Chapter 129 Childhood Romance
Chapter 129 Childhood Romance
"I saw a little girl who was about seven or eight years old... Oh my god...Ha ha ha..." Rachel couldn't Belongs to NôvelDrama.Org - All rights reserved.
help bursting into a loud guffaw as she read the first sentence.
Hiram frowned at Rachel and grabbed the letter out of her hands successfully this time. 'What's so
funny?' he thought as he unfolded the letter.
"What are you doing?! Give it back!" Rachel quickly reached her hand out to take it back. But Hiram
was too strong for her. He could use one hand to ward off Rachel while reading the letter quickly with
the other.
After he read enough of the contents, he quickly rolled it into a ball. It was the only love letter he had
ever written. Rachel unfortunately found it, and the best thing for him to do was to destroy it and throw
it out. If Rachel read the whole letter, she might get jealous or create other problems.
"Stop! If you destroy it, I will go back home right now and you will have to sleep alone tonight!" Rachel
threatened, seeing that he was about to rip the letter into shreds.
She glared at him as she crossed her arms.
When she saw that he didn't take any further action, Rachel hastily moved forward and took it back
from his hand. "Why do you react so violently?" she complained. "It's just a love letter. Anyone who has
ever liked a girl or a boy in his or her lifetime has written at least one such letter. Why can't I read it?"
Rachel unfolded the letter again and smoothed the wrinkles on it. She held it to the light and read it out
loud mockingly. She didn't look at Hiram but from the corner of her eye she saw Hiram looking sullen.
"I like listening to the jingle of small bells in her every move. She is like an angel flying into my world.
Her smile is very sweet, and she is so different from other girls that I've seen or met... But it seems that
she doesn't like me... She throws little stones at me every time she sees me... Ha ha... Ahh ha ha..."
Rachel couldn't resist bursting into laughter. She couldn't control herself. "Hiram! You didn't like
obedient girls but liked the girl who threw stones at you. Are you a masochist?"
Her laughter echoed for a while, then she eventually stopped laughing.
'Wait! Let me think. The girl was about seven or eight years old?
Why do I remember that I liked throwing little stones at a tall boy when I was little?' Rachel thought.
The reason why Rachel liked to hurt the boy was because she knew that the boy was a member of
Rong family.
Although she didn't know who the boy was at that time, Rachel hated him when she saw him walk out
of the Rong family house.
Even as a child, She didn't like the Rong family because her grandfather had told her that she would be
married off to a man from the Rong family when she grew up. Her young mind told her that she didn't
want to get married. Thus she threw little stones at the boy whom she knew she would marry when
they reached adulthood...
Small bells? Rachel could remember that her father once bought her a pair of bracelets during his
business trip. There were small bells on the bracelets. She knew they were bracelets but she still liked
to wear them around the ankles. She could hear the jingle of the bells when she walked around...
XH Village was not large. The house of the Rong family was not far away from the house of the Ruan
family. It was not that close either. For the children who grew up in that area, the house of the Rong
family was special, strange and mysterious.
Children always liked mysterious things, so they liked to play near the house of the Rong family.
"Why did you stop laughing? I thought that maybe you'd laugh the whole night." Hiram looked at her.
Though laughing heartily just a moment earlier, she now looked nearly frozen, deep in thought.
He then saw Rachel fold the letter neatly and tuck it into her pocket carefully. Her behavior was odd.
She was also looking at him oddly.
"Okay, why did you put it away carefully? Do you plan to use it to blackmail me and humiliate me next
time? It's not gonna work, you know." 'Is it necessary to put away the letter so carefully as if the letter is
important evidence?' he thought. Hiram tried to frown but couldn't help smiling.
Hiram wrote the letter when he was about eleven or twelve years old. Although he had seen a lot of
girls at that time, he only liked the girl who threw stones at him. Maybe it was because of the "special
treatment" he received from her. He somehow wrote the letter but he didn't send it to the girl.
While he was thinking, Hiram heard Rachel's low but excited voice.
"It's the first love letter I have received. Of course I should save it carefully!" Rachel said with a
mysterious smile while she patted her pocket.
Hearing her words, his smile froze on his lips. "What did you say?"
"Nothing! I said nothing!" Rachel took off her shoes, got on the bed, undressed and put her clothes on
the shelf.
She lay on the bed. But before she found a comfortable position, Hiram jumped on top of her. He ran
his hands on the sides of her body to support his weight. Then he gazed at her and said, "Rachel, let
me think. It seemed that you hated me when we first met.
Can you tell me the reason why you hated me?"
Hiram was clever enough to quickly realize what Rachel was talking about.
Hiram's look was right onto Rachel's face. Rachel shifted her eyes from Hiram's handsome face and
said, "Um, that was because my grandfather told me that I would be married off to a man from the
Rong family. At that time, I didn't ever want to get married. So naturally as I thought about it more, I
came to hate the Rong family..."
"So, you threw stones at me whenever you saw me?" Hiram asked to make it clear once and for all. It
made sense that the girl was furious when she saw him.
It was because she was afraid of marrying him!
Rachel slowly moved her eyes, studying his face. She looked into his bright eyes, raised her eyebrows
and said, "Children are innocent. They express their feelings without reservations. If they like
something, it will reflect in their behavior. It's the same when they dislike something."
She barely finished her words when Hiram kissed her passionately. Then he said excitedly, "Babe, I'm
very happy to find out just now that you were that girl I met in my childhood. It means that the only two
people who have won my heart in my lifetime are one and the same. It's you, Babe..."
Rachel was speechless. Hiram got really excited. There was no doubt that they made intense love that
night.
The next morning
Rachel was still in a dream state but Hiram was shaking and pulling on her to get up. She still felt tired
from their 'activity' the previous night, so she covered her ears and tried to fall back into sleep.
"My dear wife, I'll go back to H City now. If you still feel tired, you can sleep. I'm flying to America this
afternoon. It will be a long flight but I'll call you as soon as I arrive there..." Hiram removed her hands
from her ears and whispered.
Rachel nodded with her eyes still closed. She was tired so she needed more sleep.
Hiram quietly left the room and closed the door.
At around noon, Rachel woke up. She opened her eyes and looked around. After she found that Hiram
had gone, she remembered what he said before he left.
'He said he was going to America. Is he going to find Lydia?' she thought.
—
Washington, D.C., USA
"Mr. Hiram, I'm glad to see you back."
"Mr. Hiram, good evening!"
"Mr. Hiram, your room has been cleaned and ready for you! Here, let me take your luggage."
As soon as he got off the plane, Hiram went straight to the villa in Washington, D.C. owned by the
Rong family. It was close to the sea and the village wasn't far away either, so it was quiet and had
beautiful surroundings.
Lydia was still lying around in bed, but she jumped up and quickly ran out of her room when she heard
the servants greet Hiram. She was in such a hurry that she forgot to put on her shoes. She just ran
barefoot on the cold marble floor. "Hiram? What brings you back?"
Lydia saw Hiram coming up the grand staircase. The figure and the face definitely belonged to her
brother, whom she missed so much!
"Hiram... Ouch!"
Lydia was slapped hard across the face before she found out what was going on. She felt the tingle of
extreme pain followed by numbness.
"Lydia Rong, I am your brother! Have you no consideration whatsoever for my feelings?" Hiram said
angrily. His furious voice echoed throughout the house. A couple of birds flew away from a nearby tree.
Lydia touched her cheek which had started to swell. Tears came rolling down her face. "Hiram.. What
are you talking about? Why do you think that I haven't considered your feelings!"
"Huh! If you ever considered my feelings, you would not even have thought of doing that. Think about
what you have done! Have you ever cared about me at all?"
Hiram took out a document and threw it in her face. The document went flying in the room.
Lydia picked up the document and read it quickly. She could guess the content easily. She wiped the
tears which were streaming down her face, but she couldn't stop crying. "Hiram, you misunderstand
me...
I didn't do it!" She tried to explain.