Marrying the Man in the Dark

Chapter 24 Blue Darts

Eriana was an annoying troublemaker. Cherise didn’t want to be involved with her.

But Cherise never thought Eriana’s underlings would ambush her at the school’s back door.

The school’s isolated and uninhabited back door was overgrown with weeds.

Lucy pulled Cherise to the back door. They had just left when the hooligans guarding the back door surrounded them.

“I’m right. You really left from the back door.”

The crafty leader smiled maliciously. “I haven’t seen you in a long time, Chèrry.”

The man looked like a criminal. Lucy frowned slightly. “Who is this?”

Cherise took a deep breath. “Aunt Eriana’s son, Nicky Gruber.”

Nicky was three years older than Cherise but kept repeating grades because of his poor results. When Cherise sat for her SATS, Nicky had just gotten into a dubious, third–rate school in Adania.

He had sinister thoughts about Cherise since they were young. He had even tried to force her to…

If her uncle hadn’t reached in time, she would have taken her own life at the scene.

thought of how she had been bullied by Nicky in the past, a wave of nausea emerged uncontrollably in her heart.

retreated subconsciously, but Nicky’s friends were behind her.

you never come to look

“If

didn’t ask me where your school was, I wouldn’t have known my beloved cousin was

haven’t seen you in a few years. You’re glowing, Cherry!”

smiled suggestively, giving Lucy goosebumps.

stood in front of Cherise. “You’re not worthy to

say such nasty things,

of Nicky’s mouth. He indicated

“Cherise, come here and let me look at you.”

hands by her side were clenched into

lips and glared straight at him. “Don’t come

going to do if I come to you?”

and leaned closer to her.

her hands

approached Cherise crudely…

landed on Nicky’s

pain, and his other leg knelt on the