Bride Behind The Mask (Frederick and Marguerite)

Chapter 50

Chapter 50

“Is that really you?” Frederick asked in disbelief, “You’ve changed so much?”

Marguerite shrugged it off. “So, are you saying I’m ugly now? All kids look pretty much the same, and mind you, I was only a few days old then.”

Frederick’s eyes were glued to the photo. It was of a lively old lady holding a baby in swaddling clothes, both beaming brightly.

Snow was falling around them, but the old lady’s clothes were thin and shabby. It was a heart-wrenching sight.

No wonder Marguerite was taken in by the Lockwood family. The old lady seemed not to have the means to raise a child.

Did her parents abandon her right after she was born?

Frederick wanted to ask Marguerite about her parents and consider if he should help her find them, but he decided against it.

Marguerite never mentioned her parents or grandma, probably because it hurt too much.

He didn’t want to reopen her wounds.

At this point, she was very much like him.

Even though he now successfully controlled the entire Winston Group, his childhood experience of being driven out of the family by his father was still a painful

scar.

and didn’t want to recall that

Marguerite. Their

then

a more peculiar feeling.

that he had seen the old lady somewhere before.

grandma seems very kind.”

to his desk,

looking at the photo. “True beauty

world.”

her a sapphire necklace with a floral pattern, but

remember if I lost a necklace

scanning through some documents and didn’t look at her. “Are you

lip, her gaze shifting on

She wasn’t sure.

when she lost the necklace, she had been to many

silence made Frederick look up. He glanced at her briefly, then bluntly said, “If you lost it, just buy a

he think

loss for words: “I can’t afford it.”

realizing that Marguerite had only been with the company for

couldn’t afford to

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