Whispers Turn to Whimpers: Could He Ever Change?

Chapter 824

Gilbert hurried back to the apartment, his mind consumed with concern for Sherilyn. When he entered, she was still standing there as if frozen, her entire body tense and trembling more severely with each passing moment. "Sherilyn?" Gilbert's heart ached as he approached her, gently guiding her to sit on the couch. Her hands were icy to the touch.

"Are you alright?" he asked, his voice filled with deepening worry.

Sherilyn met his gaze with a blank stare, her eyes unfocused.

"I'm a jinx..." she murmured, a bitter smile playing on her lips.

"That's just nonsense," Gilbert said softly, enclosing her hands with his own.

"Is it?" Sherilyn seemed lost in her thoughts, tears starting to form at the corners of her eyes. She shook her head slightly and spoke softly, more to herself than to him. "After my parents divorced, Mom took me back to her hometown, Ivy Hollow. I refused to believe Dad had abandoned us... I kept running away, trying to find him."

Gilbert knelt in front of her, gazing up into her eyes.

gave a small, sorrowful

for me... There was one time Grandma found me, but Mom... she never came back that night..." Suddenly,

"The next day, Mom still didn't come back... Days passed, and then Grandma got the news...

she was searching for me along the mountain road. It was too dark; she fell...

of her mother, bloodied and broken, appeared before Sherilyn's eyes. "Sherilyn!" Gilbert straightened up,

feline

I have to go

but the depth of her sorrow seemed to echo from

"I'm so sorry."

for ten years, yet he had never realized the depth of her

also suffered because of me. She had to struggle at her age just for

kids are healthy, but I couldn't even

Gilbert was overwhelmed by a surge of