Whispers Turn to Whimpers: Could He Ever Change?

Chapter 674

Gilbert was noncommittal, his tone casual as he flipped the question back at her, "How did you get here? Finished up at Grandma's?" "No."

Caroline shook her head, wrapping her arms around herself as she deliberated for a moment, "I'm staying with your older brother at the moment, and it's a bit awkward, so I thought I'd come over."

Their relationship had always been more akin to sweethearts since childhood, lovers for over a decade before parting ways. Now, were they to be friends, or siblings? Gilbert hesitated before asking, "You doing alright?"

"Huh?"

Caroline paused, a laugh escaping her, "I'm fine, really. What's there to be not fine about? Just a breakup, that's all. The world's full of heartbreak; it won't kill me." Then, she turned the conversation to Gilbert.

"Aren't you the same?"

After finishing, she seemed doubtful, "I heard it from Sherilyn. He said you two broke up, and it was you who initiated it, right?"

This was something Gilbert couldn't deny.

He had told Sherilyn it was over because he misunderstood, believing she had terminated their child...

But yes, it was he who had brought it up, even if he regretted it now.

"Yeah." Gilbert nodded.

...

In the restroom, Sherilyn emerged from a stall and washed her hands at the sink.

She was still in the hospital.

the

heading back to the examination room where

quieter at night,

she could clearly hear a man and a woman talking and abruptly

...

"That explains it..."

driver, telling him she didn't have a boyfriend." Then she

though her face

you think

was taken aback, not

faded slightly, a

end up here, I should have chosen you back then. We know each other

DUMS

.n

mustering her courage, "Gilbert, if I choose you now, is it too

corner,

velte

as she

was not the moment

should just

please lift your foot? You're

shift,

foot with an apologetic chuckle, "Oh, I'm

"It's okay."

"Sherilyn?"