Marrying the Man in the Dark

Chapter 1221 Lennon Onder

Cherise's lips pressed together when she heard Maeve's name.

She admitted that she had a very poor impression of Maeve at first. The woman had robbed Mandy of nearly twenty years of her life and left Mandy's face permanently marked. She had even attacked Cherise's biological mother at Cherise and Damien's wedding.

However, time continued to run, and five years had gone by. Faced with a completely remorseful Maeve, Cherise found it hard to hold onto her hatred. Moreover, Maeve had been genuinely good to Ren and Sera, making Cherise see Maeve as a true family member.

Now, though, things had taken a bad turn.

Cherise sighed. "Maeve is... Even once she wakes up, the situation won't be good. You need to be prepared mentally."

Maeve's illness concerned her heart. Such a condition couldn't handle anger, stress, or intense emotions. Not even the best doctors could save her if her emotions got out of control.

Sadly, when she woke up, she would still have to deal with the betrayal of her husband of many years.

Charles was so significant to Maeve that she had once asserted that Damien aside, Charles was her everything. To her mind, without him and his support, she would have died long ago, with no desire to keep living.

Now, her support system had collapsed. Charles had betrayed her. It was akin to Maeve losing a big chunk of her will to live.

Maeve's prospects were... dire.

Damien admitted, "I know."

"But right now, I can't do anything to Charles. We must wait for Maeve to fully recover before making any decisions."

Cherise nodded pensively. "I see."

Since there was nothing else to discuss about Maeve, Cherise turned to Damien's sea expedition.

"Did you see any starfish?"

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"Get chased by great white sharks?"

Damien looked at her with a smile. "We were on official business, not a vacation."

"Oh," Cherise pouted, the corners of her lips curling down. "How did your business go?"

Damien quipped. "We witnessed a miracle."

Cherise, puzzled, continued eating her fish. "What kind of miracle?"

"A miracle of life."

While it was common knowledge that Damien sailed for business purposes, only Colin and Otto knew the small details that concerned the life of a person.

He had traveled to a remote, primitive island far from Adania, where he had used

a lot of fish and meat to buy back a slave.

The negotiations with the

indigenous people were long and complicated, but fortunately, they succeeded. They managed to buy the slave from the islanders. He was a man with no name and no past, so Damien gave him the surname Onder and named him after an old friend, Lennon.

Lennon Onder.

During Maeve's stay in the hospital, Charles pushed aside his work and stayed at the hospital every day, watching over her. Although she refused to let him in, and he could only watch her from the other side of the window, he steadfastly kept a close watch over her from outside her room each day. No one could make him budge from the spot he'd chosen to stand guard at.

When faced with such a person, neither Damien nor Colin could blame him or ask him to leave.

Thus, it went on until the seventh day, when Maeve finally agreed to see him. Within the hospital room her complexion had turned paler as she lost even more weight, her body even weaker from the last time she was hospitalized.