Marrying the Man in the Dark

Chapter 30 Shouldn’t Family Members Help Each Other?

Cherise shook her head. She pushed him to the elevator and said earnestly, “We can be intimate at home. We don’t have to do this…”

“For example?”

“Like on the couch, and… in bed, and…‘

The man scratched his lips indifferently. “You can be on top too.”

Cherise was dumbstruck.

Perhaps it was easier to feel sleepy on a full stomach. On the way to Lenoir Manor from Garden Paradise, Cherise leaned back in the genuine leather seat and fell asleep in a daze.

A sharp ringtone awoke her from her dreams after some time.

She reached out for her cell phone, half–conscious, and answered. “Hello……”

“Cherise, it’s Aunt Eriana.”

Eriana’s insincere voice rang on the other end. “I’m in Adania Hospital now. Your cousin got into a fight and is severely injured. I didn’t bring any money. Can you…”

“No.”

deep breath, and her voice instantly hardened. She said coldly, “Aunt

don’t have much money, but

at home… No, your husband…”

him. It’s not mine.”

from the woman’s voice on the other end of the phone. She crawled out of bed and realized she was lying

fall asleep and sleepwalk back to the

“Cherise?”

the phone and shouted in displeasure when she was greeted with silence. “Cherise, I don’t often call you or ask for help, but you’re

you a lot back when you were in the

cold as she held her cell

better for Eriana not to mention what had happened in the past because Cherise couldn’t muster any sympathy for her when she

so she ran to Eriana’s house to borrow Nicky’s old textbooks. In the end, Eriana had shamed her, and she had helped to do a week’s worth of farm work before Eriana was willing to lend

Still, Eriana was now saying that

her breath and hung up.

prepared to let it

her multiple times, disturbing Cherise so much that she was no longer feeling sleepy.

phone off and went downstairs to make herself a glass of

she thought Damien might still be awake, so