Whispers Turn to Whimpers: Could He Ever Change?

Chapter 203

“What’s up?” Sherilyn looked puzzled. “Something wrong?”

Edgar glanced at her, hesitating before speaking up. “I might be being a bit forward, but why do you seem so afraid of Gilbert?”

His voice sounded all gruff, like it was hard for him to ask, “Aren’t you two… getting along now?”

“Getting along?” Sherilyn looked genuinely surprised. “Why would you think that?”

Edgar paused before admitting, “That’s what Gilbert told me.”

Before Sherilyn could respond, Edgar awkwardly chuckled. “Did you two fight? You know, it’s normal for couples to…”

“It’s not that!” Sherilyn interrupted him sharply.

She pressed her lips tightly, her eyes welling up. “It’s not a fight. Gilbert and I, there’s no making up!”

Edgar was shocked, wondering what was going on. “You haven’t made up? But then…”

would Gilbert say that? Edgar could see Gilbert’s hostility toward him, seeing him as a

Sherilyn’s reaction, Edgar had his suspicions. “Is it that Gilbert is

Edgar to guess so accurately. She didn’t speak, but her expression said it all.

his hand on the steering

the heart should

asked again, “But why run? Can’t you talk

the painful memories flooding.

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Edgar was shocked. “Do you mean you and Gilbert in the

closed her eyes, nodding her head. The Johnson family had manipulated her in her first marriage. At twenty, she was

she got. manipulated into, the

her father, begging him to take her in. She was only fifteen, still a child.

her by the hand into the Johnson family, ensuring she had food and books to read, and

fifteen–year–old orphan girl have survived if

forget the immense kindness. Thus, when her benefactors hurt her, she could only swallow

thoughts snapped back to the present, and Sherilyn laughed coldly, her eyes shimmering. “Fran woke up. I, I…”