Marrying the Man in the Dark

Chapter 412 Jumble Of Memories

“Don’t interfere in other people’s lives. Do you hear me?”

“Uncle,” Cherise sobbed.

Cherise wept uncontrollably, her eyes fixed on the man on the screen.

Memories of sitting on her uncle’s lap and begging him not to send her away flooded her mind.

“Silly girl,” her uncle had assured her, “I won’t have the heart to send you away.”

“Don’t forget that you begged me to keep you here.”

“Promise me you’ll never search for your biological parents.”

Cherise, who was seven at that time, nodded her head. “Alright.”

“You are the best, Uncle Shaw. I promise I won’t find them!”

Cherise’s tears streamed down her cheeks, her gaze fixed on Elvis’ face on the screen.

Uncle Shaw… is the best person I know.

But she didn’t feel like the best daughter.

She had never called him ‘Dad.’

to her, he had always been

rain pounded the ground like a relentless drumbeat.

and sprinted towards the Shaw family’s home.

herself at the heavy metal door and clutched the lock;

and Tay.”

“Plumkin.”

to go home…”

Cherise’s mind, playing out like a film

and Tay’s hands as they strolled

softly as she rocked back and forth in her chair. “A kid trying to take care of a kid. What

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am.” Cherise said proudly.

just

his bare shoulders gleaming in the sunlight. He picked a berry from the bowl and

him playfully on the back. “These are for

only has eyes for her own kids,”

get some from me.”

lit up with a grin as she held onto Sky and Tay’s hands. “Uncle Shaw is still

next montage played-Cherise, who was fifteen years old, had just been accepted

tears as she clung to her grandmother. I don’t want to go to school. We don’t even have enough money to

if we are poor, we don’t need you to be the breadwinner.

“That’s right.”

and I won’t even be able to get into school. We’ll need you to