Marrying the Man in the Dark

“I’m not sure,” Damien replied.

Damien lightly closed his eyes. Cherise had been preoccupied with something since morning.

He had asked her about it, but since she didn’t say anything, he decided not to press the matter further.

However, he was still feeling uneasy about it, so he ordered, “Let Blake follow her and ensure her safety.”

Cherise drove to Shawberry by herself.

She chose not to have Mr. Kolson drive, nor did she opt for a taxi.

After all, the distance from Adonia to Shawberry wasn’t too far, and many taxi drivers were reluctant to make the trip.

During the journey, Cherise pondered how to broach the topic of the conflict between the Lenoir Group and the Weiss Group with Sebastian. Unbeknownst to her, a black BMW had been tailing her since she left the Lenoir Group building.

Thirty minutes later, Cherise’s car pulled up in front of an old fried chicken shop in Shawberry.

she last visited Shawberry. Everything about the place felt both familiar and unfamiliar to her.

of home were familiar, while

the friends she had during her school days had all drifted apart.

her heart, Cherise pushed open the clean glass door

by the window, smiling downward as he played with his

vantage point, she could see that Sebastian’s phone displayed their

wasn’t a graduation photo but a class picture taken in the second half of their second year of junior high before they were reshuffled in the third year.

taken, Sebastian had to leave due to family

farewell to Cherise, “We will meet again in

time, Cherise smiled

might mean never seeing each other again in this lifetime.

the workload of the third year piled up, Cherise completely forgot about her chubby desk mate, never imagining that the chubby boy, Sebastian

from a prominent family or that he would become a

Cherise’s footsteps, Sebastian