Whispers Turn to Whimpers: Could He Ever Change?

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Chapter 102

Sherilyn frowned. Or what? Got someone else hiding in here?"

Cheapskate." Gilbert chuckled, "I'm breaking my back here for you, and you're gonna get mad over a sip of water?"

Just as Sherilyn opened her mouth to retort, Gilbert's phone rang.

He glanced at the screen, and his expression turned serlous. "Yeah, it's me, go ahead-"

Seemed like business.

"Alright, I'm on my way."

He looked at Sherilyn. "Something's come up, I gotta go."

"Sure." Sherilyn nodded, walking him to the door, "Take care, drive safe."

"Yeah, will do."

Gilbert nodded slightly and turned to leave.

For a moment, he had this odd feeling-it was as though a wife was seeing her husband off to work...

sidewalk, he looked back up, his expression turning

he convince her to

a minor episode for Sherilyn, like a

her priority was

deliberation, Sherilyn thought of someone. She had told herself, even in death, she

dead. For her child, she had to swallow

a deep breath and

she wondered

while, a familiar voice answered, "Hello? Who's

hér heart racing, making her words

the

excited, yet in disbelief. "Sherilyn?

gripping the phone, and the other clenched on

1/2

weak, "Yeah, it's me."

"Ал."

"You reached out? Sherilyn, you...

"Not that you can't call if you don't need anything. I mean, you can call me

the bush, she got straight to the

okay? I'll

The man paused, not rejecting her outright, "Sure, how

threw out