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.

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

chuckled self-deprecatingly. “I

dinner, Cherise and Damien sent

my

resting against Damien’s arm, Cherise watched as they drove away. “I feel like I’m living

“Why do you feel like you’re in

what happened to

large hand over hers. “Don’t

really wish I could wake

something. He looked down at

that you remembered something earlier, right? Do you still remember what happened when you recalled that memory? Jacob said that for your type of amnesia, there will be triggers to help

Cherise was silent.

correct? Her trigger would

in the car today, her face

Lenior, your face is very red…”