Love Burned, She Rose Unscathed

Chapter 742

Chapter 742

"Corley!" Roseanne interrupted, locking eyes with him. "Think carefully about what you want to say, what you should say, before you speak."

"You know, don't you?" The man trapped her between the wall and his chest, his arms resting on either side of her.

"Know what? And what if I don't? Our relationship shouldn't be..."

"What relationship?" He smirked, "Tell me, what are we to each other?"

"...Cousins."

"You might not know this, but my mom isn't actually my grandparents' biological daughter. Which means-we're not blood-related!"

Roseanne froze for a moment. "Whether we're blood-related or not, there's no possibility for us."

"Why not?"

"I don't like you."

That phrase again!

Always that phrase!

Corley gripped her shoulders tightly, his frustration evident. "Why can't you like me? You even loved someone like Murray, who was a total jerk. Why not me? Anne..."

His eyes glistened with unshed tears. "Don't be so heartless, okay?"

were gone. Corley wanted nothing more than to finish what he'd started last night, to leave Roseanne with no room

But-

away, her eyes calm and unwavering.

listen? Why...won't you give me any chance? Are you scared? Scared that there might be something more

There's no need to hear you out because, from now on, regardless of what you think,

that, she sidestepped him and

eternity before a wry

Siblings?

her to

she called him "brother," and it pierced his heart

...

Neely and Geneva

living room,

elderly couple couldn't get enough of their long-lost daughter, as if trying to make up for all the lost years in

had exhausted themselves searching for her, and their

their aged faces and remembering the tears her

Her heart ached.

should get some rest," Geneva said,

chimed in with a

and I aren't going

our daughter, and we're not letting go this

l.ne

too.

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