Bride Behind The Mask (Frederick and Marguerite)

Chapter 472

Marguerite was taken aback by Miley’s explanation.

“So, she handed over the position meant for her daughter to me?”

“No kidding!” Miley rolled her eyes at Marguerite with no pretense of subtlety. “Marguerite, seriously, what’s your secret? How come everyone’s just falling head over heels for you? I’m starting to get a wee bit jealous over here.”

Marguerite nearly burst into laughter.

“Don’t you go buttering me up! Aren’t you the same? Penelope must like you too, right? Why else would she sneak you into the company through the back door?”

“That’s not it at all!” Miley was a mix of indignation and a touch of wistfulness, “Penelope doesn’t even know I’m Robert’s girlfriend! I got the job on my own merits! I’m a private investigator by trade, you know. Just last week, while digging up info for a client, I found that the Fitzgeralds trying to set up Robert with a marriage alliance. So, naturally, I rushed over!”

Marguerite looked at Miley’s childlike frustration and couldn’t help but find it both exasperating and amusing, “With that firecracker personality, you should be chasing off those would-be fiancées, not sneaking around.”

do you know!”

laughed heartily, teasing Miley further:

all your ‘my mother-in-law this and that,’ you had the Fitzgerald clan eating

down on my family for being new money from a lottery win, thinking I’m not good

wanted to test the waters with Penelope; after all, to solve a problem at its root, you’ve got to butter up the mother-in-law first, right? Maybe once Penelope gets to know me, sees my charm, she might come around. Anyway, Penelope is definitely going to be my mother-in-law!”

parallels between her

of their relationships, neither was accepted

she wanted with all her might and main. In contrast,

asking, “By the way, what happened to Mr. Winston? I stopped by Thunderbolt Enterprises before

instinctively wanting to keep

eyes. “Don’t you dare keep things from me! Remember my profession – if there’s something I want to know, I’ll

she could probably worm it out of Robert anyway, Marguerite let down her guard and spilled the beans about everything

how he ended up back at the Winston Mansion, and every last

then looked at

was staring at you before he asked

Marguerite nodded.