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.

a while since she last visited Shawberry. Everything about the place felt both

of home were familiar,

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

Cherise pushed open the clean glass door and

sat by the window, smiling downward as

Cherise’s vantage point, she could see that Sebastian’s phone displayed their junior high school class

a graduation photo but a class picture taken in the second half of their second year of junior high before they

was taken, Sebastian had to leave due

the day of his departure, he bid farewell to Cherise, “We will meet

that time, Cherise smiled and nodded, “Okay.”

that this parting might mean never seeing each other again in

mate, never imagining that the chubby boy, Sebastian Weiss, would transform into the person he is

family or that he would

from hearing Cherise’s footsteps,