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 turned to

frown deepened, his gaze unusually serious. “What are you trying to

murmured, her

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

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 just not used to being touched

bit her lip, a tinge of bitterness settling within

Charisa seemed so accustomed to solitude that it didn’t allow

sniffled. “So, about her… and your uncle, were

Charisa’s solitary life for over a decade, she assumed that her

knowing that she was her biological mother

previously asked why her mother left her father, Grandpa had been vague. All he had said was that Charisa felt unprotected by

not unreasonable for her to assume that

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