Bride Behind The Mask (Frederick and Marguerite)

Chapter 730

Chuck scratched his ear, unfazed by the gunfire outside, but Marguerite

Lockwood's scream had indeed caught him off guard.

"Marguerite, relax. It's just a firecracker, really small potatoes. Mr. Winston won't

let anything happen to you."

A firecracker?

Chuck's attempt at reassurance only made Marguerite's skin crawl.

"Can you please just tell me what's going on?"

Chuck quickly poured Marguerite a cup of tea, hoping it would calm her nerves, then he started, looking somewhat troubled:

"Marguerite, you might not be aware, but Mr. Winston was ambushed right after he got off the plane this morning. He was almost hurt. Luckily, Chief Tunez from the Tunez Tribe was there to back him up.

The firecracker that was just set off, well, Mr. Winston wanted to test its power, and also to scare off any potential ambushers lurking around."

"Ambushed?"

wariness, her

as soon

be that his influence had grown so vast that so many were watching him

is behind it. We're

special check when you came in. Normally, it wouldn't

her cup of tea in

"Take me to Frederick!"

glanced at his watch, "At this time, Mr. Winston is

Marguerite frowned in confusion.

ambushed, and this man still has the leisure to sit down for

to stay calm, taking a while before she continued to

for a hacker collaboration project, so this Chief wouldn't happen to be the hacker, would

laughed: "No, that's not it, but it's a

make it short and

of urgency, which somewhat

was rarely anything but calm and collected, even

tragedy, she seldom showed

palpable,

worry was for Mr. Winston's

thought, he