Chapter 848

"Have you been following me?"

"I figured you wouldn't want to be disturbed, but this was the only way I could see you."

Marguerite's heart sank.

His voice was so full of sadness it shattered her heart into icy shards.

She wasn't angry because Silas had been trailing her; it was the fact that he would do something so reckless knowing she already had bodyguards.

What if Maurice found out? Had he not thought about the consequences?

Marguerite wasn't sure if Silas was defying Maurice, but she didn't want him to be in danger because of her.

In Silas's case, she couldn't afford to owe him anything.

Marguerite's tense demeanor made Silas nervous. He looked at her anxiously, asking, "Are you mad?"

Marguerite was at a loss with Silas. No man had ever shown such vulnerability to her, not even Frederick.

Maybe it was because of a soft heart, or maybe out of pity, but she realized she couldn't stay mad at him.

Yet, she knew deep down that she couldn't keep up this ambiguous relationship with Silas, so she sat on the couch with a business-like demeanor and asked:

Maurice say

beside her. "Nothing much,

you agree to

"Not yet."

quiet sigh of relief. "So it was just

evasive, filled with conflict and hesitation, as

once

Oh, for heaven's sake!

Maurice, you lying scoundrel!

their relationship ever resemble that

a

to be waiting for her to give

a long moment, Silas smiled

can

way of all those in love, to be

eyes touched Marguerite deeply, making her

reason prevailed, and Marguerite dared not meet his gaze,

not entirely wrong. There was a time when Maurice

imagined it would come to

to turn down another man, she'd have to falsely admit

How ironic.

lowered his eyes, seemingly pondering Marguerite's words seriously. "If you were lovers, then what

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