From Heartbreak to Happily Ever After

Chapter 419

“It’s not too late, you know,” Marion said softly, his eyes filled with a tenderness that belied his fearsome reputation.

To the world, Marion was a specter and a messenger from the shadows. But with Debra, he was different–quiet, sometimes playful, and unruly.

He was cute and not scary at all.

“Wait here for a moment,” he said, disappearing downstairs.

When he returned, he held a plate with a cherry jam–filled cake. Its red center gleamed like a jewel.

It was quite surprising that a man like Marion would craft something so delicate. She was touched.

“Try it,” Marion urged.

Debra took a small bite. The flavors exploded in her mouth. It was a dance of sweet and tart that lingered on her tongue.

“It’s a shame you didn’t become a chef.”

to be

you mentioned being a barber too.”

“Yep.”

about your past?” Her eyes

“Sure.”

in, eager to hear his story. She’d heard whispers from Randy and Erica,

him about the

wanted to know how he managed to

had made a name for himself

also curious about why, despite being the heir, he had to endure so many hardships before finally being brought back to the

in Debra’s mind for a

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a moment

as he could remember, his mother had stilled one idea in him: revenge. She

alcoholic and then a smoker. Eventually, smoking and drinking no longer satisfied her, so she turned to drugs. Eventually, in a fit of madness, she jumped off a building.

became an unacknowledged orphan, wandering abroad. He did whatever it took to

was not the kind of person who would normally look for a successor in such

Bernard family might have been a charitable organization on the surface,