Chapter 165

Ned stormed out and slammed the door behind him.

Sherryn furrowed her brows. She wrapped her cloak tighter around her in irritation before storming upstairs to her room.

Ned's mind was haunted by Sherryn's words from their morning phone call with Gregory. He could hear Angeline's voice in the background. Specific images in his mind became vivid as he drove with one hand on the steering wheel.

When they were just starting high school and went through military training with another school, a boy from the other school confessed his feelings to Angeline. Ned had hit the boy without a second thought.

Angeline then took him to the infirmary to tend to the wound at the corner of his mouth.

In his memory, Angeline had her hair in two braids, and the sunlight streamed through the window, highlighting her exceptionally fair and delicate features. She had gently dabbed at his wound with a cotton swab and blew on it lightly. The sight of Angeline's plump, rosy lips had impulsively driven Ned