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?"

nothing more than to finish what he'd started last night, to leave

But-

turned her head away, her eyes calm and

Why...won't you give me any chance? Are you scared? Scared

gently, ever so composed. "It's not about fear. There's no need to hear you out because, from now

sidestepped him and left

felt like an eternity before a wry smile crept onto his

Siblings?

her to

she called him "brother," and it

...

Geneva stayed at

them company in the living room,

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 health had suffered

and remembering the tears her mother had

Her heart ached.

Geneva said, holding her daughter's hand, her face lined with years of

chimed in with a

I aren't going

our daughter, and we're

l.ne

too.

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