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.

in disbelief, nearly popping out as she exclaimed, “Mark told us he’s getting married tomorrow, and that bride

her head, saying, “I only wanted the jewels. I asked Layton to bid for

bring myself to spend my own money on those jewels, so I dared Mark. He said his family was pressuring

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

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

her hands, while Ellie just stared in disbelief. Lacey’s eyes filled with tears as she continued, “He even

my family knows about this and insists I’ve made my own mess and

until she rested her head on the table. “I had planned to surf with

yesterday,” Diana said, feeling like she had missed

news. However, they were all well aware of Lacey’s strong feelings.

true that Mark is being pressured by his family to marry?” Lacey

feel trapped; if I enter into a contract marriage with Mark, and then break up after a

idol, will Mark kill me?” Lacey’s voice shook with worry.

as a shield against family pressure. Honestly, all Mark cares about is