Loving Mom 29

Sharon tried to push past the reporters, but their encirclement felt like a wall of steel.

“Sharon, please answer my question!”

“Sharon-”

“Sharon-”

The voices buzzed around her like a swarm of wasps, piercing her ears.

And then, someone shoved her–hard.

Caught off guard, Sharon hit the ground with a painful thud.

She struggled to rise, palms stinging, knees burning, when a sudden cry pierced through the noise.

“She hit someone! Mrs. Biggs just hit someone!”

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It was impossible to tell who shouted it, but the reaction was instant. Every flashbulb turned on her, bathing her in a storm of strobing lights.

The noise, the strangers‘ faces crowding in with hungry eyes, felt like masked demons closing in. She couldn’t breathe. Her lungs burned with the weight of it all.

and cold, cutting through the clamor like a blade

aside. All of

tall man stood at the edge of the group,

Sharon’s pupils contracted.

Xavier.

enough time. He crossed over to her, noticed her twisted ankle, and

you to the hospital,” he said, lifting her gently from

the reporters surged again, like bees drawn to

what’s your relationship with Sharon? Are you

who had been hurling insults at

eyes cold and fathomless. His voice dropped, sharp enough

“Are you questioning me?”

caught in her throat. She couldn’t utter

him–his aura and the weight of his silence. Under

at Sharon’s ankle. “It’s sprained. I’ll take you to the hospital now.” Before she could reply, he

a voice–equally low but tinged with

“Oh? What a crowd.”

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Chapter 29

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