Dark Secrets of the Blind Husband

Chapter 491 They Were Not In Love

Cherise sat at the table, her lips pressed tightly together while her hands clenched under the table.

In the brief ten minutes they had been seated, Charisa had mentioned death for the third time. Cherise’s intuition strongly suggested that Charisa didn’t say these words lightly.

Cherise’s lips quivered, and she instinctively reached for Charisa’s hand, but the woman evaded her touch with calm composure. “I’m not comfortable with physical contact.”

She glanced indifferently at Cherise, then rose from her seat and walked out. “I’ll go check on what they’re cooking.

With those words, she left Cherise in the wake of her cold and distant departure.

Cherise’s hand froze mid-air, leaving her with a profound sense of loneliness.

her lip, she

gaze unusually serious. “What are you

murmured, her fist

is fine. Zachary’s brows furrowed slightly as he looked at her. “Don’t read too much into it. Aunt Charisa has been a bit more sentimental than usual

has been living alone all these years. No children, no friends. She only lets Kareen and me get a bit closer. So, try to understand her. It’s not that she rejects your touch. She’s

lip, a tinge

cared. However, Charisa seemed so accustomed to solitude that it didn’t allow any space

sniffled. “So, about her… and

decade, she assumed that her not

that she was her biological mother and the head of the Miles Family, she had no knowledge about anything

mother left her father, Grandpa had been vague. All he had said was that Charisa felt unprotected by her father, so she

was not unreasonable for her to assume that one of the reasons Charisa had gotten

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