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

rain pounded the ground like a

and sprinted towards the Shaw

heavy metal door and clutched the

Sky and Tay.”

“Plumkin.”

want to go

flickered through Cherise’s mind, playing out

gripped Sky’s and Tay’s hands as

in her chair. “A kid trying to

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I am.” Cherise said proudly.

just like

shoulders gleaming in the sunlight. He picked

are for the kids, Elvis. Put

eyes for her own kids,” she said with a twinkle in her

come over and get some

she held onto Sky and Tay’s hands. “Uncle

old, had just been accepted into one of the

grandmother. I don’t want to go to

the head gently. “Even if we are poor, we don’t need you to be the breadwinner. Your

“That’s right.”

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