Chapter 105: Registering a marriage.

His words almost made her spit out her food. “Road clearers?” she asked. “They pat the crowd like the red sea for you,” he said. “why would I want that?” Elena chuckled. “For effect.” He shrugged. “I will look like a clown,” “You will look like a star. So, did they bully you?” he asked. Elena shrugged, her expression unreadable. “Not really. I was just… ignored.” “Ignored?” “They behaved as though I did not exist,” Marcus’s heart clenched at her words, a pang of sympathy sweeping through him. “Why?” he asked. “I was a busy body. They would play pranks on people regularly. One time they took a prank too far and almost killed someone. No one was supposed to tell a teacher but I told a teacher to call the police. The firefighters came and got the girl out of the building before she ran out of oxygen. She survived, but she was in a coma for a few months. Her family withdrew her from school and the students involved were reprimanded. Since then, they all agreed to pretend I don’