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

that Gilbert is

expecting Edgar to guess so accurately. She didn’t speak,

his hand on the

heart should

run? Can’t

the painful memories flooding.

Chapter 203

“Do you mean you and Gilbert in

her head. The Johnson family had manipulated her in her first marriage. At twenty, she was clueless, but could she still be in the

she got. manipulated into, the injustices she endured, etc. Yet, the Johnson family

grandmother passed away, Sherilyn went to her father, begging him to take her in. She was only fifteen,

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

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

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

back to the present, and Sherilyn laughed coldly, her eyes shimmering. “Fran woke up.