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…”

hostility toward him, seeing him

reaction, Edgar had his suspicions. “Is it that Gilbert is the only

stunned, not expecting Edgar to guess so accurately. She

and he slammed his hand on the steering wheel, looking

of the heart should

run? Can’t you

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

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mean you and

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

into, the injustices she endured, etc.

After her grandmother passed away, Sherilyn went to her father, begging him to take her in. She was only fifteen, still a child. She needed someone to take care of her. But her father refused her!

took her by 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 weren’t for the Johnson family?

her benefactors hurt her,

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