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.

he said with

to Marguerite, he exuded an air of command that seemed to weigh down the atmosphere. “Get in

stood her ground, unflinching.

Teresa here

Maurice snapped, his voice rising sharply in warning. “No man can tolerate the humiliation of being cuckolded. My patience has limits, and I hope

as a cucumber, her gaze meeting his steadily. “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.

with that last remark. She wasn’t worried Frederick would harm Teresa; she just wanted

a pang of loss. Nothing hurt more

constant reminder that she didn’t even

between Frederick

that his love had worn away, she had

would only fuel

the intensity of his love in the past was now