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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

her

a minor episode for Sherilyn, like a small pebble tossed into a lake, barely causing a

priority was getting

told herself, even in death, she

For her child, she

a deep breath and called

she wondered if

a while, a familiar voice

hér heart racing, making her words stumble, "It's

the

seemed excited, yet in disbelief. "Sherilyn? Is that

gripping the phone, and the other clenched on her knee, she managed

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weak, "Yeah, it's me."

"Ал."

man sounded thrilled. "You reached out? Sherilyn, you...

call if you don't need anything. I mean, you can call me anytime, I'm here!" Listening to his jumbled words,

around the bush, she got straight

to borrow some money. Is that okay? I'll pay you back.

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

grand." Sherilyn threw out

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