Marrying the Man in the Dark

Chapter 22 You Can’t Be So Reckless

“We were just sending you away so we could talk about things we didn’t want you to know about.”

Cherise’s actions stopped entirely.

She turned and looked at Damien with a complicated expression.

“So you didn’t have to rush back at all. Nor did you need to get yourself into such a wretched

state.”

Cherise gritted her teeth and wanted to say something, but Elvis immediately started to smooth things over. “Mr. Lenoir, Cherise was afraid you were hungry.”

“Please don’t take offense. Cherise grew up in the countryside since she was young. She views things too simply sometimes. Please pardon her.”

“Uncle Shaw!”

Cherise gritted her teeth. She didn’t think she had done anything wrong, so she couldn’t stand her uncle degrading her before Damien.

“Keep quiet, Cherise!”

from now on. You can’t be so reckless!”

you have a reputation as Mrs. Lenoir. It’s

your breakfast is

this?! You’re the Lenoir family’s daughter–in–law, the wealthiest family in Mondale!”

uncle and niece arguing made Damien turn away silently. He wheeled

around ten years old, no one other than the villa’s servants

than ten flights of stairs like Cherise just so he could have an earlier

had always been lonely

when he heard ordinary people like Elvis and Cherise argue over something as simple

morning breeze caressed his face. He shut his eyes and

“Here, your breakfast.”

“I tried looking in the

sandwiches, so I bought what

your

and was faced with Cherise’s tiny, charming

a straw into a milkshake. She looked up with a smile as she passed it to him. “I bet someone as wealthy as you hasn’t tried this

he wasn’t taking it from her, she grabbed his hand and put the

was Damien’s first time trying a milkshake outside.