Bride Behind the Mask novel Chapter 501

"You're full of it!" Yuna sobbed, kneeling and clutching Frederick's leg, tears and snot mixing as she pleaded, “Freddie! You can't just take her word for it! She's Marguerite Lockwood's daughter for heaven's sake! You know how much Marguerite despises me! She’s just parroting her mother's words! Freddie, why on earth would you believe a stranger over me? After all, I’ve given you twins!”

Yuna tried to play the children card again, but Frederick’s expression was unyielding and grim, his eyes filled with a chilling wrath that seemed to wish her straight to hell, never to find peace again.

"Children? Do you even remember that Hayes is your son?"

"Freddie, I...I..."

Their argument terrified little Teresa, who burrowed into Marguerite's embrace, her cries tinged with fear, pitiful beyond words, "Mommy, protect me! I'm so scared!"

Marguerite grabbed Teresa into her arms, then moved towards Hayes' hospital bed, her other hand brushing his cold, frighteningly clammy cheek.

Marguerite was wrapped in an unprecedented fear as she turned to Frederick in panic, “Hayes is so cold! What do we do?”

Frederick's nerves snapped tight. He kicked Yuna aside and strode over, reaching out to check Hayes' pulse.

Seeing that both of them were distracted, Yuna’s mind raced with thoughts of escape.

She knew she was in deep trouble and that escape was her only chance of survival. She had to take Manley and get out of Stonebridge City!

With that thought, she scrambled to her feet and dashed for the door.

But as soon as she flung it open, Chuck stood there with a host of doctors, blocking the exit.

Beside him stood the intern from yesterday who had given Hayes a blood transfusion!

What was she doing here?

Hadn’t she been fired by the hospital?