Love Began with the First Meeting
Chapter 966 Extra Story 104 Of Aaron Loved

Aaron stopped walking as soon as he heard Ximena's question. Looking at her face with his deep set eyes, he didn't know what or how to answer her. Had he loved her? He knew that he had, and he still did, strongly. And it was the exact reason why he wanted to start a family with her. He loved her, he truly did. That was the exact reason why he wanted to make up for the heinous crime his mother had done to her and her family. Truly, he wanted to live together with her despite the pain brought by the emotional abuse she had applied to him.

Without waiting for Aaron's answer, Ximena closed her eyes, snuggled to his arms and buried her face into his chest.

Seeing that, Aaron somehow felt a tinge of sadness in his heart. Ximena looked so vulnerable and sad. After taking a deep breath, Aaron took another step again, and brought Ximena to her bedroom. Softly, he put her on the bed and then went to the bathroom. With a wet towel, he walked back to the bed, sat by the side of it and wiped his lover's beautiful face. He made sure that he did everything in a soft and gentle manner.

When he got to her hands, Aaron held it tightly in his, while saying, "Ximena, I believe that your heart could tell you whether I love you or not. The reason why I've never talked about that is not because I'm unwilling to say that, but because I'm afraid you would leave the moment I say that..." He paused, taking in a deep breath. "I'm not sure which kind of answer you want to hear, so I don't want to talk about that."

With his eyes filled with sadness, he sighed. Gently, he put Ximena's hand back on the bed, and stood up, intending to go back to the bathroom and return the wet towel. However, before he was able to leave, Ximena grasped his hand all of a sudden. When Aaron turned his head back to look at the woman on the bed, he was surprised to see her already sitting up. With a need to explain himself more, Aaron opened his mouth to say something but he was disrupted when Ximena pulled him by his neck and gave him a deep, passionate kiss on the lips.

Greatly surprised, Aaron could do anything else but close his eyes and savor the woman's soft lips. After a few moments, he was already taking the lead on their hot lip locking. Since Ximena's abortion, their love making had drastically decreased as compared with before. A long time had already passed and she hadn't got pregnant. For the past one year, Ximena had hated Aaron earnestly, though subconsciously. The wound in her heart could not be relieved by their passionate embrace at night.

For the many times he had gone to sleep with Ximena in his arms at night, Aaron had been eagerly praying for a child of his to sprout in her body. He thought that perhaps nothing but a child would be able to defuse the feud between their families and to make her slowly forget the resentment in her heart.

However, because of her abortion and the high fever she had a little after that, her chance of getting pregnant again had been reduced significantly. How could he make her pregnant?

At that thought, Aaron held Ximena tighter and closer to him. He knew that she hadn't fallen asleep yet, but he didn't say a word and just held her in his arms silently.

Feeling Aaron's tight embrace, Ximena, who was not sleepy at all, opened her eyes and stared into the darkness of the room. What the wife of the political commissar of the island had said to her lingered on her mind, but the report on her parents' accident swung back and forth in her mind too. Without a clear train of thought, she felt like the love and hatred that were inside her trapped her in a sticky spiderweb, and she was not able to escape from that.

It didn't matter if she left or not. She would inevitably feel pain.

Perhaps it was because Aaron felt the sorrow spreading from Ximena's body that he also started to feel despair, and a frown was beginning to show up on his face. Slowly, he opened his eyes and looked at the woman lying next to him. The pleasant fragrance of her hair made his heart happy, but the feelings she was having made him extremely uncomfortable and sad.

'Ximena, what can I do to help you leave the past behind? How long will it take me to get rid of the painful memory?' he thought.

Right after these thoughts came in his mind, he started sneering at himself, a bitter smile slowly forming in the corners of his lips.

Time flew by. In a blink of an eye, half a year had already passed. Nobody seemed to notice. Aaron and Ximena had entered a vicious cycle. Both of them were increasingly confused about their relationship, but neither of them was strong enough to walk out and leave everything.

"The Leng's Corporations is going to host a business party at its LW Hotel tonight. It will be the first party for the group since Aaron Leng became the CEO of the Leng's Corporations. Because of this, the party has drawn the attention of almost all enterprises in the island. Politicians and celebrities alike feel proud of being invited by the Leng's Corporations. Also, according to a source, a top executive from Grand Night Casino will attend the said party tonight..."

The morning news in QY Island were all about the Leng's Corporations. Everybody was paying close attention to the company's party that would be held that evening, because Aaron had not only greatly helped the economic development in QY Island, but also pushed the tourist industry in the area into unprecedented levels primarily by introducing Grand Night Casino. Meanwhile, the amusement park that Dragon Empire Group invested in, which was about to be completed as the largest one in the world, had also been focused on at the global arena.

Because of all of those achievements, nobody remembered the inside problem of the Leng's Corporations two years ago. What everybody cared about was that how the current situation was advantageous to them.

That evening, the party was held at "Vanity Dream", a themed restaurant in LW Hotel. The hotel was always the first choice for rich people who traveled to QY Island, not only because of its high end and elegant decoration, but also because it was famous for its four themed restaurants. The moment they eat in any of these restaurants, they just forget everything that was troubling them and enjoy the place's quietness and peace for a while.

Among the four themed restaurants, "Vanity Dream" was the best known one. Correspondingly, it was the most expensive one, and it was always difficult to make a reservation there. The whole restaurant could be divided into two parts. In addition to the the ship-shaped two-storey building above the ground, there was also a transparent underwater restaurant, which was made with anti-seismic bulletproof tempered glass with a thickness of eight inches. The internal decoration of the building was white, interspersed by all kinds of blue decorations. With the help of the light reflecting and refracting and with the fishes swimming on the other side of the glass, the guests would feel like they were truly under the sea. As many reviews said, it made people forget about time, and their own personal dilemmas. In "Vanity Dream", a crowd of people could be seen raising their glasses to one another and having a toast. As the CEO of the Leng's Corporations, Aaron became the person every guest wanted to talk to, including politicians, businessmen, celebrities, and people who had underlying motive. However, as usual, Aaron gave out a cold aura that prevented strangers from thinking about approaching him. Because of that, people only mainly greeted him and struck small talks with him before they left and searched for the next talk to.