Marrying the Man in the Dark

Chapter 24 Blue Darts

Eriana was an annoying troublemaker. Cherise didn’t want to be involved with her.

But Cherise never thought Eriana’s underlings would ambush her at the school’s back door.

The school’s isolated and uninhabited back door was overgrown with weeds.

Lucy pulled Cherise to the back door. They had just left when the hooligans guarding the back door surrounded them.

“I’m right. You really left from the back door.”

The crafty leader smiled maliciously. “I haven’t seen you in a long time, Chèrry.”

The man looked like a criminal. Lucy frowned slightly. “Who is this?”

Cherise took a deep breath. “Aunt Eriana’s son, Nicky Gruber.”

Nicky was three years older than Cherise but kept repeating grades because of his poor results. When Cherise sat for her SATS, Nicky had just gotten into a dubious, third–rate school in Adania.

He had sinister thoughts about Cherise since they were young. He had even tried to force her to…

uncle hadn’t reached in time, she would have taken her own life at the

Cherise thought of how she had been bullied by Nicky in the past, a wave of nausea emerged uncontrollably in her heart.

retreated subconsciously, but Nicky’s friends were behind her.

have you never come to

“If

school was, I wouldn’t have known my beloved cousin was in

with a sneer. “I haven’t seen you in a few years. You’re

suggestively, giving Lucy

of Cherise. “You’re

such nasty things,

cigarette hung from the corner of Nicky’s mouth.

while approaching Cherise. “Cherise, come here and let me

her side were clenched into fists.

lips and glared straight at him. “Don’t come near

to do if I come to you?”

maliciously and leaned closer to

man behind Cherise held her hands to

approached

A sharp dart landed on Nicky’s