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…”

see Gilbert’s hostility toward him, seeing him as

suspicions. “Is it that Gilbert is the only one who wants this, and you

guess so accurately. She didn’t speak, but her expression

darkened, and he slammed his hand on the steering wheel, looking outraged. “That’s just wrong! Gilbert’s taking it too

the heart should

“But why run? Can’t

memories flooding. back. “It’s not the first time something

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“Do you mean you and Gilbert in

manipulated her in her first marriage. At twenty, she was clueless, but could she still be in the dark after

hate them? How could she not? For the marriage she got. manipulated into, the injustices she endured, etc. Yet, the Johnson family also showed her great kindness!

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

ensuring she had food and books to read, and continued

a fifteen–year–old orphan girl have survived if it

her benefactors hurt her, she

present, and Sherilyn laughed coldly, her eyes shimmering. “Fran woke up. I,