At that moment, the boarding announcement echoed through the airport.Clara’s voice trembled with uncontrollable panic.“You’re going on a business trip, right?”Watching the hurried travelers weave past, my heart felt unusually calm.“I’m going to the Everton branch.”“How long?”“Three years.”Clara paused, then spoke, her tone careful, almost fragile.“Three years… three years isn’t very long… Travel is so convenient now, I can come see you, and I can wait…”“Wait for what?”Her voice hardened with a resolve I hadn’t heard before.“Nathan, when you come back, let’s get married. Okay?“Or… we can get married now.”I froze, letting the flood of emotions spill out.“Clara, do you know? Actually, for your birthday this year, I hid a diamond ring in the cake to propose to you.“But it got interrupted. That night, Ethan got rear-ended. “You panicked so badly, I had no choice but to follow you to check on him. When we arrived, he hadn’t even been scratched.”Her quiet, ch
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