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.

must know that you have a reputation as Mrs. Lenoir. It’s more important than this. dispensable

me, you think your

nonsense is this?! You’re the Lenoir family’s

and niece arguing made Damien turn away silently. He wheeled

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

flights of stairs like Cherise just so he could

been lonely

he heard ordinary people like Elvis and Cherise argue over something

eyes and had a self–deprecating

“Here, your breakfast.”

crisp voice rang in his ears. “I tried looking in

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

your

and was faced with

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

seeing that he wasn’t taking it from her, she grabbed his hand and put the milkshake in it. “I carried it

was Damien’s first time trying a milkshake outside.