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.

lip, she turned to

frown deepened, his gaze unusually serious. “What

Cherise murmured, her

as he looked at her. “Don’t read too

ago, and she 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

her lip, a tinge

a deep connection with Charisa, thinking she genuinely cared. However, Charisa seemed so accustomed to solitude

about her… and your uncle,

over a decade, she assumed that her not remarrying was due

knew very little about Charisa. Beyond knowing that she was her biological mother and the head of the

left her father, Grandpa had been vague. All he had said was that

her to assume that one of the reasons Charisa had gotten

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