Bride Behind The Mask Novel

Chapter 50

Chapter 50

“Is that really you?” Frederick asked in disbelief, “You’ve changed so much?”

Marguerite shrugged it off. “So, are you saying I’m ugly now? All kids look pretty much the same, and mind you, I was only a few days old then.”

Frederick’s eyes were glued to the photo. It was of a lively old lady holding a baby in swaddling clothes, both beaming brightly.

Snow was falling around them, but the old lady’s clothes were thin and shabby. It was a heart-wrenching sight.

No wonder Marguerite was taken in by the Lockwood family. The old lady seemed not to have the means to raise a child.

Did her parents abandon her right after she was born?

Frederick wanted to ask Marguerite about her parents and consider if he should help her find them, but he decided against it.

Marguerite never mentioned her parents or grandma, probably because it hurt too much.

He didn’t want to reopen her wounds.

At this point, she was very much like him.

Even though he now successfully controlled the entire Winston Group, his childhood experience of being driven out of the family by his father was still a painful

scar.

never talked about it and didn’t want to recall that

he felt a mysterious connection with Marguerite. Their similar experiences evoked deep sympathy in him.

carefully at the photo, then hesitantly

a more peculiar

he had seen the old lady somewhere before.

seems

to his desk,

think much of Frederick’s words. She shrugged, looking at the photo. “True beauty comes from within. My granny

world.”

her a sapphire necklace with a floral pattern, but it had mysteriously disappeared, and she

then looked at Frederick, tentatively asking, “Do you remember if I lost a necklace in your room? Have you seen it?”

scanning through some documents and didn’t look at her. “Are you sure you lost it in

her lip, her gaze

She wasn’t sure.

day, when she lost the necklace, she had been to many

then bluntly said, “If you lost it,

said it so casually. Did he think everything could be bought with money?

for words:

with the company for

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