Marrying the Man in the Dark

Chapter 51 Pushing Herself Despite the Exhaustion

He was waiting for her to cave in and beg him for mercy. Once completely drained, she would share everything she had been hiding from him.

But Cherise didn’t crack.

“It’s ready,” she said, dipping her hands into the bathtub to test the water temperature. She turned to him with a smile. “You can get in now.”

Damien’s frustration was mounting as he stepped into the bathtub.

Cherise lowered her head and began to scrub his body with a towel. She used a lighter. touch than before but still made no effort to plead.

The man narrowed his eyes as he watched her. The color drained from her face, but she stood her ground. “Again.”

Cherise was well aware that he was doing this to her intentionally.

“Did I do something wrong?”

Damien huffed at her. He then pointed at the bathtub and ordered, “Change the water.”

Cherise clenched her jaw. She felt like she had been drained of every ounce of energy but didn’t give up. She filled the tub with clean water, tested the temperature, and helped him. into the bathtub.

“Again.”

“Again.”

“It’s not enough.”

after endlessly going through the same process, she collapsed

toned figure. Her dark,

eyes and pulled her from the water before carrying her to the

Caldwell here,” he barked into

he sat by the bed, gently wiping

towel.

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to him about what she

him was an empty promise. She had never once considered him her husband.

her friend. To her, he was her employer or someone she was

the thought. He treated her as his wife, but she never once genuinely thought of him as her husband.

he recalled the night they were at Lenoir Residence. He could clearly. remember her big,

are my spouse from now on. I will always be

still rang in

brushed his fingers against her soft lips and said softly, “I’ve

burden.”

you ever thought of me as

a daze, her lips pouted, and her hands

moment before realizing that she was

had come to him, the man’s dark and inscrutable expression