Whispers Turn to Whimpers: Could He Ever Change?

Chapter 262

Watching, Derek couldn’t help but glance at Gilbert.

“What are you looking at me for? Did I make things better for them?” Gilbert shot him a glare, pulled out a cigarette, lit it up, and took a deep drag.

See. He had always said she and Edgar were a mismatch. A divorced woman with no solid family backing her up–how could Edgar’s blue–blooded family ever agree to that? Only Sylvia had such whimsical ideas.

Derek looked away, then asked Yates, “So where’s Edgar now? How’s he holding up?”

“He’s got friends; he’s staying with one of them.” Yates shook his head. “But, from what he told me, Sherilyn has cut him off, even blocked him.”

“What?” Derek was startled. “So he ended up with nothing?”

Yet he could understand. “Sherilyn’s not in the wrong here. Clinging to Edgar under these circumstances would just show a lack of maturity…”

“How is that showing a lack of maturity?” Gilbert, who had been silent until now, suddenly spoke up in disagreement.

He put out the half–smoked cigarette in the ashtray, crushing it fiercely, “Was it Sherilyn clinging to Edgar? Or was it Edgar who willingly got involved?”

start. “If he initiated

at his words. Derek and Yates exchanged glances, but neither

The next day.

Gilbert had been sitting in his sleek Bentley for ten minutes, eyes fixed on the entrance.

his gaze shifted, spotting

got out of the car, hurrying over

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him, puzzled about

Gilbert nodded, gesturing towards his car, “Get

her backpack strap, hesitant

heart; if it weren’t for the fact that he was the reason she was a divorcee, he wouldn’t

a

Sherilyn was lost, not

said,