Whispers Turn to Whimpers: Could He Ever Change?

Chapter 215

Inside the town hall, Gilbert wasn’t alone. He had brought Edwin with him.

“Here’s the deal.” Edwin glanced at Gilbert, leaning back in his chair as if he had no stake in the matter, and pulled a stack of documents from his briefcase.

“Sherilyn, these… are from Mr. Johnson for you. You’ve been putting off dealing with this, so let’s take the opportunity now. Just sign where you need to, and I’ll handle the rest.”

Alimony? Sherilyn shook her head immediately. “I can’t take it.”

It wasn’t that she was being overly sentimental or putting on airs. The Johnson family took her in when she was without a place to call home. She had to admit the Johnson family took great care of her over the years. The Johnson family had no obligation to do so. This marriage was her way of repaying their kindness. ‘Paying back‘ a kindness shouldn’t involve receiving

payment.

“Ugh!” Gilbert was getting impatient. “Just take it!”

Afraid she would refuse again, Gilbert said sternly, “This is from me to you! It’s from Gilbert to his ex–wife, nothing to do with the Johnson family or Grandma!” Sherilyn was shocked. With him putting it that way, she was at a loss for

words to refuse.

“Come on, let her sign.” Frustrated, Gilbert pulled á cigarette and lighter from his pocket, though smoking wasn’t allowed in the hall.

“I’m going for a smoke.” He stood up and headed to the smoking room.

“Come on, sign these. Without your signature,

that way.

the pen, and signed her name on each document.

her a stamp pad. “You’ll need to press your thumbprint,

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too.”

all the papers and leaving her thumbprint, Sherilyn. cleaned

just as Gilbert

checked their IDs one last time. “Everything’s in

now.”

separated for four years and agreeing to a no–fault divorce without

clerk placed two divorce decrees before them.

decree, Sherilyn had fingertips

that happy? Gilbert watched her, a complex

inside him.

many years. Yet, it seemed Sherilyn

bit her lip, showing a

Gilbert

anymore, her expression brightening, “Is