Whispers Turn to Whimpers: Could He Ever Change?

Chapter 128

What was going on?

Everything was shrouded in total darkness, making it impossible to see anything.

Gilbert jerked his head up, looking in the direction of Sherilyn’s apartment. It was dark there too. The thought of her rundown place….

A girl like her, she must be scared, right?

Without further thought, Gilbert whipped out his phone, turned on the flashlight, and started moving.

This time, he hadn’t brought anything with him. Thanks to his long legs, he took the stairs. several at a time and quickly reached the fifth floor.

Inside the apartment, Sherilyn was using her phone as a light, rummaging through drawers for a candle.

Hearing a knock, she was surprised. Rushing to the door, she asked, “Who’s there?”

“Who else could it be?”

In the darkness, Gilbert’s deep gaze met hers. “What, you have a lot of visitors? Besides that door–to–door salesman last time, who else comes here?”

Sherilyn blinked, confused, and shook her head. “No one else.”

“Hmph.” With a grunt, Gilbert stepped inside and made himself comfortable on the couch. “What’s going on?”

Sherilyn explained, “The power’s out.”

“What?” Gilbert couldn’t believe it. “A power outage?”

In this day and age? Sunhaven was such a developed place. How could there possibly be a power outage?

“That’s the thing,” Sherilyn said, “Serenity Street is in the old district. Many of the lines are ancient, so repairs are a common occurrence.”

This was something Mr. Johnson, who grew up in an affluent area, could hardly understand.

“Why…” Gilbert frowned, clearly displeased. “Why are you so stubborn about living here?”

She didn’t want to answer his question. Instead, she asked him, “Did you come up here for something?”

At that, Gilbert hesitated.

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supposed to answer? Admit he was worried about her? Ugh… He

“Hmph.”

“Just came to see what’s going on. Otherwise, if something happened to you,

that

“I’m fine, you can

that, she’s sending him away? His kindness meant nothing to her?

chest, he protested, “Leave? It’s

you have your

“My phone’s dead!”

right, wait here for a sec.”

back to continue her search in the

up and joined Sherilyn, looking down

“Candles.”

“You

outages are common here. The landlord and the agent both told me

it was this kind of place and still

looking at the girl’s profile in the dim

she really the same Sherilyn he knew, once so high

“Here.”

back of the drawer, she found

smiled slightly,

one for you, light it up and

“Heh.”

glanced at her sideways. “Thanks… but no thanks!”

was perplexed. “Why not? You

me

away Sherilyn’s hand holding the candle.

take it then. What’s with

froze, her body tensing

“What?”

“Ah!”

she was startled, Sherilyn suddenly dropped the candle and leaped up!

“Sherilyn! Sherilyn?”

instinctively, he reached out

like an

of her own reaction, she wrapped her arms around Gilbert’s neck,

ah…”

other hand, was

a soft bundle, held in

Adam’s apple bobbed, and without thinking too much, he held her tighter, his