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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...

looked back

he convince her to leave

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

her priority was getting

She had told herself, even in death, she would never

dead. For her child, she had to

deep breath and called

she wondered if he'd

familiar

opened, hér heart racing, making

on the other

man seemed excited, yet in

the other clenched on her knee, she

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weak, "Yeah, it's me."

"Ал."

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

"Not that you can't call if you don't need anything. I mean, you can call me anytime, I'm here!" Listening to his jumbled words, Sherilyn felt a lump in her throat. Her grip tightened, her hand trembling

around the bush, she got straight to the

okay? I'll pay you back.

rejecting her outright, "Sure,

Sherilyn threw out

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