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.

sure that Mark was inexperienced; how could you lose to him?” Diana’s eyes widened in disbelief, nearly popping out as she exclaimed, “Mark told us

only wanted the jewels. I asked Layton to bid for them, but

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

me bid that set of jewelry. Since he’d never beaten me before, I

ID and my passport. He told me to wait for him at

with tears as she continued, “He even said in front of so many people that

knows about this and insists I’ve made

her head on the table. “I had planned to surf with my idol next week; what am I going to do

“I got drunk yesterday,” Diana said, feeling like she

away from the news. However, they were all well aware of Lacey’s

by his family to marry?” Lacey asked.

with Mark, and then break up after a year, do you think he’ll agree?” Lacey

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

shield against family pressure. Honestly, all Mark cares about is his career, not relationships.” Diana