“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

married into the Thomas family.

even a minute after she set foot on land, Millie was met with

effort to avoid further embarrassment, Marcus

her arms around his waist and whispered, “Honey, I’m cold. I was pushed

up, and his first instinct was to push

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

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

It was Rhea who pushed me,” Millie 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 have been

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