Bride Behind The Mask Novel

Chapter 462

Marguerite fumbled with her seatbelt. She was confused.

Frederick, it seemed, didn’t dislike her as much as she had imagined.

A small thrill of victory zipped through her as she pondered this.

But then, as if on cue, fat snowflakes began to flutter down from the sky, quickly blanketing the streets and bringing traffic to a standstill, trapping the two of them on the road.

Marguerite had dashed out in such a rush that she only threw a peacoat over her usual dress, she didn’t even put on socks.

She felt a chill creeping in, her hands, now rosy with the cold, rubbed together for warmth.

Then came the “click” of a button being pressed, and the next thing she knew, a wave of warm air enveloped her. Suddenly, her heart felt a touch warmer, and she turned to the man beside her to ask, “Are you cold, too?”

“Mhm.” Frederick’s reply was terse, his gaze fixed on the road ahead, a picture of icy detachment.

Yet, the next moment, his eyes inadvertently flicked towards Marguerite’s exposed ankles, just beyond her boots, and his expression tightened ever so slightly.

In truth, Marguerite wanted to ask if Frederick had turned on the heat just for her, but his response made her feel like she was reading too much into it.

lifted, and even the snowy

secretly grateful for the blizzard that had stranded them together, cocooned in the tight space of the car, making Frederick seem so much

fully aware it was an illusion, but she couldn’t help wanting it to

often go ungranted, and Maurice

a bunch of messages, all of which

shattered the rare peace inside the

you coming back?” Maurice’s irritable

you

playing at? I

started the engine, and only then realized that

Marguerite hung up, frustration lacing her tone.

called, and she didn’t feel like

didn’t seem to be taking her home. Instead, he took a turn at the next junction,

puzzled. “Aren’t we going back?”

her gaze, his eyes deep and unreadable. “Dinner

blurted out a suggestion. “How about the Bluebell Bistro?”

place where Frederick had intended to confess his feelings to