Chapter 680 Let Me Think About It

Madeleine wondered, ‘I don’t know how our future will be, but we’re probably going to be like this being together.’ She closed her eyes and wrapped her arms around Mason’s neck but he pulled her hands down and intertwined their fingers together. She suddenly felt a coldness at her fingertip. She was stunned for a moment and felt the coldness traveling up her finger. She suddenly realized it and pushed Mason away to have a look only to find that he was single-handedly trying to slip a diamond ring into her finger. “You…” ‘What is going on?’ Madeleine looked at that diamond ring which was halfway into her finger in disbelief as she mumbled. Since Mason had been pushed away, he used one hand to hold her wrist as his other hand gently put on the diamond ring properly for her. The diamond ring glittered under the moonlight. “Wh-when did you buy this?” She stared at the ring and asked him. “Do you like it?” Mason did not answer her but held her hand and pulled her hand to plant a kiss on the back of her hand. Madeleine did not answer him if she liked it but looked into his eyes and asked, “When did you buy it?” Mason chuckled. “Why are you asking this? Are you not satisfied with it?” Madeleine shook her head. She was not unsatisfied. She just wanted to know when he prepared this diamond ring but from his reaction, he seemed like he did not want to reveal it to her. Besides, he was giving her a diamond ring because… “Why did you suddenly… give me a diamond ring, I…” Mason leaned over and pinched her chin as he said hoarsely, “I’m proposing, don’t you know?” Madeleine blushed and bit her lower lip. She knew that Mason was proposing to her when he gave her a diamond ring, but… was he going to just slip it in like that? Without doing anything else? Mason did not allow any room for her to react as he leaned over and rested his lips at her ear. “Will you marry me?” Madeleine was dumbfounded. They were just arguing this evening, they were having a cold war over the past few days, and yet he proposed to her tonight. ‘The things this fella did…’ Madeleine felt that she could not grasp his actions. She blinked her eyes and her lips moved, but before she could say anything, she heard Mason say, “I’ll take it as a yes since you said nothing.” “What?” Madeleine widened her eyes in shock. “When did I agree…” “Heh.” Mason chucked. “Are you saying that you disagree?” Madeleine, “… I!” She did not mean that she would refuse, but she looked at him with satisfaction and huffed. “Is this how you propose? Why do I feel that this isn’t a proposal but a forced marriage?” Mason’s eyes glowed as if he had successfully captured his prey and was feeling happy and satisfied. He pinched her chin and forced her to look up at him. “So what if I’m forcing marriage on you? Do you think I can’t? Even if you refuse today, I will still lug you to the wedding venue on the day of our wedding.” Madeleine’s pupils constricted when faced with such an overbearing Mason. After a while, her courage shrank as she resumed being a docile lady and complained. “Who proposes like you do by putting the ring on my finger without saying anything.” Mason was stupefied to hear her response. “It’s my first time proposing.” Madeleine was stunned and felt her heart tightened. “You…” “I don’t have any experience because it’s my first time proposing.” Madeleine clenched her teeth and glared at him. “You’d be dead meat if you had previous experiences.” “That’s why.” Mason leaned closer and buried his head in the nape of her white neck. “The wedding is next month whether you agree to my proposal or not. Don’t forget that you admitted to having the wedding when we were abroad.” Speaking of that incident, Madeleine remembered how she had been dragged to the airport and later on met the Damasky siblings. That time, Mason said to the siblings that she and Mason were going to have their wedding next month. Madeleine thought that Mason did not mean it, but it turned out that… he was serious about it? Madeleine was shocked, to say the least. “I… I thought that you were just joking at that time because…” ‘Because I was the one who launched the attack on Winter. I thought that he was just going along with me to back me up by saying that. ‘Now he is telling me that the wedding next month is real. This news is so sudden that I don’t know what to do. I’m not mentally prepared and he already forced the ring into my finger, and next up… is the wedding.’ Madeleine looked at Mason with worry. “It’s not far away from next month. Do you mean early of the month or end of the month?” Mason raised his eyebrows when he heard that. “You can’t wait for it to happen?” Madeleine blushed and said between gritted teeth, “Who can’t wait for it? I’m just worried that we won’t have enough time, besides… I’m not mentally prepared.” “You’ve already married me once, we’re just going to have a wedding as a formality. What preparation do you need?” The more Madeleine thought about it, the more she felt that they were rushing into it, thus she cleared her throat and said, “Let me think about it.” She immediately left him and ran into the house without waiting for his reply. Once inside, she took a new set of pajamas to change because Mason’s wet hair had soaked her collar and she was finding it uncomfortable. When she hid inside the bathroom to change, she could feel her fingers trembling that she was having difficulty buttoning her clothes. She forced herself to calm down and control the trembling in her fingers to button her clothes but her finger trembled so much that she just could not button them. After some time, she gave up and looked at her reflection in the mirror. She had a pinkish complexion and a dreamy gaze, looking like a shy and nervous lady. ‘Sigh, Madeleine Hall, why are you so useless?’ She spurned herself inwardly and took a deep breath before turning on the tap water to splash a palmful of water on her face. It took a while before the heat on her face reduced, and the cold water had managed to calm her nerves down. She cupped her face and looked into the mirror. ‘It’s no big deal. He had just proposed, that’s all. You need to calm down. ‘You’ve gone through all these things before, it’s just holding a wedding ceremony. There’s nothing to fear. After all… a wedding is just going through the procedures. What’s important is how we’re going to live together and build a good relationship.’ Once she had given herself a pep talk, she looked at her pajamas and buttoned them on before exiting the bathroom.