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

fork on the table and gently knocked her fist against her head, saying, “I only wanted the

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

jewelry. Since he’d never beaten me before, I agreed. But who would have thought,

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

disbelief. Lacey’s eyes filled with tears as she continued, “He even said in front of

this and insists I’ve made my own mess and

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

yesterday,” Diana said, feeling like she

news. However, they were

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

trapped; if I enter into a contract marriage with Mark, and then break up after a year, do you think

date my idol, will Mark kill me?” Lacey’s voice shook

is really a gentleman; he’s just using you as a shield against family pressure. Honestly, all Mark