Marrying the Man in the Dark

“After all, we were in love. I want to pay my respects at his grave.”

Damien furrowed his brow. “Are you saying… you were in love with my father?”

Although Damien’s parents passed away when he was young, his sister would always tell him that his parents had been each other’s first love. They had been together from their first date and throughout their marriage. It was a relationship without infidelity.

But now, Patricia claimed that she and Damien’s father had once been in love.

“That’s correct.” Patricia’s cheeks blushed slightly. “Now that I think about it, it was over twenty years ago. Your father and I met in a bar in Europe…”

A hint of bashfulness swept across Patricia’s face as she reminisced. “He was charming, and I was in the prime of my youth, so… I had a secret relationship with him behind Walter’s back.”

His frown deepened.

sure the man you were involved with was my father? Could you have mistaken him for someone else?

head. “How could I possibly confuse him? Is there another Hansen Lenoir

She gazed at Damien dreamily. “Your features bear a striking resemblance

“All of us in the

kind of man, and my parents

this, Damien stood

grabbed Damien’s arm and produced a cufflink from her pocket. “Look, doesn’t this belong

cufflink. His pupils dilated

was indeed a Lenoir family heirloom. It was a specially crafted cufflink worn with custom-made suits during

cufflink and held it in his