Marrying the Man in the Dark

Chapter 21 Breakfast Isn’t Ruined

“After all, ordinary people won’t devise a plan to make their ‘niece, which they brought up for two decades, marry a stranger to save their mother.”

Elvis‘ face paled slightly. “I didn’t have any other way.”

“Cherise just has bad luck.”

He looked at Damien and wanted to say something but stopped.

After a long time, he sighed. “Mr. Lenoir, Cherise is a great girl. I hope you can treat her well.”

“Even if you don’t like her… Don’t hurt her too much if you don’t want her in the future.”

Elvis spoke meekly.

This was the first thing Cherise heard Elvis say. She was perspiring after climbing the stairs while holding breakfast.

She was about to open the door of the stairwell. Her hand froze slightly, and her footsteps instantly stopped as though her feet were pinned to the ground.

made of alloy, but it seemed to weigh a thousand pounds then. Cherise couldn’t open the door.

any of your

as usual. “You should pray that your mother can live longer since you tried to save her at the expense of Cherise’s youth. You made Cherise pay the price

it isn’t

were clenched into fists at his

clenched at the stairwell as she carried the food.

is someone

rang behind her.

a man

the woman against

was the one who had screamed.

her senses, they looked at her in astonishment.

before her was too blinding. Cherise turned away and pushed the door, wanting to leave. But she was careless from

Therefore…

down on the marble floor in a weird posture

at the

them crawled up from the floor. She was covered in dirt, and

up the food and looked at the contents foolishly. After that, she lifted her

sighed in exasperation and walked over quickly. As he took the breakfast from her, he helped brush the hair in her mouth away and dust off the