Marrying the Man in the Dark

Beckham shook his head.

“You’re young. It’s only too late if you’re at my age and in my situation. If I had been braver, smarter, and tried harder when I was young, maybe the situation would have changed.”

With a hint of regret in his eyes, the man continued, I had so much time, so many years… and yet I never noticed her existence… It was already too late when I finally found her. You’re luckier than me. At least you know she’s still alive. She’s still living somewhere out there.”

Lennon forced a bitter smile.

“I’m still going to do what I can. It’s just that…”

For Lucy, perhaps even doing whatever he could was far from enough.

The harm he caused to her was irreversible.

Even though he only realized how much he had hurt her in the end.

“Keep going.”

Beckham clinked his glass against Lennon’s lightly to encourage him.

with Beckham, followed by Lennon. “Mr. Belcourt, I don’t know what you’ve been through. But don’t lose

chuckled self-deprecatingly.

dinner, Cherise and Damien sent the

hope I’ll get my

a hand resting against Damien’s arm, Cherise watched as they

pinched her cheek. “Why do you feel like you’re in a fishbowl

what happened to Lennon, and I don’t know what happened to Dad. The more

clasped his large hand over hers. “Don’t worry. You’ll remember eve

“I really wish I could wake

as he remembered something. He looked down at

that you remembered something earlier, right? Do you still remember what happened when you recalled that memory? Jacob

Cherise was silent.

trigger would

of the incident in the car today, her

Lenior, your face is