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.”

hardened. She said coldly, “Aunt Eriana, you should know I’m

“I know you don’t

man at home…

to him. It’s

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

asleep and sleepwalk back

“Cherise?”

displeasure when she was greeted with silence. “Cherise, I don’t often call you or ask for help, but you’re acting like this?”

We helped you a lot back when

as

to mention what had happened in the past because Cherise

her uncle and aunt save money, 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

how Eriana had shamed her back then. Still, Eriana was now saying that family members should

held her breath and

how could Eriana be prepared to let it go?

her multiple times, disturbing Cherise so much that she

phone off and went downstairs to make herself a glass of warm

milk, she thought Damien might still