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!”

breath. “You’re Mrs. Lenoir from now on. You can’t be

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

to me, you think your breakfast

the Lenoir family’s

silently. He wheeled himself to the window to feel

ten years old, no one other than the

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

always been lonely and desolate.

he felt contented when he heard ordinary people like Elvis

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

“Here, your breakfast.”

rang in his ears. “I tried looking in the cafés downstairs but couldn’t

I bought what was available. Don’t turn it

your

with Cherise’s tiny,

up with a smile as she

her, she grabbed his hand and put the milkshake in it. “I carried

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