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.

by Lennon. “Mr. Belcourt, I don’t know what

self-deprecatingly. “I

dinner, Cherise and Damien sent the

my memories

arm, Cherise watched as they drove away. “I

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

I don’t know what happened to Dad. The more I mec are related to me in the

his large hand over hers. “Don’t worry.

wish I could wake up with

as he remembered something.

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

Cherise was silent.

Her trigger would be him teasing

car today,

Lenior, your face is very red…”