Love Began with the First Meeting
Chapter 892 Extra Story 36 Of Aaron Resentment

Lying on her side of the soft bed, Ximena placed both her hands under her cheek. Her weak and glazed eyes blinked lightly. Something entrenched in her mind and she could not concentrate.

Sighing slightly, she gave up thinking. Instead, she closed her eyes and forced herself to fall asleep. However, as soon as she closed her eyes, Aaron's sight during that stalemate against her came to her mind. It looked so vivid. The experience haunted her and the thought of it sent shivers down her spine.

"Gosh!"

She gasped as she was almost mad. She wondered why she kept on thinking about Aaron every day instead of James. Not able to believe herself, she didn't know how this happened.

All of a sudden, she opened her eyes. Like a bear with a sore head, she looked up with her eyes wide open, but her gaze fell on the bathroom! What Aaron and she had done in the bathroom that day came to her mind all at once. "Ah-"

annoyed, Ximena screamed. Then she closed her eyes again, trying her best to prevent herself from thinking of anything.

After a while, it seemed that she succeeded. Due to both physical and mental fatigue, her head became turbid and her thoughts stopped gradually. She had fallen asleep and slumbered into a dream.

In her dream, somebody held her into his arms softly and kept mumbling some words by the side of her ears. That man seemed to have a heavy heart, which made him unprecedentedly confused, hesitant and uneasy. His words sounded soft yet hesitant. He was not sure what to do. He kept mumbling to her ears.

A teardrop spilled over her closed eyes and slid along her face down on the pillow, spreading on the pillowcase immediately. Gradually, Ximena curled herself up feeling cold without a quilt to cover her. She was confused about whether the cold was due to the atmosphere inside the room or was caused by the sadness deep in her heart. Her mind returned back to more than a dozen years ago when she had been fighting against stray dogs and stray cats for food in the dark alleys.

Shivering as tears continued to fall down her eyes, Ximena hugged herself and sobbed all her nightmares away.

In the night, it was quiet in the hospital subordinate to the Leng's Corporations. It was dark everywhere except for the safety light and the dim light at the nurse station.

"Ding!"

The sound of the elevator sounded especially loud in the empty corridor. The door of the elevator opened slowly, revealing Aaron's cold face, which did not show any emotion.

He raised his eyes slowly to look ahead. After taking a pause for a moment, he got out of the elevator and walked towards the VIP wards in steady steps.

His shoes skidded on the floor, creating a rhythmic sound, which would not stop until he stopped his footsteps. Reaching the room, he stood in front of the door. Looking at the closed door in front of him, Aaron's mind was battling his heart whether to go in or not. Meanwhile, his sharp eyes became deep and bottomless, as if they were mixed together with the dark night. He was still hesitant and was not sure whether it was right for him to come here.

Finally, he stretched one of his hands and rotated the doorknob gently. Every move seemed heavy. As soon as he opened the door, the rhythmic sound of medical instruments inside the room came to his ears. Wall lamps gave out dim light, in which the skin of the person in the sickbed looked even gloomier.

Aaron walked towards the bed slowly. Standing by the side of the sickbed, he looked down at the patient. Different from the look Aaron had seen last time at his birthday party, now Aldrich's face looked deathly pale, no longer domineering as had been before. Seeing that, Aaron sneered at him coldly. Inside his mind, there were two totally different emotions fighting against each other. Looking at Aldrich with his complicated sight, he said slowly, "I only come to take a last look at you, and to see how you die." His cold words sounded chilly and contained the hatred he didn't notice by himself. He didn't think he hated Aldrich that much. He thought he should have no feeling towards him. However, that kind of hatred had followed him since he had remembered things that happened in the past and had been imprinted in his bones ever since.

Gradually, the coldness on Aaron's face cracked. Then, he knotted his dashing eyebrows tightly, while indistinct sorrow appeared in his cruel eyes. "The Leng's Corporations, which you have created by hard work, has fallen into my hands. Don't you plan to open your eyes and have a look?" Taking a pause to calm down, he gritted his teeth tightly. Then he continued, "Don't you want to see how your three dear sons surrender submissively to me and give me the Leng's Corporations you have created?"

Annoyance could be heard in his voice. In the quiet room, the sound of the cardiac rhythm instrument seemed to accompany his words, which kept ringing in a mild frequency while it was increasingly difficult for him to control his emotions and stay calm. Standing outside the room, Gale was looking at the person that was standing inside the room through the visit window. Seeing the scene inside, he could not help but sigh deeply. They had always known the existence of Aaron and they even had once thought of looking for him. If their mother hadn't objected to their opinion at that time, perhaps things would not have gone on this way.

Gale lowered his eyes to look at the thing he held in his hand and then at the person inside together with his father. He thought for a while and then turned around and went to the nurse station. "When that man gets out of the room, please give this to him," he said to a nurse.

The nurse took it over respectfully and answered, "Yes, CEO."

With a faint smile, Gale said, "I'm no longer the CEO of the Leng's Corporations."

"..." Shocked at what she had heard, the nurse opened her mouth but didn't know what to say. She only looked at Gale speechlessly.

In return, Gale smiled at her, as if he was telling her that he didn't care about that. Then he turned around and left the hospital. When he passed by the room again, he could not help but took one last look.

Aaron didn't know how long he had stayed in the room. Moments later, he decided to left, walked to the elevator with a cold face and pressed the down button. The nurse ran to him in a hurry and gave him the thing left by Gale.

Seeing the thing, Aaron's face grew expressionless. He just took the thing over and walked into the elevator with his cold face. As soon as the door of the elevator closed, the cardiac rhythm instrument in Aldrich's room began sounding in an alert. All of a sudden, everybody in the nurse station rushed towards the room and began to respond to the emergency.

At the same time, Aaron arrived at the parking lot. Throwing the thing given by Gale onto the front passenger seat, he started the car, and headed to his villa.

Standing by the side of Ximena's bed and looking down at her, who was curling herself because of her dreadful dream, Aaron wore a faint smile at the corners of his mouth, which he was not aware of. He had been unwilling to see that man because he had been tired after hating or resenting him for so many years.

However, when he had held Ximena in his arms a while ago and talked about the load which had been long on his mind, suddenly he had felt it urgent to have a look at him. Pulling all his strength, he had dragged himself to the hospital and swallowed his pride and hatred. He had had a look at his father, even though he had known he might annoy him to death right away.

Looking at the thing Gale had given him, he threw the thing in his hand to somewhere carelessly, turned around and walked into the bathroom. Soon the sound of water sprinkling from the shower head came through. Standing under the shower head, Aaron let the water flap on his wheat-colored skin. At that moment, he felt unprecedentedly at ease.

After taking the shower, Aaron lifted the quilt beside Ximena and slid into the bed in an indifferent manner. Sensing Aaron's presence, Ximena had a mumble out of uneasiness. With a faint smile, he shook his head, stretched his long arms to hold her into his arms. The night grew deep and the two of them enjoyed each other's warmth drowning all their worries and doubts away. Aaron closed his eyes and breathed in Ximena's sweet scent, with that he felt at peace.