Whispers Turn to Whimpers: Could He Ever Change?

Chapter 264

“Sherilyn!” The call echoed behind her as she dashed away, not giving a second thought to anything but the need to escape. The pounding footsteps of Edgar followed, a desperate chase on the brink of a twilight drama.

“Sherilyn!”

In the car, Gilbert was idly scrolling through his phone, bored out of his mind, when the sudden sight of Sherilyn and Edgar, one after the other, caught his

eye.

What on earth?

Before he could wrap his head around the situation, Sherilyn yanked open the passenger door and hurled herself inside

“Drive?” Her voice was charged with an urgency that left no room for questions, a command rather than a request

Gilbert was stunned.

“Sherlyn!” Edgar caught up, pounding on the car window “Sherilyn, don’t do this…

Through the glass, his words were muffled, Gilbert catching only fragments, his gaze flipping between Edgar outside and Sherilyn’s stormy presence

beside him

her ears, Sherilyn’s demand came as a

“Oh. Alright”

experienced a kind of ‘fear, an unusual surrender

With that feeling,

the last glimpse of Edgar running after them

“You’re really going to leave him?

‘Drive faster

Gilbert sighed. Fine.

car sped away, Edgar’s figure shrank into the distance, disappearing from sight. Beside him, Sherilyn’s sudden

Was she… crying?

Edgar stirred a mix

you should’ve clung to him instead of running away.”

face with

We can’t just stop

hands tugged at the door, desperation in

calm down! It’s dangerous!”

the car!”

Gilbert complied, pulling over to the side of the road. Sherilyn didn’t hesitate, pushing the door open and stepping out.

“Sherilyn!”

She had just cried and now was acting recklessly;

as he feared, as Sherilyn stepped onto the road, a car came hurtling