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

unusually serious. “What

Cherise murmured, her fist

her. “Don’t read too much into it. Aunt Charisa has been a bit more sentimental than usual

and me get a bit closer. So, try to understand her. It’s not that she rejects your touch. She’s just not used to being touched by anyone,” Zachary explained, attempting to soothe Cherise’s

her lip, a tinge of

felt a deep connection with Charisa, thinking she genuinely cared. However, Charisa seemed so

her… and

solitary life for over a decade, she assumed that her

about Charisa. Beyond knowing that she was her biological mother and the head of the Miles Family,

vague. All he

was not unreasonable for her to assume that one of

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