He Chose the So-Called Sister Chapter 421: A Sudden Proposal

"You–you–you!" Selena pointed at Sherry, trembling with rage. "Tonight I'm telling Lucas everything! You hear me? Answer me! I'm reporting you! I'm gonna jump!"

But no one paid her any mind.

Sherry had already left with her coffee, gone without a trace.

Sherry suddenly found herself unable to sleep. Was it because she was in a new place?

Or was she homesick?

The thought crossed her mind, and she dismissed it at once.

She didn't have a home.

She didn't even know what "home" to miss. She had a few friends, but they were just friends—she could never treat their homes as her own.

Even though she'd earned plenty of money, if she bought a big house, she'd only be living there alone.

"What are you thinking about?"

"That I don't have a home," Sherry said without thinking.

She froze as soon as the words left her mouth. Someone had entered the room, and he was wrapping his arms around her from behind. The familiar scent made her tense body relax.

But the gesture was incredibly intimate.

She could feel his breath against her neck, though there was a faint hint of iron—blood. She wondered if she was imagining it.

Afraid he'd misunderstand her words, she quickly added, "I mean a real home. People talk about being homesick, but I don't think I have any reason to miss where I came from."

No family, no good memories. Thinking about it made her feel pitiful.

But Gilbert had never pitied her. He'd always thought Julia was the one who deserved sympathy. Did Julia really look that pitiful? Her eyes shone with nothing but confidence.

She didn't even seem traumatized. Sherry refused to believe someone could go through what she had and show no reaction at all.

Julia even talked about marrying an older man for Gilbert's sake without a single trace of pain in her eyes.

Whenever Sherry saw something that stung, she couldn't help but replay her own past—and in doing so, she slowly healed from it.

Only when those old wounds were fully mended could she start over.

Was Julia really that strong and unbreakable?

"So... did you find out anything about Julia?"

"Once you're divorced, let's get married."

They spoke at exactly the same time.

Sherry's mind went completely blank, like a machine that had seized up. She stammered for ages before finally saying, "Are you even old enough?"

As soon as she said it, she wanted to bite her tongue off.

Lucas fell uncharacteristically silent. "Then we'll have the wedding first."

He spoke through gritted teeth, making the biggest compromise he could.

Sherry stared.

Was this his way of proposing? She had no idea—she'd never been proposed to before.

Before, they'd just gotten their marriage license directly. They'd been together for over two years, and Gilbert had always said there was no point in fancy, showy events.

He'd called all that stuff just a way to milk money from people.

She never even had a proper wedding.

He'd even given her a reason she'd believed at the time.

"If we have a big wedding, your family will see how well I treat you.

"Then they'll use my name to show off everywhere. You know they don't care about you, and I'm not going to help them."

Back then, Sherry had thought Gilbert was protecting her—sorry that her own parents treated her so badly.

That if the Campbells gained more power but still treated her poorly, she'd only suffer more.

He'd left her with no way to argue.

"If we have a wedding," Sherry said quietly, "the Campbells will know how good you are to me. Then they'll use that to make you help them, like it's their right. And even after you do, they'll complain you didn't do enough."

Right now, everyone only thought she was Lucas' assistant, and yet, just because she held a single invitation, the Campbells had the nerve to confront her so brazenly. They would go even further.

"I'm not some selfish bastard like Gilbert," Lucas said. "Everything he told you was just so Julia wouldn't suspect anything.

"He wasn't in direct contact with her back then, but he was still proving his loyalty to her in his own way. He knew if she really looked into it, she'd find out the truth.

"He wanted Julia to think that even after he got married, he cared so little about his wife that he wouldn't even give her a real wedding. That was his way of letting her know he never got over her."

It was obvious, even to another man.

But Sherry hadn't seen it for years.