Love Began with the First Meeting novel Chapter 1393

All of a sudden, Maggie and Edgar's relationship had reached a new dimension. They finally registered and collected their marriage license. Edgar surprised Maggie with a heartfelt proposal which had her in tears. Maggie was stunned when she saw him go down on one knee to propose. For a long second, she couldn't even think straight. Her heart was thumping frantically and her mind had gone complete blank. She stared at him, transfixed, as this endearing moment that she had longed for so long finally happened. Maybe it was as Edgar had said that this was how a woman reacted when facing a man whom she truly loved and desired.

Monica and Benjamin had known all along that they had registered their marriage and the surprise was less stunning to them. After their initial cheering, they soon calmed down. But Sam and Lorraine were so shocked by Edgar's public proposal that their brains seemed to have stopped working. They gaped slack jawed at the scene, completely overwhelmed.

"Can someone please tell me what is happening here?" Lorraine muttered in a daze. "When did Edgar start dating Maggie?"

Benjamin gave her a sideways glance. "Edgar and Maggie had their marriage registered even before the training started. They kept it a secret."

Lorraine twitched her lips in disbelief. "Wow! Don't you think that Edgar was being a little too hard on Maggie in their daily life? The standards which he had set for Maggie were so high that you might have thought that they had some old feud going on."

Sam heard their comments and turned to look again at the happy couple who were wrapped in a golden halo of light. "Honestly, if he didn't do that from the start, then I'd now be thinking that he had turned a blind eye to Maggie's slackness during the training," he said.

Lorraine agreed. They had all been selected to attend the meeting because of their high marks and excellent performance. And Maggie was the highest performer among them and her marks far topped all of theirs. If Edgar had treated them all equally, there would have been whispers now that his relationship with Maggie had become known. It therefore seemed that Edgar had really put a lot of thinking into it, being careful not to create the wrong impression.

"Alas..." Monica sighed. "I suddenly feel as though we are here simply because Edgar wants us here. He planned all of this. I know we have all obtained good marks and we are here for the meeting, but that is not the main purpose. We are here because we're Maggie's good friends and Edgar wants us to witness their marriage proposal."

Benjamin glanced at Monica and said nothing as Lorraine and Sam quickly nodded their agreement. As the old saying went, "Birds of a feather flock together." Maggie had always been ambitious and fiercely competitive, so it stood to reason that the people around her also had similar personalities. Monica and Benjamin were very closed to Maggie, and they did everything together. Lorraine and Sam were not that close to her but they were still on friendly terms.

"Say yes..." Molly couldn't help reminding her, since, after a long pause, Maggie was still completely astonished. She was so overwhelmed that she hadn't even made a sound yet.

Other voices quickly took up the chant. "Say yes! Say yes! Say yes!"

The rest of the hall was rather dimly lit compared to where Maggie now stood. She couldn't really make out who else was there in the shadows. But vaguely she heard some familiar voice in the chorus. "How can you possibly afford a ring with such a huge diamond?" she asked softly.

Edgar had been using his credit card since the day before they had registered their marriage license. He had told her then that he had used up all of his savings. Maggie could tell from the look of the ring that it was way beyond his financial means. Edgar couldn't afford this ring, even if he were to max out all of his credit cards.

But he smiled winsomely and explained, "Financed by The Dragon Empire Group." There was a roguish glitter in his eyes. "Eric asked me to pick one. So I chose the one with the biggest diamond..." Grinning more broadly, he muttered in a voice so low that the others wouldn't hear, "We can count on it, if we ever have financial troubles in the future."

It took her a moment to comprehend his words, but when she understood his implications, Maggie reached out to hit him. Edgar, swift and sly as ever, caught her reaching hand and smoothly slid the ring onto her finger.