Whispers Turn to Whimpers: Could He Ever Change?

Chapter 412

“What?” Sherilyn was starting to lose her patience, “What’s up, Jenna? You can’t share with me?”

“It’s not that.” Jenna shook her head. Despite her young age, she vaguely felt that her question might upset her mother, which is why she had been hesitant to ask since she got back.

Now, under her mother’s persistent gaze, she couldn’t hold it in any longer.

“Mom,-every kid has a mom and a dad, right? It’s because of a mom and a dad that there’s a Jenna, right?”

Sherilyn felt a jolt, her mind going blank for a moment.

She had never expected Jenna to be troubled by such a question!

As for Jenna’s dad, from the day she was born, Sherilyn knew it would become an issue someday.

Her father wasn’t someone born out of love between her parents…

Her father, in fact, despised her mother!

Over the years, Sherilyn had always skirted around the topic, never mentioning anything

about a father to Jenna…

But what was inevitable has finally arrived.

“Mom.” Jenna’s eyes, brimming with tears, tugged at her mom’s blouse, “Does Jenna have a dad too?”

heart clenched, but she nodded.

“Yes, of course.”

“Mom, where is my dad? Why hasn’t he ever come to visit

he like

felt heartbroken, “No, that’s not it…”

reddened as she replied, “How could that be? Daddy loves Jenna very

still in

was only for a brief period.

have been too small! Then why doesn’t Dad

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up, trying to comfort her daughter. “Dad is very busy.

Dad is not

her daughter’s hopeful eyes, Sherilyn reluctantly nodded, “…Yes.”

doesn’t Dad call Jenna then?” Mom used to call her all the time when she was alone in

that moment from the pain!

she said, “That’s because Dad’s job is very special, and he can’t just make calls anytime.”

Lies came easily.

than have Jenna know

her father was!

could bear it

who her father was, and she could live in the beautiful

him.