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.”

through the same process, she collapsed

water, revealing her curvy, toned figure. Her dark,

her from the water before carrying her to the bed.

Dr. Caldwell here,” he barked into

by the bed, gently wiping the water droplets off her

towel.

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to him about what she had been through recently.

the rest of her life with him was an empty promise. She had never once

her friend. To her, he was her employer

wife, but she

they were at Lenoir Residence. He could clearly. remember her big, doe-eyes staring

my spouse from now on. I will always be

that night still rang

against her soft lips and said softly, “I’ve never thought of you as

burden.”

thought of me

daze, her lips pouted, and

for a long moment before realizing that she was mimicking the gesture of

he thought about how she had come to him, the man’s dark and inscrutable