Love Began with the First Meeting

Maggie sat up abruptly.

With a sneer, Edgar said, "You'd better restrain yourself. Otherwise you may not be so lucky next time." After saying that, he took a slightly disdainful glance at Maggie. Then he turned around, intending to walk from the room. However, he stopped in his tracks and turned back. Turning his head slightly to glance sideways at the girl who was glaring at him, he said, "Don't forget the ten kilometers' run."

Gritting her teeth, Maggie clenched her hands tightly into two fists, in order to restrain the fury in her body which was about to explode. With her eyes wide open, she glared at Edgar's strapping back as if to burn it into her memory. She held a burning fury in her blazing eyes until he disappeared from sight. "Ah..." Maggie roared in a low, but restrained tone. Then she let herself fall back on the sickbed.

She was all right now. The mild headache had dissipated. Besides, a minor discomfort didn't matter to a little Eagle who needed to be tempered. Fortunately, Daniel had arranged smoke survival training for them previously. Otherwise, she might not have survived the burning inferno of the laboratory.

All of a sudden, Maggie's eyes widened again as something about the laboratory suddenly occurred to her. Immediately, she sat up and tensely looked around. However, she didn't see what she was looking for and started to feel anxious. In a hurry, she threw back the quilt covering her and scrambled out of the bed. Without even donning slippers, she hastily searched the room for the stack of documents which she was missing. When she had finally made sure that they were not in the room, she felt very disappointed and her face took on a desperate look.

"Excuse me!"

somebody's voice came through the door. Despite her terrible mental state, Maggie glanced slightly in the direction of the door. Sulkily, she answered, "Come in!"

Several people walked in as the door was pushed open from the outside. Maggie looked up to see Elijah and the other three students of the technical instruction team. They all gave her a formal military salute.

This was because they were in the General Military Hospital now. Although Maggie didn't think of them as her subordinates, despite their lower military ranks, their words and actions might be heard or seen by others at any time while they were here. Therefore, observing military protocol regarding the address of a superior officer was necessary, at least on this occasion.

"What brings you all here?"

Maggie felt her mood improve a little when she saw her colleagues.

"Madam," Garth grinned. "The senior captain asked us to see you and bring you back to the base from the hospital."

He kept averting her angry eyes as he spoke.

Displeased, Maggie could not help but roll her eyes at him. Her face began twitching as soon as she heard Garth mention Edgar. In a sarcastic tone, she asked, "Well, that's new. I didn't think kindness was one of his virtues as well."

As she said that, she suddenly remembered that she had been looking for something before they came in. Looking at Elijah, she asked, "Elijah, where are my documents?"

While uttering these words, her eyebrows twisted tightly, and a desperate eagerness could be seen in her eyes. She was anxious to know whether those documents had survived the fire.

"Your documents are all right," Jake answered before Elijah was able to. Immediately, admiration and even a slight envy appeared on his face. He continued, "Maggie, maybe you don't remember what happened? When the senior captain ran into the laboratory to rescue you, he saw you were holding the documents tightly in your arms, and then..." Jake paused all of a sudden.

'Then what?' Maggie wondered in her heart.

She looked at Jake curiously, waiting for him to continue. However, Jake didn't seem intent on continuing with what he had originally wanted to say.

"Then he..." Jake paused again. The corners of his mouth twitched. It was not until he looked at Elijah, who tugged at his uniform, and then at Garth, who glared at him coldly, that he finished his sentence slowly, "Then he carried you and your documents from the fire." Hearing Jake's explanation, Maggie could not help but curl her lips. She had a deep feeling of loss, as if she had been expecting to hear something else, but her expectations had come to naught.

When they saw that Maggie was all right now, the three students who had gone to the basic level unit together with her began talking to her about whatever came to their minds. After a while, they all left the room except for Edith, who stayed at the ward to help Maggie pack up and change clothes.

"By the way, Edith, did the senior captain go into the fire alone?" Maggie asked Edith quite innocently, despite her heart being in confusion. Edith seemed quite bewildered at the mere mention of the fire.

As soon as she heard Maggie's question, her eyes glimmered brightly. In a hurry, she set the articles in her hands on the sickbed and walked to Maggie. With a smile consuming her mouth and adoration in her eyes, she said, "Maggie, as someone who has grown up in a military family based in a military region, I have seen a lot of soldiers. However, I have never seen so manly a man as Captain Edgar!" While she said this, Edith's face displayed a spectrum of mixed feelings. She was too absorbed in her own fantasies to notice some equally complicated emotions spilling over Maggie's eyes. "He rushed into the burning laboratory alone, saying that he might be hindered if anybody else entered the scene of the fire too. While everyone's heart was racing in their chests, he came out with you... you and your documents cradled in his arms. And when he came out, his oxygen mask was over your face. As you know, you can't rescue someone when your own safety is not guaranteed. But he risked his own safety to save your life. Besides, he also..."

Edith's behavior seemed odd. Maggie could not help but look at Edith in exasperation and ask, "He also, what?"

They were acting so weird. Maggie could not help but look at Edith in exasperation and ask, "He also what?!" Earlier on, Maggie noticed how Elijah and Garth had silenced Jake. Moreover, Edith's hesitation to speak her mind was starting to become frustrating.

"He rescued you out of the fire," Edith said with a stiff smile at the corners of her mouth. "You had lost consciousness by then. We were all scared to see you like that. We feared the worst. Maggie, I want to tell you a secret," she shifted the topic of the conversation all of a sudden. With a shy blush creeping onto her face, she continued, "Well, I want to pursue the senior captain and make him my lover."

Almost immediately, Maggie felt her heart skip a beat. She tried her best to keep her calm and not let on any sign of her disquiet. With a false smile on her lips, she asked, "Don't you know that

he's fourteen years older than you."

"For a great relationship between a man and a woman," Edith said while clenching her hands into fists over her chest and immersing herself into her own fantasy before continuing breathlessly, "age doesn't matter, neither do differences in rank. Have you ever paid attention to the senior captain's perfect appearance? He's so handsome with such a rugged appeal and, oh, his stature, his physical strength, and... Aha..."

She didn't finish her sentence, but Maggie could easily guess what she was going to say based on the lewd smile dancing on her face. Without a conscious thought, the corners of Maggie's mouth twitched downwards. She wasn't happy to hear this. 00000000000000