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.

human barricade set

don’t want to repeat myself,” he said with

that seemed to weigh down the

stood her ground, unflinching.

leave Teresa here at the hospital all alone?”

sharply in warning. “No man can tolerate the humiliation of being

meeting his steadily. “You’re overthinking it. Even if I wanted to make you a laughing stock, it would have to be consensual between me and the other man. And

to Maurice with that last remark. She wasn’t worried Frederick would harm Teresa; she just wanted

hurt more

but hatred, a constant reminder that she didn’t even have the luxury of self-deception.

it’s over between Frederick and me.”

his love had worn away, she had

further entanglement would only

all, the intensity of his love in the past was now matched by the depth of his hatred.