Marrying the Man in the Dark

Chapter 390 Have You Had Dinner?

“You should have informed Charisa when Cherry was ill. Then, Charisa could have arranged for the best doctors for her.”

“Instead, you chose to accept a job from the black market and brought Cherry back to the village after she recovered.”

“Cherry said you hated going to the city. I suppose one of the reasons was that someone would discover that you set the fire thirteen years ago.”

you feared

“The other reason was that you knew Charisa had people searching for you worldwide.”

Elvis’ fingers turned pale as he clenched his fists.

After a moment, he closed his eyes and muttered, “L… was selfish.”

Suddenly, he recalled a memory from thirteen years ago. A little girl on the hospital bed reached. out her tiny hand and held his hand.

“Uncle Shaw, I don’t have parents, and I don’t want them. All I want is you and Aunt Sarah. You are nice to me.”

“People said you would send me away eventually…”

Her

were swollen from crying. She looked at him expectantly with innocent eyes. “Uncle Shaw, I’ll listen to everything you

don’t send me away,

her doll-like face and felt his heart melting into a puddle.

coaxed, “But Cherry, your birth mother is

don’t want

girl clung to his arm like it was her lifebuoy. “I don’t want anything else. All I want is to live

at Damien and replied. sadly, “I couldn’t bear to let

center and

found Cherise asleep in the study, hugging a

revision notes

of her. It was meticulous yet endearing.

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her in his arms and helped her change into pajamas before laying

“Bayes’ theorem…”

about her studies in her

covered her body with a

long as possible. She has to sit

waited for you

left the room and bumped

held a plate of warm honey garlic salmon. “Mrs. Lenoir cooked this for you. She waited for you to come home to