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.

at the human barricade set up by Frederick. He knew breaking through was a

said with a tone

command that seemed to weigh down the atmosphere.

stood her ground,

you expect me to leave Teresa

humiliation of being cuckolded. My patience has limits, and I hope you don’t test them!”

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;

Nothing hurt more than facing the raw wounds

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

it’s over between

had said that his love had worn away, she

would only fuel

past was now