Chapter 487:.

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It was cold in Benin City with the onset of winter.

Wendy followed Maddox and reached the third floor balcony.

She was wearing thin clothes and walked from the warm room to the outside. With the change in temperature, she sneezed heavily.

When Maddox heard it, he turned around and saw her shivering, looking very cold.

Seeing her thin clothes, he immediately took off his suit and went over to put it on her.

Wendy was flattered by his sudden behavior.

She looked at him with crystal eyes.

She was touched.

Seeing this, Maddox feared that she misunderstood him and hastened to explain, “I’m afraid that if you catch a cold, Grandpa will worry about you.”

His words were like a bucket of cold water falling on her heart. She pouted and said, “Is that so?”

It turned out he wasn’t worried about her.

He did it only because he was afraid her grandfather would worry.

How hard-hearted he was!

Yet his hands were still gripping her coat tightly. She could feel his temperature and his smell.

She felt like she was hugging him.

How could she take off her coat?

So, even though he wasn’t worried about her….

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She didn’t care.

Maddox walked over and rested his hands on the railing. He looked up at the coal-black sky. Even the stars feared the winter cold and hid.

He pursed his lips tightly and his eyes grew somber.

Wendy walked slowly beside him and looked ahead.

The Shen Family villa was located halfway up the hill. Looking down from there, one could see the twinkling lights of the bustling city and imagine how lively the city would be.

Silence stretched between the two people, and there was nothing else beside their ears but the sound of the wind.

After a long moment, Wendy broke the silence and said, “Maddox, what do you want to talk about?”

Maddox replied slowly, “Were you serious the other day?”.

So that was what he wanted to ask.

Wendy was a little disappointed. It was the first time he had wanted to talk to her, but she hadn’t expected him to still want to talk about the engagement between them.

She took a deep breath and said, “Of course.”

“So, what’s Grandpa’s attitude?”

Before she left today, she said she would convince her grandfather. Now, she just wanted to know what the outcome was.

Was he against it or for it?

“Maddox, you know Grandpa’s personality. What attitude do you think he has?” Wendy leaned to the side, staring at his handsome side face.

Maddox turned his head to look at her and said, “You still don’t agree, do you?”

Wendy let out a giggle and said, “Grandpa thinks that if the engagement between you and me dissolves, he’ll feel sorry for my grandfather.”

Maddox frowned and said, “Grandpa is too stubborn.”

Wendy looked at him and rested her hands on the railing. She said softly, “Maddox, do you still remember our first meeting? At that time, my parents had just passed away and I suddenly lost two close relatives. Even though I was young, I knew I would be an orphan from then on. But just when I thought my world had collapsed, your grandfather appeared. He took me to the Shen Family and I saw a tall, thin boy.”

He paused and said, “He smiled kindly at me and said, ‘Welcome, you can call me Maddox. I will protect you in the future. Since then, he was in my heart. I love him, I love him very much.”

The sudden confession of love shocked Maddox. He turned his head and met her loving eyes. He hurried to look away, uncomfortably.

He did not realize that his action caused a trace of disappointment to appear in her eyes.

She smiled bitterly and said, “Unfortunately, he doesn’t love me. He loves someone else.”

When she finished speaking, silence returned.

“I’m sorry, Wendy,” Maddox said after a while in an apologetic tone.

Sorry?

What she wanted was not an apology from him, but an admission that he could love her.

Wendy took a deep breath and, feigning indifference, said, “Maddox, you have nothing to apologize for. It’s about my own wishes. You’re not wrong.”

She smiled and continued, “Maddox, you don’t have to mentally burden yourself. Since I can say it now, it means I want to let it go. I will help you convince him until he agrees to my request.”

Seeing her like this, Maddox couldn’t help but be moved.

He reached out to stroke her head and said in a very energetic tone,

“Thank you, Wendy. Tell me what you want. I can help you fulfill whatever is within my power.’

‘I want you to marry me’ Wendy said quietly in her heart.

However, this request was not within her means.

So she pondered for a moment and then said, “Could you…ask me to lunch?”

“Such a simple request?”

Maddox raised his eyebrows in surprise.

Wendy smiled slightly, “Then invite me over for dinner once in a while. Just you and me.”

Maddox nodded without hesitation and said, “Okay, you have my word.”

Wendy smiled happily. As long as he agreed, everything would be fine.

In the future, they could get along well alone. Then, he would gradually discover that she was a good girl.

“Maddox, since you don’t want me, then I won’t want you anymore. So, can you find me a boyfriend?”.

Wendy cocked her head to the side and raised her eyebrows playfully at him.

“No problem.” Maddox agreed bluntly, “Then tell me what kind of boyfriend you want.”

“Well…” Wendy thought seriously, then smiled and said, “He must be as good as you.”

“Like me?”

Maddox raised his eyebrows in surprise and said in a very regretful tone, “Then I’m afraid I can’t find one for you. After all, I’m too outstanding.”

Wendy laughed and said, “Maddox, you’re still as narcissistic as before.”

“I’m not being narcissistic. I’m telling the truth.”

Wendy smiled even wider at hearing this.

Suddenly, she felt that the gap between them had completely disappeared. It was as if they had gone back to their childhood.

He was still the Maddox who loved her, and she was still the little sister who was secretly in love with him.

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