowned and she felt like she was missing something. And then she asked,
"Was Eric at the Phoenix Mountain that day?"
Wing nodded slightly.
Molly's pupils dilated. She thought, 'Why haven't I been told about that?'
Molly was in a daze for a while, and then she picked up the phone which was lying by the side of the
sofa and dialed a number. Eric's cellphone could not be reached. She thought for a while, and then
dialed Brian's number.
He picked up the phone after only two rings. Brian's deep and magnetic voice was somewhat soft when
he spoke, "Mol?"
"Where...where are you?" Molly was a nervous wreck as she spoke into the phone, "Have you seen the
news report?"
"Yes."
"Yes?" 'That's it?' Molly did not know what to say, her mouth was still open in shock.
"Are your eyes feeling better?" Brian changed the topic and he sounded pampering, "Are you still
feeling uncomfortable?"
But Molly was not at all in the mood to care about her eyes. She repeated, "You have seen the news...
So..."
"Just leave it to me. I'll handle it," Brian interrupted Molly. His eyes turned into an ominous black shade
when he saw the man who had pushed open the door and walked in without permission. He spoke
slowly into the phone, "I have something to do here. You stay at home. I will have supper with you at
home in the evening."
Brian hung up, leaving Molly holding the phone in a state of daze. However, her previous worries were
replaced by some other emotion which was brought upon by Brian's words, 'I will have supper with you
at home'.
*
At that very moment, Emp Exchange was overwhelmed by a false sense of peace, like the one at a
battlefield right before a war broke out.
Neither Harrow nor Tony dared to say a word or even take a loud breath while they silently watched the
father-son duo at a stalemate in front of them, both of whom looked like kings. While the two of them
stared at each other without either of them willing to give in, the air around them started freezing with a
menacing chill.
"How dare you!" Richie's eyes, which were as black as obsidian, might have looked like a peaceful sea
surface, but in fact, fury was rolling underneath them.
Brian sneered and said indifferently, "I have done so much for her. How could there be anything else
that I would not dare do?"
62fb1bb41dcb31934bd49bda