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

ground like a relentless drumbeat.

and sprinted towards the

herself at the heavy metal door and

Sky and

“Plumkin.”

want to go

through Cherise’s mind, playing out

was five, she tightly gripped Sky’s and Tay’s hands

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

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I am.”

and set them out to dry. “She’s just like her uncle, always trying to act like a

mischievous grin, his bare shoulders gleaming in the sunlight. He picked a berry from the bowl and popped it into his mouth. “Was

playfully on the back. “These are for the kids, Elvis. Put it

lips curled into a fond smile. “Sarah only has eyes for her own kids,” she said

some from me.” Grandma said.

with a grin as she held onto Sky and Tay’s hands. “Uncle Shaw is still a kid at heart!”

was fifteen years old, had just been

want to go to school. We don’t even have enough money to survive.”

don’t need you to be the

“That’s right.”

able to get into school. We’ll need you to care for