Love Began with the First Meeting

"Yeah, we have to bite the bullet in order to steal his technique!"

After Maggie listened to Edgar's whole explanation, her mouth couldn't help trembling, since she came to realize that their bond was the real purpose.

As Maggie imagined, it was the real reason why Edgar had brought her here. Besides, the supervisor had also taken it into account by permitting the three-day vacation. Of course, it was Edgar's selfish motives which had seized the opportunity and contributed to this private bonding time with Maggie.

It was a long story to tell. When Edgar returned after peace-making, he had heard that Addison had finally worked out how to alter the firing range under Shirley's guidance. Edgar had conceived the idea of stealing the updated technique, but there was no reason to justify this move considering his identity as the leader of the Eagle. With the bond between him and Maggie strengthening in leaps and bounds, and the phone call from Molly to ask about his present situation, this trip to Dragon Island was a natural consequence. Molly knew quite clearly what Brian thought. Of course, Edgar was no exception, since they had lived together in the same yard from an early age, not to mention that he had previously had feelings for her. It was highly likely that Maggie's personality would resonate with Molly, which was why Edgar brought her to Dragon Island. However, Molly would also have an understanding of the biggest roadblock stopping Maggie. As a result, Addison's technical achievement had become the present that Molly hoped to give to Maggie. Although this present would not be given to her all neat and wrapped up with a bow, Maggie could figure out the details based on Addison's instruction, Wyatt's display and her own hands-on feelings to continue her explorations.

Maggie was greatly delighted due to the breakthrough made from Addison's work, and therefore, despite her dissatisfaction with Edgar's tricks, the reason for their trip was understandable. The ultimate goal was to resolve what she had always been concerned about. Edgar was nowhere to be found after one night's stay. Molly accompanied Maggie to visit some prestigious tourist attractions of Dragon Island. The present Dragon Island was ever evolving, compared to the island when Richie had been in residence, in terms of regions being used effectively and the massive growth of population, which was a marked difference from the previous semi-closed style of community. By means of the visitor counts, tourism had already become one of the top ten pillar industries of Dragon Island. Three days passed quickly with Edgar's busy schedule and Maggie's exuberance for fun. When the plane took off towards the sky with a great booming, Maggie suddenly had a bout of regret that time had flown so fast.

She had previously deemed Molly as her imaginary enemy. However, after spending these past days in her company and discovering her and Brian's love story, Maggie came to realize why Edgar loved her so much. Sadly, due to their time limits, she was not able to learn more about the details of their romance.

Feeling slightly dizzy and sleepy on the trip back, Maggie returned to the snow-clad S City from the warm Dragon Island where flowers still blossomed. Stepping from that warmth into a winter land covered in cold ice, Maggie felt a sense of surreal fantasy. Drawing her down jacket closer, Maggie couldn't help shuddering, and turned to Edgar saying, "Aren't you feeling cold?"

He smiled and hugged her to pass along some warmth to her through his own body. "I previously made it through a winter long-range raid which was much harsher than this. So I can manage to tolerate a little chill now."

"Iron skin!" Maggie teased and cuddled up to Edgar for more of his warmth. "It must have been so excruciating to have extra military drills under such inhospitable weather."

Hearing her grumbling, Edgar kept smiling and hugged her even closer, looking around before saying, "We should have taken a bus to return home rather than asking Mom to pick us up. This is risky weather to drive in!" Maggie rolled her eyes to show her disagreement. "The driver is highly proficient." As an experienced driver for William, the man who drove her mom had not had any car accidents within ten years of driving.

While Maggie appeared to be proud, Edgar suddenly sensed something unnatural and frowning looked up from her smiling lips. He had sensed something at the periphery of his awareness. It raised the hairs at the back of his neck. His lips were framing words of reply when he suddenly stopped as his smile faded away. Turning, he scanned the area around them like a cheetah searching for a threat. Barely, he had seen a disturbing face in the crowd. In the hustle and bustle, the murderous look which had alerted him had already disappeared.

Looking around, Edgar found nobody suspicious in the crowd. However, the impressively ferocious, yet indistinct face still lingered in his mind. As a military soldier who had always lived in the army, he was one hundred percent sure that the face had been targeting

someone.

However, at this moment, he couldn't tell whether the animosity was targeted at him or Maggie.

Squeak! The wheels equipped with tire chains emitted an unique sound when they pressed down on the snow. Edgar felt Maggie move a little so he turned to look at the far end of the parking lot where he noticed Hana lowering the car window to hail them to get into the car. They hurried through the snow fall where Edgar opened the door for Maggie, before looking around to make sure there was no one following. Then he also climbed into the car.

The car drove slowly, while Edgar still monitored the people outside one by one with his keen eyes, but nothing strange or out of place could be seen. However, the restlessness burrowed into his heart.

While Hana and Maggie were having a chit chat, Edgar seemed to be a little bit absent-minded in giving his replies.

Hana smiled broadly, "William asked me to buy some mutton for the hot pot. It's perfect on such a chilly day. After dinner, the driver will take you back to school."

Edgar turned to look at Hana and explained apologetically, "Mom, we're not going back. It's only an hour before Maggie has to report to the army. She will be late if we finish our dinner at home. That would be against army regulations."

Hearing the refusal, Hana froze momentarily, but put on smile again after sensing Maggie's exceptional anticipation. "You're already an instructor, the person in charge. Does it matter if you are late for an hour or two?"

Edgar restated quietly, "That's the exact reason why she isn't allowed to be late." Nowadays, there was much gossip about him and Maggie on the campus. In his position, only if he was even stricter with Maggie, could she be spared the pain of being commented on by someone who didn't even know them.

From his perspective, he was okay no matter what others said about him. However, Maggie was his wife, and no one was allowed to spread lies about her. For him i I was a far worse punishment to hear criticism about her than about himself.

Maggie didn't have any realization of this at first, but after hearing what Edgar said, she rushed to comfort Hana, "Mom, isn't there only one month before the Spring Festival? We'll have days off then. We will just have to look forward to your home-made mutton hot pot until then."

As the wife of an army man, Hana could understand Edgar's concern, so she made a compromise by nodding, and asked the driver to take them back to the school.