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.’

her, he had always been

pounded the ground like

bolted out of Jack’s house and sprinted towards the Shaw

the heavy metal door and clutched the lock; her vision blurred

Sky and Tay.”

“Plumkin.”

to

through Cherise’s mind, playing

Sky’s and Tay’s hands as they strolled through

back and forth in her chair. “A kid trying to take care of a kid. What a big kiddo

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am.” Cherise said proudly.

and set them out to dry. “She’s just like

He picked a berry from the bowl and popped it into his mouth. “Was I like that?”

playfully on the back. “These are

eyes for her own kids,”

come over and get some

face lit up with a grin as she held onto Sky and

was fifteen years old, had just been accepted

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

the head gently. “Even if we are poor, we don’t need you to be the breadwinner. Your uncle can earn enough for the family.

“That’s right.”

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