Marrying the Man in the Dark

Chapter 158 Where’s Ian?

Violet clenched her fists in silent frustration.

Cherise returned to school to find Lucy lounging in the infirmary, engrossed in a phone game. She furrowed her brow and reached out to block Lucy’s phone screen. “Where’s

Ian?”

Lucy shot her a disdainful look, adjusted her phone, and continued playing. “He’s gone.”

“Just like that?” Cherise bit her lip, realizing she hadn’t thanked Ian properly for helping with her injury.

Lucy leaned back. “Well, it’s better he split than stick around and make a fool of himself. I mean, he’d never compete with me to be your kid’s godparent.”

Cherise was puzzled. “What do you mean by ‘making a fool of himself and ‘being my child’s godparent”?”

Caught off guard, Lucy cleared her throat and mumbled, “I didn’t say anything. Your must’ve misheard.”

Cherise’s intuition told her something was up between Lucy and Ian.

She snatched Lucy’s phone, demanding, “Tell me what happened!”

got rid of that lan guy. He knew you were married but kept pestering

lifting that chair was just a scare tactic. He rushed in

guy like him being gone is a win for you and Damien!”

Cherise’s stunned state and snatched her phone back. Unfortunately, when Cherise took her phone, her in-game character had been defeated, and her opponent had wiped out

on the screen, Lucy was upset and shot Cherise a resentful glance. “You owe

I helped you, and you delayed my game?!”

pressed her

badly about lan

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deep breath, suppressing her anger, and looked earnestly at Lucy. “Ian isn’t

person you’re saying.”

used to be someone I admired, our high school

he came to see me just to thank me or wanted

didn’t have the full picture earlier. When he saw someone being unkind to me, he stepped in to help out of sheer kindness.”

Her

“We’re all from the same background; helping each other

he did get hurt trying to protect me. I haven’t had a chance to thank

thinker, but she understood the basics of human. relationships and principles. Her aunt had