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!”

a deep breath. “You’re Mrs. Lenoir from now on. You

know that you have a reputation as Mrs. Lenoir. It’s more important than this.

think your breakfast is more important!”

the Lenoir family’s daughter–in–law, the wealthiest family in Mondale!”

noise of the uncle and niece arguing made Damien turn away silently. He wheeled himself to the window to feel the morning breeze.

around ten years old, no one other than the villa’s servants cared if he ate

ten flights of stairs like

been lonely and desolate.

when he heard ordinary people like Elvis and Cherise

shut his eyes and had a self–deprecating smile on the

“Here, your breakfast.”

ears. “I tried looking in the cafés downstairs but

sandwiches, so I bought what

your

was faced with Cherise’s tiny, charming

a milkshake. She looked up with a smile as she passed it to him. “I

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