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.

chaos–low and cold, cutting through the clamor like a blade through

All

A tall man stood at the edge of

Sharon’s pupils contracted.

Xavier.

enough time. He crossed over to her,

he said, lifting her gently from the

the reporters surged again, like bees drawn to a bloom. But something about him–his presence,

your relationship with Sharon? Are

same one who had been hurling insults at Sharon moments earlier–pushed

her, his black eyes cold and fathomless. His voice dropped, sharp enough to pierce

“Are you questioning me?”

breath caught in her

of his silence. Under his

word, Xavier looked down at Sharon’s ankle. “It’s sprained. I’ll take

then, a voice–equally low but tinged with frost–broke

“Oh? What a crowd.”

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Chapter 29

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