Marrying the Man in the Dark

Soren was taken aback by Serafina’s bold confidence. He scoffed, “I doubt it.”

Serafina pouted, ready to retaliate, when a sharp knock at the door silenced her.

Before Beckham could speak, Serafina quickly adopted Soren’s bossy demeanor and interrupted him. “Hey, Ren, door duty! Grandpa and I are busy!”

Soren glared at her. With a grumbling sigh, he abandoned his Rubik’s Cube and made his way to the door.

The door swung open to reveal Cherise and Damien, carrying bags of groceries.

Cherise and Damien entered, burdened with groceries. “Ren! We haven’t seen our little man since yesterday!” Cherise exclaimed, embracing him.

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Soren squirmed in her arms, grumbling, “Ms. Shaw, you’re practically an adult can we skip the baby talk? It’s embarrassing.”

Cherise was stunned.

laughter and dropped his bags. “Right

could asking her son

with Serafina’s braid neatly tied with a bright pink band. “What’s going on? Why are you two

pointed at the ingredients Damien was carrying, a smile spreading across her face.

dinner! We haven’t had one in ages. Damien decided

spices on the counter, he paused for a moment, his

cooking?” a sweet voice had said to

as she continued, “Whoa, it’s way past eleven! Let’s grab some essentials and go to Dad’s. I’m preparing a feast to cheer

aisles, Damien noticed a pattern. All the ingredients were for dishes he

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a suspicion that she was scheming something, and voila! This woman