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!”

“You’re Mrs. Lenoir from now on. You can’t be

must know that you have a reputation as Mrs. Lenoir. It’s

think your breakfast is more important!”

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

away silently. He wheeled himself to the window to feel the morning breeze.

one other than the villa’s

would ever climb up more than ten flights of stairs like Cherise

always been lonely and

contented when he heard ordinary people like Elvis and Cherise argue over something as

shut his eyes and had a self–deprecating

“Here, your breakfast.”

his ears. “I tried looking in

and sandwiches, so I bought what was available. Don’t turn it down.”

your

was faced with Cherise’s

looking down and inserting a straw into a milkshake. She looked up with a smile as she passed it to him. “I bet someone

taking it from her, she grabbed his hand and put

was Damien’s first time trying a milkshake