Bride Behind The Mask (Frederick and Marguerite)

Chapter 7

Frederick watched Marguerite, his deep eyes flickering with a cold light, his gaze colder than ever.

They can’t divorce within three months?

Upon hearing the news, Frederick couldn’t hide his anger anymore. He opened his lips and snapped at the woman in front of him, “So, this is your plan?”

How bloody convenient!

He’d just walked into the registry office with Yuna, and this woman named Marguerite swooped in like a bolt of lightning, somehow managing to become his wife in name first.

What the hell was this woman playing at?

Marguerite looked at him blankly, her clear eyes filled with innocence, “What do you mean?”

Frederick coldly stared at her, his rebellious eyes like a fierce bird of prey, “You’ve planned it well, becoming my wife for three months. Thinking you’ll get a cut of my wealth once we divorce? Dream on!”

Wealth?

Rich–folks always have the weirdest thinking. Just because they’re loaded, they think everyone wants to get something from them?

She just wanted to save her grandma’s life.

She married a stranger she didn’t love, so she was a victim too.

Marguerite clenched her fists in anger at his insult. She straightened her back and her gaze hardened, “Sir, you’ve got it all wrong. I don’t know you, and I don’t give a damn about your money.”

The man laughed, his slightly upturned mouth revealing his white teeth, “I’ve seen plenty of gold–diggers, but you’re the first to be so calculating.”

Marguerite blushed furiously at his insult and was momentarily speechless.

To save her grandma, she’d become the wife of this man in front of her, under the instructions of a mysterious person. That was her biggest

scheme.

man wasn’t

into silence, with the servants keeping

housekeeper, Sadie, watched Marguerite’s expression closely, feeling there was

thin as a stick. But her delicate hands looked pitiful, and her

but her eyes

stepped forward, asking softly, “Miss, are you in some kind of trouble? You

was her

not in any trouble, and I’m just as confused about this marriage. So, I can’t answer any more questions.

and current marriage laws

Frederick, but made no further demands. She didn’t want to stick around to hear him

she didn’t even flicker an eyelash, she

he said coldly, “Stop

in surprise, her clear eyes

as you please? It’s not that simple.” Frederick turned to Sadie, continuing to give orders, “Take her to the guest room, she can’t leave without

could he possibly let this woman

and rushed to the study to report, holding

window, agitatedly smoking a cigar. Behind the swirling smoke,

information is very clear. She has no parents, no relatives, she’s listed as ‘illiterate‘, likely an

around. “That’s all?”

nodded mechanically, “Yes,

man took a puff, the lit end of the cigar illuminating his sharp

illiterate.”

“Yes, I always felt Marguerite

scoffed, “Aloof? She’s more like a poor girl trying to scam some money. Because she’s poor, she’s always scheming to get money. She

asked, “Mr. Winston, we’ve checked all of

out of the study with his hands in his pockets, “Let her go. The

out his boss‘ orders, quickly removing all the

how far Sapphire Valley Estates was from the city, Chuck didn’t

Sapphire Valley Estates was illuminated by the bright moonlight. Everyone was fast asleep, except for

she suddenly realized that her precious

thought about all the places she’d been today. It seemed that the necklace had been missing since she

be in his

this necklace for twenty–two years, never