Marrying the Man in the Dark

Chapter 390 Have You Had Dinner?

“You should have informed Charisa when Cherry was ill. Then, Charisa could have arranged for the best doctors for her.”

“Instead, you chose to accept a job from the black market and brought Cherry back to the village after she recovered.”

“Cherry said you hated going to the city. I suppose one of the reasons was that someone would discover that you set the fire thirteen years ago.”

you feared

“The other reason was that you knew Charisa had people searching for you worldwide.”

Elvis’ fingers turned pale as he clenched his fists.

After a moment, he closed his eyes and muttered, “L… was selfish.”

Suddenly, he recalled a memory from thirteen years ago. A little girl on the hospital bed reached. out her tiny hand and held his hand.

“Uncle Shaw, I don’t have parents, and I don’t want them. All I want is you and Aunt Sarah. You are nice to me.”

“People said you would send me away eventually…”

Her

eyes were swollen from crying. She looked at him expectantly with innocent eyes. “Uncle Shaw, I’ll listen to everything you say. I’ll be good.”

“Please don’t send me away, okay?”

time, he looked at her doll-like face and felt his heart melting into a puddle.

gently coaxed, “But Cherry, your birth mother is

don’t want her!”

to his arm like it was her lifebuoy. “I don’t want anything else. All I want is to live in

eyes in the cold detention center room. He looked at

in the detention center and talked to

found Cherise asleep in the study, hugging a book.

revision notes and smiled.

her. It was

1/2

carried her in his arms and helped her change into pajamas before

“Bayes’ theorem…”

studies in

amused. He covered her body with a

finding out about Elvis for as long as possible. She has to

for

tucking Cherise in bed, Damien left the room and bumped into Frances.

warm honey garlic salmon. “Mrs. Lenoir cooked this for you. She waited for you to come home to try it, but…”

you like to have it in the study or

to the dining room.”

smiled and went

Frances followed him.

stood behind him