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.

darkening as he glared at the human barricade set up by

myself,” he said with a tone that brooked no

of command that seemed to weigh down the

her ground,

me to leave Teresa here at the hospital all

can tolerate the humiliation of being cuckolded. My patience has limits,

gaze 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

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

couldn’t deny feeling a pang of loss. Nothing hurt more than facing

a constant reminder that

it’s over between Frederick and

that his love had worn away, she had

further entanglement would only

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