Bride Behind The Mask (Frederick and Marguerite)

Chapter 575

Teresa sighed heavily, her reluctance softening into a pout. She puffed her rosy cheeks and asked with earnest, “Manley, why did you say my mom hit you?”

“I saw her hit me, my skin turned red where she pinched me, that’s the proof!” Manley’s eyes were stubborn and livid, his little chubby body shaking with the intent to usher Teresa and Hayes out.

“We’re not friends anymore! Don’t come looking for me! I don’t wanna hang out with jerks!” Hayes and Teresa were pushed towards the door, both of them clinging to the doorframe, refusing to leave.

Teresa rolled/her eyes cunningly, a shrewd glint passing through them as she decided to provoke Manley, “We’re not jerks! Liars are the real jerks! You lied! And you pinched yourself and then blamed everything on my mom! That makes you the jerk!”

Teresa hadn’t spent much time with Manley, but she had noticed one thing at the hospital last week-Manley hated being called a jerk.

As soon as someone described him with that word, he would argue his case fiercely,

Sure enough, as soon as Teresa finished her accusation, Manley’s eyes brimmed with tears, “I didn’t! I did not pinch myself! I didn’t lie, and I’m not a jerk!”

had been hurt,

night I saw your mom storm into my room, wearing a white dress, hair all wild, like some kind of ghost! She said my mom was the other woman, that my dad didn’t love me, he only loved you and Hayes!

me so hard I started seeing stars! And… and her face was so,

sleeve to reveal bruised skin, fooking

disbelief, fixated on Manley’s bruises and his tear-streaked face.

mom had repeatedly warned her not to

you calling a lioness? I won’t let you talk

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Teresa rolled up her sleeves

urgently, “Don’t do

managed to speak a complete

lying? My mom

his gaze serious and defiant, “Stay

Teresa, he walked over to Manley and examined his head closely