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

room fell into silence, with the servants

expression

a stick. But her delicate hands looked pitiful, and her pale face was

eyes were resolute and bright, nothing

forward, asking softly, “Miss, are you in some kind of trouble? You can talk to us, Frederick isn’t

Her only trouble was her grandma, but she couldn’t say

got out of bed, “I’m not in any trouble, and I’m just as confused about this marriage. So, I can’t answer

she’d already married Frederick and current marriage laws meant she couldn’t

had only asked her to marry Frederick, but made no further demands.

so indifferent she didn’t even flicker an

creased, and he said coldly, “Stop right

around in surprise, her clear eyes

can come and go as you please? It’s not that simple.” Frederick turned to Sadie, continuing to give orders,

deceived. How could he possibly let this woman leave without

gathered all the information on Marguerite and rushed to the study to report,

the floor–to–ceiling window, agitatedly smoking a cigar. Behind the swirling smoke, his stern face full

has no parents, no relatives, she’s

turned around. “That’s

nodded mechanically, “Yes, that’s

end of the cigar illuminating his sharp face,

illiterate.”

nodded in agreement, “Yes, I always felt Marguerite seemed

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

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

and walked out of the study with his hands in his pockets, “Let her go. The further away she gets, the better. Before the divorce in three months, I don’t want

orders, quickly removing all the

considering the time and how far Sapphire Valley Estates was from

night deepened, the grand Sapphire Valley Estates was illuminated by the bright moonlight. Everyone was fast asleep, except

realized that her precious sapphire necklace

It seemed that the necklace had been missing since

the necklace be in his

necklace for twenty–two years, never