Bride Behind The Mask (Frederick and Marguerite)

Chatper 543

Chapter 543

He still remembered the day when Powell cornered him at the Winston Mansion and dropped the bombshell. Marguerite is the belle of the ball right now, and Maurice and Frederick were both vying for her affection!

If he actually blacklisted Marguerite, there was no doubt those two wouldn’t let him off the hook! And then there was his wife, another puzzle he couldn’t quite solve!

Yuna never expected Hackett to reject her so quickly, and in a fit of pique fueled by one too many glasses of wine, she lashed out, “Dad! How can you go back on your word like this? You just promised me you’d agree to anything I asked!”

Hackett sighed, speaking with a patience born of long suffering, “Honey, I know you’ve got your beef with Marguerite, and I don’t like her either! But your mother likes her. You want me to go head-to-head with your mom over this?

Not to mention, when Marguerite was hired, your mom laid out this crazy clause to keep her on board – if either party breaches the contract, they owe the other fifty times the penalty fee!

If I fire Marguerite now, wouldn’t that be like throwing money at her?”

Back then, when Penelope proposed that clause, she was half-joking. Neither took it seriously, but Marguerite, seeing Penelope’s earnestness, signed on the dotted line without hesitation. She was just to give Penelope some peace of mind.

of fear of the

harmony of a household hinges on the lady of

no longer avoiding him, and life had started to look

Marguerite quits on her own, she’d

But why would she

sweetheart.”

the conversation drop. But she wasn’t

wretch couldn’t be ousted, she’d make sure to crush her at the

swoop in to save the day every time, and she was quite curious to see just how much

his daughter fall silent, Hackett tentatively broached another

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