Marrying the Man in the Dark

Chapter 196 Broken Trust

As Cherise walked past him, she casually stretched her hand out to touch his chest.

What she felt left her stunned-his heart was pounding like a drum.

It does affect him’ she thought.

Initially, she had no intention to test if he was really blind. If she truly believed Jan’s words, she would have come up with an intricate plan-it was not difficult for someone who had always been passing her exams with flying colors.

Her actions had been more of a half-hearted test because she trusted him completely.

However, his pulse rate was far beyond the average range,

Cherise withdrew her hand sharply as if she had been electrocuted. As she entered the kitchen. she felt her blood run cold.

Something else must have been causing his unusual heart rate! It can’t possibly be because of how I look right now. He’s blind!

She bumped into a glass door before the kitchen, and the plate in her hand fell to the ground with a loud crash.

porcelain fragments, she began to see them as a metaphor for her broken

trust.

“Cherry.”

her with a look of

at his gait. He walked to her steadily and calmly, without any hesitation or any

she had no clue how to face him.

to him that something was wrong with her. He held

hands away before crouching to pick up the broken pieces. “I accidentally-

brushed against the shards, causing them to scratch her. Blood oozed from the wound onto the white porcelain pieces.

frowned and pulled her hand to him. “Did something

was just fine this afternoon before heading out. I’ve been so busy with work and

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got back, she was already in this

in behavior to

not normal for her to suddenly take

lips without

bleeding hand and carried her to the couch before turning around again