Marrying the Man in the Dark

Chapter 495 Shaw Or Neller?

“Cherise”

Mr. Tanner spoke with a furrowed brow during dinner. His voice was low and filled with concern, “Do you have something on your mind?”

Cherise quickly snapped back to reality. “No, nothing.”

“You’re telling me there’s nothing bothering you?”

Gwenn retorted with an eye-roll, her tone laced with annoyance. “You just reached for the food in my bowl, didn’t you?”

Cherise was taken aback.

She quickly realized she had indeed extended her fork into Gwenn’s bowl, even picking up a piece of vegetable from it.

She withdrew her hand at once, gave an embarrassed smile, and lowered her head to continue eating.

“Cherise, what did you do today?”

Mr. Tanner sighed softly and asked.

“Both your father and Damien are busy today. It’s just the three of us here at dinner tonight. If something’s troubling you, let me know.”

Cherise shook her head. “It’s… nothing.”

“What else could it be?”

scoffed, eating with an icy demeanor. “You must be

want

name Shaw holds more weight than our

why are you belittling yourself like this?”

change her name, to

this way, no matter the truth, she would remain the only Miss Tanner

not be sharing this title with anyone else!

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“Silence!”

turned to Cherise. “Cherise, are you still considering changing your

looked earnestly

up my mind. I want to take

my identity to the public and provide me with shelter, you may do it anytime. But please

expected the once hesitant Cherise to

“Taking your mother’s surname isn’t out of the question.

to take the

and chuckled in realization. “How foolish of me.”

to begin with. It was only after her

should be Neller,

is a bit of

still prefer Cherise,

my mother today.”

“Mother…”

had done for