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.

came a voice from outside the chaos–low and cold, cutting through

aside. All of

A tall man stood at the edge of the

Sharon’s pupils contracted.

Xavier.

He crossed over to her, noticed her twisted ankle,

he said, lifting

like bees drawn to a bloom. But something about him–his presence, the cold force of it–held

your relationship with Sharon? Are you aware

had been hurling insults at Sharon moments earlier–pushed

black eyes cold and

“Are you questioning me?”

breath caught in her throat. She couldn’t utter

of his silence. Under

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

low but

“Oh? What a crowd.”

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Chapter 29

like water trickling

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