The proposal!

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"I know about your mother." He said and she was shocked on hearing that. How did he know when she did not even opened her mouth. She slowly looked up and gulped when she found that he was already looking at her in the eyes. He was trying to search for the confirmation in her eyes that what he had just said was true. And he found it. Her eyes became teary in an instant. His heart felt heavy seeing her like that. He got up from his seat and hugged her tightly and she did not resist him. She put her head against his stomach while her arms were snaked around his torso and she cried. She cried for her mother whom she did not wish to lose. She was her only light in this dark world. Though she was not her biological mother, she still loved her no less than her own. And she even told her about her being an orphan because she did not want her to find out on her own from others. Her heart was clenching thinking about her mother being in such a bad condition. Her kind, b