Whispers Turn to Whimpers: Could He Ever Change?

"Wow, that was fast." The cleaner was amazed. "Ms. Gomez had her surgery last night, and here you are today..."

She rambled on, "Before the crack of dawn, Ms. White called me up, said Ms. Gomez had surgery and asked me to prepare a chicken soup..."

She even lifted the bag in her hands, waving it in front of Gilbert.

But Gilbert's face had already darkened, his brows furrowed deeply, full of confusion and concern, cutting her off, "Surgery? What surgery? Sherilyn? What happened to her?"

"Huh?"

The cleaner paused, blinking in confusion, "Mr. Johnson, you didn't know? Then why did you..."

"I'm asking you!" Gilbert suddenly roared, his face clouded with anger.

"Ah, the surgery..."

The cleaner jumped, startled, quickly shaking her head, "What surgery? I don't know, Ms. White didn't tell me much, I didn't ask for details... Ms. White just said she needed to be in the hospital with Ms. Gomez for a couple of days, asked me to bring over some clothes and stuff..."

Nothing but useless information!

"Which hospital?"

Gilbert struggled to keep his rage in check, his emotions on the brink. "You must know that much, right?"

"I do, I do!"

...

Hospital.

up from anesthesia, she felt

asking carefully, "Does the wound hurt? If not, try

important to move

checked in with herself and shook her head,

her to stand, "I can't see, so you hold onto the bed rail with one hand

arm, moving around the bed,

phone rang, it was

you, Jenna didn't listen and secretly threw away the lettuce and carrots from her sandwich..." "Sophia, Jenna was wrong!

promise your mom!" Sophia handed the

"Mommy."

her daughter's sweet little voice, Sherilyn's heart

was wrong, I'll eat my veggies! Are you

"No, I'm not mad..."

'strict mom', but today, she just couldn't bring herself to be

the best!

better keep your

Mommy, I will go eat

"Go ahead, Jenna."

streamed down Sherilyn's face. Just yesterday, she was dreaming

all

mother, she couldn't provide her daughter with a healthy body and the hope of having another child to help Jenna seemed more and more like an impossible

she bear to blame her daughter

had never really lived