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2024-10-29 19:42:56What kind of sick joke was he playing with her?
"Marry you? " She voiced out in disbelief then resumed on another fit of laughter so hard that her stomach hurts.
Rafael watch her laugh, even though he knew it was a mocking one, still his breath caught at the sight, her face flushed and her eyes bright,she look radiant, but he was confused at what was so funny about his proposal.
.He caught himself in a transfixed state staring at her and a wave of annoyance directed at himself swept through him."What's so damn funny?" He gritted, his hard gaze pinned in a glare at her.
She sobered up almost immediately but refused to cower at the sharpness of his gaze. "What's so damn funny is that you just said I should marry you! Did you knock your head over and lose your senses? " She let out."The fact that you are going to marry me isn't funny " he
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