Marrying the Man in the Dark

Chapter 997 Unyielding Embrace

After pronouncing those words, he firmly clasped Cherise’s shoulders, guiding her into the car with purpose, and followed suit, enveloping her in his embrace as they settled inside the vehicle.

Throughout the journey, Cherise hurled curses at him, her anger simmering beneath the surface like a tempestuous sea.

Her ire stemmed from Damien’s confining of her freedom and his inexplicable failure to offer an explanation.

Why, she pondered, did he not clarify if he was facing difficulties?

Why did he remain silent if the situation did not align with Sebastian’s depiction?

Given her current feeling explanation he provided.

him, he should have known that she would unquestionably believe any

Yet, he uttered not a single word of clarification.

Did he truly lack an explanation, or did he feel absolved of the obligation to offer one?

What, she questioned, did he perceive her as?

An object?

A pet?

Or perhaps merely a plaything devoid of memories, past, or the capacity for independent thought?

In truth, she harbored doubt regarding Sebastian’s assertions concerning their relationship.

repulsive, while

she entertained the notion that the version of herself devoid of

could have been entangled with Damien amidst an arranged union resembling a transaction, compounded

ceaseless internal conflict, she yearned for resolution.

from Damien, a familiar and

not the same Cherise you once knew,” she

to embody a clarity that discerns between love and hatred,” she continued, her

those emotions, I cannot

depths of her being, she exhaled a deep sigh. “Let us

dissolve our union,” she implored.

his grip on her

you oppose my decision?” she questioned, her tone laced with

begun as a transaction and later entangled

that chapter has long been closed.”

“I swore an oath never to let you slip away from me in this lifetime,” he asserted,

me?” Cherise challenged,

longer the Cherise of yesteryears!” she declared, her

would relinquish all for love! I possess reason and intellect,” she asserted boldly, her conviction

as he regarded her with an

the former Cherise was a woman governed solely by her emotions, devoid of

nodding in affirmation.

his expression inscrutable as

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