Chapter 379

Gilbert looked down, nodding, “Sure, what do you want to talk about?”

“Aren’t you going to ask how I got hurt?”

That question…

Gilbert paused for a moment, closing his first aid kit. “Although I’m not sure what happened, I believe my brother didn’t mean it.”

“Hmm?” Caroline hesitated, then forced a smile. “Yeah, he didn’t mean it. But sometimes, it’s the unintentional hurts that cut the deepest.”

Gilbert found himself at a loss for words.

Relationships are between two people. Outsiders can only make things worse by interfering, not to mention they can’t really help.

“Gilbert.”

Caroline suddenly asked, “If, and I’m only saying if… if Francis truly betrayed me, stand by me?”

“Why would you think that?” Gilbert’s heart sank; he didn’t want to answer.

“I’m asking, what if!”

would you

an answer, her eyes reddening. “Gilbert, you promised me, you’d always

while before finally speaking. “If it ever comes to that, I

he

“You’ll sleep in the guest room downstairs tonight. I’ll go grab

to the master bedroom, which was pitch dark. Sherilyn was already asleep.

on the main light but opted for the

came out with a set of clothes, sitting down by the bed.

startle Sherilyn, he kept his

“Sherilyn.”

eyelashes flutter. He

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to himself, “Caroline is staying in the guest room downstairs tonight. I’ve

look at the clothes

you had to wake me. Why even ask me

held her hand, sensing she

your clothes. Of course,

that. Everything here is yours. You decide. You didn’t even ask me

“That’s because…”

refused to go home,

at him, being

bothering to

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