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.

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

gently knocked her fist against her head, saying, “I only wanted the jewels. I asked Layton to bid

spend my own money on those jewels, so I dared Mark. He said

bid that set of jewelry. Since he’d never beaten

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

she continued, “He even said in front of so many people that I have the

made my own mess

“I had planned to surf with my idol next

yesterday,” Diana said, feeling like she had

usually stayed away from the news. However, they were

that Mark is being pressured by his family to

I enter into a contract marriage with Mark, and then break up after a year, do you think he’ll agree?”

if I date my idol, will Mark

using you as a shield against family pressure. Honestly, all