Bride Behind The Mask Novel

Chapter 513

Maurice doted on Teresa like she was his little princess. Looking down into her big, doe eyes, he asked with a wry smile, “Sweetie, if I put you down, will you come home with me?”

Teresa pouted adorably, her eyes twinkling like grapes in a vineyard, and nodded her head with an irresistible cuteness. “Of course! Daddy, if you put me down, I’ll go home with you.”

Maurice was a goner when it came to Teresa’s charms. As he reluctantly set her down, he never expected the little rascal to make a break for it, darting into the wall of bodyguards and sticking her tongue out at him.

“Daddy, if you want to take Mommy away, then go ahead, but I’m not moving! Bye-bye, Daddy!”

She waved at him mockingly, then turned tail and disappeared faster than a rabbit down its hole.

That little trickster!

Maurice had planned to use Teresa as leverage to bring Marguerite back home, but the tables had turned. Teresa had played him like a fiddle, and he’d fallen for it.

His handsome face clouded over, his aura darkening as he glared at the human barricade set up by Frederick. He knew breaking through was a lost cause.

want to repeat myself,” he said with

of command that seemed to weigh

her

to leave Teresa here at the hospital all

tolerate the humiliation of being cuckolded. My patience has limits,

“You’re overthinking it. Even if I wanted to make you a laughing stock, it would have to be consensual between me and the other man. And since he despises me so, I’m not comfortable leaving Teresa alone

worried Frederick would harm Teresa; she just wanted an excuse to stay

deny feeling a pang of loss. Nothing hurt more than facing

reminder that she didn’t even

over between Frederick and me.”

had said that his love had worn away, she had made up

entanglement would only fuel Frederick’s disdain.

the past was now