Bride Behind The Mask (Frederick and Marguerite)

Chapter 513

Maurice doted on Teresa like she was his little princess. Looking down into her big, doe eyes, he asked with a wry smile, “Sweetie, if I put you down, will you come home with me?”

Teresa pouted adorably, her eyes twinkling like grapes in a vineyard, and nodded her head with an irresistible cuteness. “Of course! Daddy, if you put me down, I’ll go home with you.”

Maurice was a goner when it came to Teresa’s charms. As he reluctantly set her down, he never expected the little rascal to make a break for it, darting into the wall of bodyguards and sticking her tongue out at him.

“Daddy, if you want to take Mommy away, then go ahead, but I’m not moving! Bye-bye, Daddy!”

She waved at him mockingly, then turned tail and disappeared faster than a rabbit down its hole.

That little trickster!

Maurice had planned to use Teresa as leverage to bring Marguerite back home, but the tables had turned. Teresa had played him like a fiddle, and he’d fallen for it.

he glared at the human barricade set up by

to repeat myself,” he said with a tone that brooked

Marguerite, he exuded an air of command that seemed to weigh down the atmosphere. “Get

her ground,

to leave Teresa here at the hospital all alone?”

sharply in warning. “No man can tolerate the humiliation

if I wanted to make you a laughing stock, it would have to be consensual between me and the other man. And since he despises me so, I’m not comfortable leaving

would harm Teresa; she just wanted an

hurt more than facing the raw wounds over and over

were nothing but hatred, a constant reminder that she didn’t even have

it’s over between Frederick

Frederick had said that his love had worn

only fuel Frederick’s disdain.

of his love in the past was now matched by the depth of