Side Chick Era... Over

Chapter 23

Loving Mom 23

Tears streamed silently down Kelly’s cheeks, delicate and glistening like petals soaked in the rain. She looked fragile, heartbreakingly so.

Carter’s face was like ice. His cold, blade–sharp gaze landed on Sharon with cutting precision.

Kelly grabbed his arm in a panic. “Carter, it wasn’t Sharon’s fault. please don’t blame her. I just lost my balance…”

Theo rushed over, his voice full of worry. “Kelly, are you okay?”

Kelly forced a weak smile. “I’m fine…”

But before the words fully left her lips, she suddenly collapsed.

Without sparing Sharon another glance, Carter scooped Kelly into his arms and strode toward the car. Theo trailed after him, never once looking back.

Sharon stood frozen, watching the two of them walk away. Their retreating figures blurred slightly before her eyes. Her heart felt like it was trapped somewhere underneath an iced lake–cold, submerged, unreachable.

She closed her eyes and inhaled deeply, again and again, until her lungs steadied enough to move. Then, legs trembling, she turned and left.

Sharon had thought that since Xavier had paid her so much, his son Matty must be difficult to manage.

day together,

given, without fuss. Quiet, obedient, never once making trouble.

and quietly closed the bedroom door behind her,

other end, Wendy’s voice came through,

what are you doing right

just got Matty to

“You’re trending!”

“What

dug up your identity… ugh, it’s too much to explain. Just look at the trending

still a little skeptical, opened her phone and scrolled to the hot search

for five years, they’d barely appeared together in public. Aside from a few of Carter’s acquaintances, hardly anyone

she be

into the top headline–highlighted in bold,

It was her face.

the

were several photos watermarked with “exclusive,” accompanied

first love of his life–Kelly

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