Whispers Turn to Whimpers: Could He Ever Change?

She whipped around, glaring at him with a mix of anger and frustration. "Mr. Gilbert, so it's do as I say, not as I do, huh?"

"What?" Gilbert was in the midst of buckling her into the seatbelt.

"Didn't catch that?"

Sherilyn tilted her head back, locking eyes with him in a confrontational stare. "You can ditch me in the middle of our date to run off to your darling's side! And I can't even wait for a friend to come out of surgery?"

Gilbert's eyes flickered, taken aback. "You're blaming me?"

"No!" Sherilyn shook her head, clearly disagreeing. "I'm talking about fairness! I didn't stand in your way of looking after your sweetheart, so please don't stand in mine of being there for a friend, alright?"

"A friend?"

Gilbert gripped her wrist, a sardonic tone coloring his voice as he chewed over the words. "You and Edgar just met. I've known Caroline for years. You're comparing Edgar to Caroline? He's not even in the same league!"

With a scoff, he released her hand.

"Look at you, yelling at me over an ex-boyfriend, telling me he got stabbed tonight for you, making you fantasize about him again!"

What? Sherilyn was flabbergasted, speechless. How could someone be so unreasonable! He's a lunatic, plain and simple!

Sherilyn turned her head away, closing her eyes in frustration, refusing to look at him any longer.

Feeling

withdrew his gaze coldly and

the tension thick in

and stepped out without a word, heading straight for the entrance. "Where are you going?" Gilbert's voice sounded cold

bother to

hospital? To

tone casual yet piercing. "Go

he really being that

the next second, he added, "I've already notified his parents. By now, they should have arrived at the

stiffened, freezing

cold, and without another

only to see his

he must have gone

always like

argued, he'd

he think she'd come running

was really at

bother with him, grabbed some clothes, took a shower, turned off the lights, and went to

day, Gilbert woke up

and his back aching from

hadn't reached out to him