Bride Behind The Mask (Frederick and Marguerite)

Chapter 54

It took him forever to figure out that Marguerite didn’t want him to bring her flowers as a gift. She wanted to make perfume, and the flowers were the raw materials! Marguerite was busy crushing petals and the sound was crisp and clear. Frederick was not in the best mood, watching her with a gloomy expression. “Are you treating my office like a lab?”

Marguerite looked up and asked earnestly, “Can I?”

She dared to ask him for permission?

She really didn’t take him seriously!

Frederick denied her request flatly: “No.”

Marguerite looked awkward, her hands halted mid-air. The room was filled with a tense silence.

Chuck, fearing another argument, quickly explained, “Perfume is made through chemical reactions, which need to be done in a professional lab. If some substances come into contact with an open flame here, it could cause an explosion. As a perfumer, shouldn’t you know this?”

Marguerite was not pleased. She knew all that, but she was confident she wouldn’t make such a rookie mistake.

Marguerite glanced at Chuck, then looked at Frederick and said, “I’ll be careful and I’m not an idiot. Besides, LuxeScents International refuses to let me into the lab and they said it’s only for top perfumers.”

Frederick thought he must have heard wrong. Was that a hint of complaint and coyness in her voice?

But since she was so passionate about making perfume, he might as well indulge her.

He looked at Marguerite without any expression and said, “Follow me.”

Marguerite was a bit puzzled, but she followed Frederick into the inner office.

She had never been in there before, all she knew was that Frederick and Robert would go in there for meetings every morning at 10, always secretive about what they were doing.

up a spiral staircase by the floor-to-ceiling windows, and Marguerite curiously followed.

punched in a code, and

was filled with all sorts of flowers and plants, and a suite of perfume-making tools lay on the lab table in

seen such a beautiful lab, it

taking in the sight when a puppy suddenly

was startled. She looked down and saw a young corgi, at most three months

Marguerite lovingly picked up the corgi, gently stroking

huff, affectionately licking

woman! Ugly

harsh, unpleasant voice suddenly echoed in the room.

aback. She looked up and saw a red-headed parrot perched on

parrot was staring at Marguerite with its round eyes,

was nowhere near as cute

are

“Divine! Divine!”

ready to take on the little parrot. “Who named you? It’s

standing behind Frederick, completely

make talking to

slowly cracked a smile; his face was rarely this

woman was all schemes and pretense, but her genuine joy was reminiscent of

perfumes here in the flower room from now on and I’ll give you the

stunned, she couldn’t believe it.

did this man become so

dumbstruck. “Mr. Winston, the flowers in the flower room are rare and expensive, some are

indicating he didn’t

and quickly shut his