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.’

had always

pounded the ground like

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

and clutched the lock; her vision blurred

and

“Plumkin.”

to go

through Cherise’s mind, playing out like a film

she tightly gripped Sky’s and

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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course I am.”

set them out to dry. “She’s just like her uncle,

over to Aunt Sarah with a mischievous grin, his bare shoulders gleaming in the sunlight. He

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

only has eyes for her own kids,” she said with

get some from me.”

held onto Sky

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

want to

don’t need you to be the breadwinner. Your uncle can earn enough for the family. Don’t

“That’s right.”

Tay and I won’t even be able to get into school. We’ll need you to care for us in