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.

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

All

stood at the

Sharon’s pupils contracted.

Xavier.

crossed over to her, noticed her twisted ankle, and his gaze

taking you to the hospital,” he

to a bloom. But something about him–his presence, the

what’s your relationship with Sharon? Are you

reporter–the same one who had been hurling insults at Sharon

cold and

“Are you questioning me?”

breath caught in her throat. She couldn’t utter

aura and the weight of his silence.

“It’s sprained. I’ll take you to the hospital now.” Before she could

voice–equally low but tinged with

“Oh? What a crowd.”

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