Marrying the Man in the Dark

Chapter 22 You Can’t Be So Reckless

“We were just sending you away so we could talk about things we didn’t want you to know about.”

Cherise’s actions stopped entirely.

She turned and looked at Damien with a complicated expression.

“So you didn’t have to rush back at all. Nor did you need to get yourself into such a wretched

state.”

Cherise gritted her teeth and wanted to say something, but Elvis immediately started to smooth things over. “Mr. Lenoir, Cherise was afraid you were hungry.”

“Please don’t take offense. Cherise grew up in the countryside since she was young. She views things too simply sometimes. Please pardon her.”

“Uncle Shaw!”

Cherise gritted her teeth. She didn’t think she had done anything wrong, so she couldn’t stand her uncle degrading her before Damien.

“Keep quiet, Cherise!”

Mrs. Lenoir from now on. You can’t

have a reputation as Mrs. Lenoir. It’s more

you think your breakfast is more important!”

is this?! You’re the Lenoir family’s daughter–in–law, the wealthiest family

made Damien turn away silently. He wheeled

around ten years old, no one other than the villa’s servants

climb up more than ten flights of stairs like Cherise just so he could have an earlier breakfast.

been lonely

like Elvis and Cherise argue over something as

caressed his face. He shut his eyes and had a self–deprecating smile on the corners of his lips.

“Here, your breakfast.”

ears. “I tried looking in the cafés downstairs

so I bought what was

your

turned and was faced with Cherise’s tiny, charming

down and inserting a straw into a milkshake. She looked up with a smile as she passed it to him. “I bet someone as wealthy as you hasn’t tried

she grabbed his hand and put the milkshake in it. “I

Damien’s first time trying a