“What the hell are you doing? Climb out of the water now!”

Millie understood now why Marcus looked so terrified when he saw her earlier under the water.

Her strength had finally dwindled to the point that she could no longer swim. She touched the fake scar on her face and shrugged. She had nothing to worry about as she had been pretending to be a grotesquely unattractive woman, anyway.

With that in mind, she climbed to the shore with her head held high.

Instantly, the other guests started talking among themselves about her appearance.

“Damn, she looks horrendous! That’s one hell of a scar.”

she’s ugly would be

into the Thomas family. I’m ten times more beautiful than

on land, Millie was met with a barrage of

Marcus turned

dramatically threw herself into his arms. She wrapped her arms around his waist and

his first instinct was

pity welled up unexpectedly inside him when he realized how much Millie was shivering as she

say you were pushed?” Marcus asked in

have drowned if he had not jumped in to save her, and it took him considerable effort to free her ankle from the tangle of water

grumbled. “She just barged up to me and said you belonged to her and that you’d marry her if I died. You saw it yourself. I almost died there. There were water weeds wrapped around my ankle. If you hadn’t come to save me, I wouldn’t

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