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 her

ground like a relentless

and sprinted towards the Shaw family’s home.

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

and Tay.”

“Plumkin.”

to go home…”

flickered through Cherise’s mind, playing out like a film

five, she tightly gripped Sky’s and Tay’s hands as they strolled through the garden.

rocked back and forth in her chair. “A kid trying to take care of a kid. What a big kiddo you are!”

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I am.”

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

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

are for the kids, Elvis. Put it down!”

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

over and get some

up with a grin as she held onto Sky and Tay’s hands.

next montage played-Cherise, who was fifteen years old, had just been accepted into one of the most

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

we are poor, we don’t need you to be the breadwinner. Your uncle can earn enough

“That’s right.”

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