My Blind Husband

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.

response to Sebastian was repulsive, while her innate connection

that the version of

reconcile how the former Cherise could have been entangled with Damien amidst an arranged union resembling a transaction, compounded by her parents’

ceaseless internal conflict, she yearned

radiated from Damien, a familiar and foreign warmth enveloping her in its embrace. “Damien,” she

am not the same Cherise you once knew,” she confessed, her

she continued, her words

those emotions, I cannot remain

sigh. “Let us part ways, Damien,” she murmured, her words

shall dissolve our

his grip on her arm. “I

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

marriage may have begun as a transaction and later entangled with my mother’s life.”

that chapter has long been closed.”

eyes narrowed, his voice carrying a steely determination. “I swore an oath never to let you slip away from me in this lifetime,” he asserted, his words echoing with an unyielding

your vow hold for me?” Cherise challenged, her voice tinged

she declared, her words brimming

relinquish all for love! I possess reason and intellect,” she

Damien’s brow as he regarded her with an intensity

moment of tense silence, a faint smirk played on his lips. “Are you suggesting that the former Cherise was a woman governed solely by her emotions, devoid of reason and intellect?” he inquired, his voice laced with a hint

nodding in affirmation.

flickered in Damien’s eyes, his expression inscrutable as