Side Chick Era... Over

Loving Mom 26

Chapter 26

When he saw her bleeding and hurt, the first thing Carter said wasn’t concern.

It was

“Do you know what you did wrong?”

Even a stranger on the street, seeing her like this, would have at least asked if she was alright. But her husband stood there, waiting for her to surrender, to admit fault.

Sharon laughed.

Carter frowned. “What are you laughing at?”

She wiped the blood from her forehead, but the rotting lettuce leaves stuck to her clothes and the sticky smear of raw egg on her shoulder left her looking completely wrecked.

“I’m laughing at myself for putting so much effort all these years into a monster.”

She gave up trying to clean herself and looked directly at him through the car window. “So this is how you make me regret it? You sic the internet on me, send people to corner me in the street, just to avenge your precious Kelly?”

He was silent for a few seconds. “You think I did all this?“.

“Didn’t you?” Sharon smiled faintly. “I moved into a new place. Even with a doxxing, there’s no way they would’ve found me that quickly or that precisely. Who else would’ve known? You’re the one who had Nate pass me that message—‘you’ll regret it,‘ remember?”

Her eyes locked onto his. “If you care so much about protecting Kelly from pain, then why not just divorce me? You two could be together openly, without guilt, without lies.”

anger crossed

and over again–there’s nothing between me and

said coldly,

eyes turned sharp, frigid. “So you’re determined

“Yes,” Sharon answered.

let out a laugh, furious. “Fine. I hope

his car pulled away, tires spitting dust

day and night

around Sharon still hadn’t

didn’t pull the stories down. His silence was its own kind

quiet, Kelly posted a statement on her

fact that I’m in the hospital has nothing to do with Sharon. The incident where I fell into

my boyfriend—those are all in the past. I

The internet exploded.

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Chapter 26

and she wasn’t holding Sharon accountable, that could

was saying, yes, Sharon had been the mistress, but it was over now, so

So did

she and Carter got together, he and Kelly were

Then came another wave.

leaked rumors that she had something

into the public eye. Now, people were accusing him of getting involved with