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

silence, with the

Sadie, watched Marguerite’s expression

girl, dressed simply, thin as a stick. But her delicate hands looked pitiful,

poor girl, but her eyes were resolute and bright, nothing like

softly, “Miss, are you in some kind of trouble? You can talk to us,

trouble was her grandma, but she couldn’t

the covers and got out of bed, “I’m not in any trouble, and I’m

and current marriage laws meant she couldn’t divorce him straight

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

she didn’t even

he

in surprise, her clear eyes

that simple.” Frederick turned to Sadie, continuing to give orders, “Take her to the guest room, she can’t leave without

this woman

quickly gathered all the information on Marguerite and rushed to

was standing in front of the floor–to–ceiling window, agitatedly smoking a cigar. Behind the swirling smoke, his stern face full of

no parents, no relatives, she’s listed as ‘illiterate‘, likely

turned around. “That’s

nodded mechanically, “Yes, that’s

end of the cigar illuminating his sharp face, and a

illiterate.”

in agreement, “Yes, I

money. Because she’s poor, she’s always scheming to get money.

a moment then asked, “Mr. Winston, we’ve checked all of Marguerite’s information,

his pockets, “Let her go. The

orders, quickly removing all the bodyguards

Valley Estates was from the city, Chuck didn’t

night deepened, the grand Sapphire Valley Estates was illuminated by the bright

she suddenly realized that her

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

be

for twenty–two years, never taking it