Love Began with the First Meeting
Chapter 940 Extra Story 78 Of Aaron Happiness

When she had woken up in the morning and had found that the cold, hard jade seal had turned into this beautiful bracelet around her wrist, she had felt incredibly happy. Perhaps she was happy because he had not given up on her. He had put much thought into it by giving the jade seal to her in another form.

She had lived at the bottom of the society for so long a time that she was afraid of going back to that dark life again.

"Aaron, thank you..." Ximena mumbled; her words sounded so empty. Hearing her, Aaron's hands froze on his keyboard. She continued in a low voice, "My relationship with James was too flatulent and unreal. It was not so much that I loved him, as I hoped that someone would take me away from that shitty life. Because of that, I believed firmly in our love."

Hearing her self-analysis of the past, Aaron's eyes were covered with a dark cloud. "What about me?" he asked. 'Ximena, if you dare say a word I might not like listening to, I will kill you myself, ' he thought.

With a faint smile on her lips, Ximena withdrew her gaze from the window and looked at Aaron. She answered, "Your Highness, you have been the king of darkness for so long, and now, you've become the CEO of Leng's Corporations, the master of light for millions. What should such a man mean to me?"

Aaron's handsome face was overcast with a layer of bloody haze. With a sneer on his lips, he said slowly, "It should mean that I am the one who can take you to paradise or push you into hell any time I wish."

"Yes, you could..." Ximena said with an enchanting smile. "And yet, you gave me this." She raised her wrist and shook the bracelet. It sparkled in the rays of the sun that entered the car.

Aaron glanced at the bracelet and then looked at Ximena. With a smile, she said, "Maybe we..." She paused as her smile became brighter. At that moment, the car stopped in front of her fashion design shop. Ximena shrugged and said, "We're here." She gave Aaron an attractive smile once again and got off the car arrogantly.

Aaron's face turned stony. As he watched her walk away from him arrogantly, Aaron felt the urge to pull her back into the car. 'That woman is annoying like hell. How dare she make fun of me!' he thought.

The air inside the car could not have been colder. Turning his head to take a final look at Ximena, who had already entered the shop, Ken grinned privately and asked, "Your Highness, are we going straight to the east coastline or to the company?" Ximena's shop was only a street away from Leng's Corporations. The properties in this area were extremely expensive, yet Aaron had given her a building with two floors which had a total area of about four hundred square meters for her customized tailoring. As an investment plan, it was not at all cost-effective.

"To the company," Aaron said shortly, as he withdrew his sight from the shop. He looked at the stock market analysis chart on the screen, but he couldn't process any information in his head. He was distracted.

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Seeing Ximena, her employees rushed to greet her and question her about her health. After a while, the shop manager came to her with two designs. While pointing at the drawings with his finger, he said, "Miss Mo, these are the final sketches for Mrs. Zhao and Mrs. Li. Mrs. Li wants a slit here and Mrs. Zhao wants a round collar."

"All right. I'll change them," Ximena replied as she took the sketches from the manager. She walked into her office. She hadn't been here for many days. As soon as she entered, her spirits returned to her at once.

She grabbed her pencil and unfolded the sketches. After taking a quick look at the previous sketches, she began designing the dresses again according to the client's new requirements. Unlike the uneasy mental state she had been in yesterday, her mind was much peaceful today, like still water without any ripples. She thought of nothing but the sketches under her pencil.

She modified the two sketches quickly. The new designs had a vitality in them which hadn't been there before. She was quite satisfied. With a smile, she took out her cellphone and called Mrs. Zhao and Mrs. Li in succession. "I have just modified the designs according to your requirements. You may come and have a look at it when you replace time. If you're satisfied, the design can be finalized and we can begin tailoring."

Very soon, Mrs. Li and Mrs. Zhao arrived at the shop. When they saw the new designs, their eyes went wide. They told her that the new designs were beautiful and graceful. If it had not been for Aaron, they would not have come to Ximena's shop at all. They had not been very satisfied with the designs they had been given previously, so they had come today to replace some faults in her. To their surprise, Ximena's modification was so satisfying that they were dumbfounded. Both of them decided to be her loyal customers from then on. Neither Mrs. Li nor Mrs. Zhao knew that the previous designs had been sketched by Ximena when she had been in a lousy mood. Now her mental state was bright. Of course, her work would be different.

A person's mood and state of mind could greatly affect their artwork. No matter what work you do, when you were happy and hopeful about your future, the end result would show it.

Standing at the balcony on the second floor with a cup of coffee in her hand, Ximena looked at the cars speeding on the road below. Gradually, a smile appeared at the corners of her lips. As she lowered her gaze to look at the bracelet around her wrist, she became slightly absent-minded.

She thought, 'Aaron, maybe we can't ever be family, but even so, I don't want to leave you. And that is not because you are capable of taking me to heaven or hell. What I want is to stay by your side and to feel the happiness that I am feeling today. Perhaps one day, our relationship will end. But, I would still want to stay by your side, even though we might hate each other for some ridiculous reason in the future.'

When the unfinished words she had uttered before she had gotten off his car came to her mind, a sly smile appeared on her face once again. She put the cup of coffee on a table and picked up her cellphone. She quickly dialed Aaron's number. The phone kept ringing, but no one picked up. Ximena frowned slightly.

She called him again. Finally, the phone was picked up after a few rings.

"Aaron..."

"Who's this?"

the voices spoke simultaneously from both ends of the line.

Ximena's eyebrows twisted tightly together. 'Why is a woman answering Aaron's phone?' she thought, gritting her teeth.

"Who are you?" Ximena asked. She pulled a long face, and her eyes were filled with fury, without even realizing herself that she was pissed as hell.

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