A Beauty With Multiple Masks

Mark felt dejected when he saw Linda’s indifferent expression.

Does she care so much about the Duke?

Her attitude toward me changed when all I did was let a few people go.

“Linda, I have my own reasons for doing this.” Mark was quite heartbroken.

He did all that for the sake of their future.

“Your own reasons? What reasons? Don’t you know that you’re betraying His Grace by doing that?” Linda yelled with a suppressed voice.

“Linda, we already betrayed him the moment we slept together…” Mark looked at her intently.

Linda staggered a few steps back in a daze upon hearing his words.

Have I already betrayed His Grace?

“Linda, I love you, and I cannot live without you. Do you know how heartbroken I am to see you with him?”

and held her tightly in his arms,

He just uses her as a tool to satisfy his

can’t he allow us to

heart clenched, and she

I’m the one who took the first

worried about you. If

the Duke. After all, they were both groomed by the Duke, and they both knew the Duke’s way of doing things. If he found out, the consequences would

against the wall and clasped the back of her head. Subsequently, he unbuttoned her shirt and lowered his

they would be discovered. Hence, she restrained herself from making any noise and reached to clutch Mark’s hair, yearning for

“Mark… Mark…”

wrapped Linda in his embrace and kissed her lips. “You should just

you trying to do? Please don’t do something that can’t be undone.”

I’m doing. Be careful on your

glanced at

expression turned grim amidst the darkness. Ever since the Duke forced himself on Linda right in front of Mark, he had lost all loyalty and respect toward the

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men to the warehouse to move the firearms. When the guards stationed at the warehouse spotted