She kept her head low, like an afflicted puppy.

Seeing her somber expression, Sanford took his anger down a notch.

In a calmer tone, he asked, “If you could go back to the past, would you still leave me?"

Maggie pressed her lips together. After a moment of hesitation, she nodded her head and said, “Yes.”

Sanford almost let out a curse at how she casually answered that.