Chapter 1543


    “Maggie, are you okay? Why the tears? Tell me what’s wrong,” he urged, his voiceced with concern that grazed her already


    sensitive emotions.


    Without a word, Maggie lunged into his embrace, clinging to him as though trying to fuse with him.


    “Sanford, I..


    She yearned to confide everything, to let him steer their future.


    Yet, the words wouldn''te.


    The risk felt overwhelming.


    Her strength was too frail.


    Feeling the dampness on his cor, Sanford’s anxiety spiked.


    He tenderly lifted her face, his hands gentle as he wiped away her tears.


    “Maggie, don’t cry. Talk to me. Who''s hurt you?”


    Anxiety etched Sanford’s features as Maggie’s heart twisted in agony.


    She shrugged away his grasp, struggling to stifle the ache within.


    Eyes cast down, her voice came out subdued.


    “| wasn’t hurt. On my way home, | watched a heartbreaking movie. The lovers in it parted ways over certain tribtions. It left me


    so sad that...”


    Sanford, taken aback, could hardly fathom that a film had moved her to tears. Torn between amusement and concern, he chided


    gently, “Oh, you dear, foolish girl! Why let such sorrow take hold? Fearful that we might end like the couple in the film?”


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    Maggie’s gaze fell, her silence speaking volumes of the sorrow her eyes could scarcely conceal.


    With grave sincerity, Sanford dered, “Maggie, let''s get married tomorrow.”


    The proposal struck her like a bolt from the blue.


    Tears brimmed in her eyes at the thought of marriage.


    She longed with all her heart to be his wife by morning.N?velDrama.Org content rights.


    Yet...


    “No,” she whispered, a crushing realization that this joy was not meant for her.


    “Maggie, don’t you wish to marry me?” Sanford’s brow furrowed in concern.


    Lowering her eyes again, shielding the sorrow within, she replied, “I’m not yet a graduate. Marrying so soon doesn’t feel right.”