Love's Tangled Web by Donna Taylor

Chapter 548

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T’ll call Diana. Let’s find a place to sit and talk calmly. Mark is super busy and sometimes doesn’t even come to the hospital for days, waiting here won’t help,” Ellie insisted, gently guiding Lacey out of the director’s office.

If Lacey stayed there too long, she would soon discover Mark’s hiding spot.

By ten o’clock that morning, at a restaurant downtown, Ellie, Lacey, and Diana ordered several dishes.

Lacey, your urgency to find Mark makes me think something has happened, hasn’t it?” Ellie asked, now that she had rested well in the duty room and noticed Lacey’s stressed expression.

Lacey sat across from Ellie, her fork crushing a pastry as she revealed, “I made a bet with Mark and lost myself to him.”

Diana couldn’t hold back her surprise and ended up spraying juice everywhere. Ellie’s lips twitched, momentarily shocked by the news.

you lose to him?” Diana’s eyes widened in disbelief, nearly popping out as she exclaimed, “Mark told us he’s getting married tomorrow, and that

her fork on the table and gently knocked her fist against her head, saying, “I only wanted the jewels. I asked Layton to bid for them, but he refused. So, I turned to Mark.

spend my own money on those jewels, so I dared Mark. He said his family was pressuring him to get married, and

would help me bid that set of jewelry. Since he’d never beaten me before, I agreed. But who would

and my passport. He told me to wait for him at the city hall

tears as she

about this and insists I’ve made my own mess and need

rested her head on the table. “I had planned to surf with my idol

got drunk yesterday,” Diana said, feeling like

usually stayed away from the news. However, they

true that Mark is being pressured by his family to marry?” Lacey asked. Diana nodded,

with Mark, and then break up after a year, do

year, if I date my idol, will Mark kill me?” Lacey’s

he’s just using you as a shield against family pressure. Honestly, all Mark cares