Love Began with the First Meeting
Chapter 857 Extra Story 07 Of Aaron Bearing and Suffering

"Aaron," a soft and gentle voice came over from the phone,"Are you going to attend Mr. Ryan Leng's birthday party?" The girl's voice was so gentle that she must have been wearing a big smiling on her face when she was talking over the phone.

"Of course I will!" Aaron replied to her. At the same time, he entered his room.

"Great! I want to attend the party with you!" She sounded excited and eager to go to the party.

"No, thanks. I've decided to bring someone else with me," Aaron said, as he closed the bedroom door and walked straight into the bathroom. After waiting for a while, when he heard no response from the other end of the call, he sighed and continued, "Vivi, if you want to get Leng's contract for your daddy, we cannot let them know that you and I are in cahoots with each other. Do you understand?" He lowered his voice and added a more affectionate tone.

"Okay, I see..." Vivi was clearly disappointed,"Aaron, when can we be together in public? When will we stop hiding our relationship from others?"

Aaron pushed the bathroom door open and said, "It'll be soon..." He had a satisfactory smile on his face.

Vivi felt a rush of excitement to her head when Aaron gave her words of confidence. But before she could say something, she heard his voice over the phone again. "I am going to take a shower now. After that, I will have to take care of something important. It's getting late. Sweetheart, promise me that you'll go to bed early?"

"Okay, my love," Vivi answered. She didn't say what she initially wanted to tell him. After hesitating for a moment, she said good-bye to Aaron and hung up the phone.

Soon, the sound of water flowing broke the silence, and the silhouette cast on the frosted glass door was blurred by the steam of the hot water, adding a bit of mystery to his lean and strong body...

After some time, Aaron stepped out of the bathroom with only a bath towel wrapped around his waist. Water dripped from his hair onto the floor. His enviably toned body strikingly contrasted the deadpan expression he had on his face.

Aaron picked up the phone that was lying on his bedside table and dialed a number. Surprisingly it took a while before someone answered the phone on the other end. "I need some information," he said, without any greetings.

"You know the rules of XK," the voice on the other end replied. The person sounded like a robot or an automated voice-over, his tone was flat and bereft of an emotion.

"I do," Aaron answered, "I'll send it over to you soon. I hope to get your answer as soon as possible."

"Okay." As soon as their conversation ended, they both hung up, almost simultaneously.

Aaron pushed open his laptop screen and quickly sent the details of what he was looking for over an e-mail. Then he blasted some Mozart over the speakers while he lay in bed, waiting for a response from XK.

'This will be a good chance to attend the birthday party. It's time to give Mr. Ryan a surprise...' Aaron mused in his mind. He would also like to give the third young master of the Leng family a surprise gift as well. He was driven by the curiosity of how the Lengs would react to it!

At the headquarters of XK.

After Tony listened to the report and read the e-mail from Aaron, he quickly grabbed the two-way radio and tuned in to their exclusive channel. "This is headquarters calling Brian Long. Over!"

After a while, a voice replied, "Roger that. This is Brian speaking. Over." His voice sounded a little hoarse.

"Brian, Aaron Leng wants to buy information about a person named Ximena Mo. He wants it all before the birthday party of the president of the Leng Corporation. Over." Tony continued, "He mainly wants to know whether Ximena Mo contacted some unusual people or not. Over."

Brian was resting on the branch of a big tree, with an apple in his hand. It was a bright sunny day and the leaves cast a pathetic patch of shade and did nothing for the almost overwhelming humidity, it was like breathing in bath water.

Brian carefully thought about what Tony told him as he took a bite out of the apple. XK could easily gather all the information about the woman, including her parents, her grandparents and all other family members, in less than three days. But what Aaron really wanted to know was whether she had any connections with the other members of the Leng family.

"Send him the information he wants," Brian replied over the radio. He was feeling a little tired. Perhaps it was the heat. After a brief pause, he continued, "Send it to him as a gift. Over."

Tony aptly responded, "Yes, sir! Over."

"Aaron is a smart guy," Brian explained to Tony," there's no need to be specific. He will understand our meaning. Over."

Tony understood what he had meant and turned off the two-way radio.

Brian took another bite, pensively staring at the sky through the leaves. There was a sense of loneliness in him that he longed to part with. This loneliness was a vice on his heart, squeezing with just enough pressure to be a constant pain.

Even the apple tasted bland, as if he had been chewing on mush the whole time. This is what his life was like ever since Molly left. Her image would pop into his mind as soon as he wasn't preoccupied with work. He thought about the time she told him how much she loved him. It was snowing and they stayed up all night to build a snowman together.

'Molly, what is the point of living without you? Can you imagine how much I am missing you right now?'

Brian repeated the questions in his mind.

The next day in Ximena's bedroom, the morning sun fell slanting through her windows. She was still sound asleep snuggled into a soft eiderdown duvet as it caressed her cheek. "Knock Knock!"

A sharp knock on the door came in and awakened her. Having been used to living a rough life she was easily awakened by the slightest of sounds. She opened her eyes blankly at first, whipping her head around. After she realized where she was, all the thoughts of what happened yesterday came rushing into her mind.

"Knock Knock!"

This time the knock sounded quick and impatient.

Ximena rushed out of bed immediately. She grabbed the bath-robe from the chair next to her bed and ran to the door, barefooted.

Ximena was greeted by a woman in her thirties, dressed in a black suit with white laced collar, standing at the door. She stared at Ximena arrogantly for a while as if to observe her and then said, "Mr. Leng has arrange for the etiquette training courses and he's asked you to come downstairs in ten minutes to attend the class."?? Having seen the disappointment on her face, the woman lowered her disdainful voice and said, "You mustn't be late because Mr. Leng does not like to be kept waiting