Marrying the Man in the Dark

Chapter 26 A Burden

Cherise’s figure trembled slightly. She subconsciously turned to glance at Damien next to her.

The man was still leaning back in his chair like before. He hadn’t moved.

She took a deep breath and picked up the pen to write her reply. ‘Of course, he isn’t mute. He speaks!‘

‘So why isn’t he saying anything?”

Cherise wrinkled her brows as she looked at what Lucy had written.

That’s right. Why isn’t he saying anything?

Since Blake had pushed him to the school’s back door, he didn’t seem to have said anything until

now.

She bit her lips and racked her brains before she sighed. ‘Damien must be angry.

‘Why is he angry?‘

‘Perhaps he feels like he married a burden.

Perhaps when Damien married her, he never thought her family would be so complicated.

Not only did she have aunts who wanted money from her uncle, but she also had a shameless cousin like Nicky.

‘A burden?‘

the word Cherise used.

don’t like troublesome people. My relatives are very troublesome.

the pen in

time, she wrote down her worst thought. ‘Perhaps he’s already planning

me.‘

had boundless

leaned back in his chair and shook his head subtly. A trace of

arrived at an intersection near Lucy’s house.

get down here.”

Kolson before patting Cherise’s shoulder gently. “Don’t think of the worst.”

Cherise leaned in her chair and was lost in thought as she watched the landscape outside the

think of

wasn’t thinking of the worst now.

cousin always treated

in her ears when she was

and turned. The man, whose eyes were covered with black silk, was still in his previous posture as he leaned back. A thoughtful expression was on his face.

her lips. “I’m thinking about what to eat for dinner.”

the corners of the man’s lips. “Have

was restless, and she wanted him to stop asking her. “Not…

change. I happen to want something different

indifferently to Mr. Kolson, who was driving. “To Garden Paradise.”

Kolson was slightly taken aback. “Are you sure, Mr. Lenoir?”