Side Chick Era... Over

Loving Mom 38

Chapter 38

Kelly wiped at the corners of her eyes. “Sharon, I know you’ve always held a grudge over the past I shared with Carter. But that’s all behind us now… It’s over. Everyone has a past. Is it really so hard to forgive something that’s already gone?”

Her pupils quivered faintly. “Or is it that you won’t be satisfied until I’m dead?”

Sharon looked up, a quiet smile curving on her lips.

“Well then,” she said lightly. “Go ahead. Die.”

Carter’s face darkened. “Sharon!”

She let out a low, mocking laugh. “What’s with that face, Carter? She’s the one who said it first, didn’t she? Not me. Or do people only ever blame others when someone decides to die?”

Kelly’s eyes flew wide. Tears streamed from them in thick, heavy drops. Then, suddenly, she shot up from the wheelchair and bolted toward the window.

“If Sharon wants me to die, then I’ll die!”

“Kelly, don’t do anything stupid!” Nate cried out, panicked, rushing to stop her.

path. His voice came sharp and low. “Kelly, what the hell

wants me dead so badly, then just let me die! Let go

said

she screamed, “I never should’ve come back! I never should’ve shown my

descended into chaos, Kelly flailing and shrieking, everyone shouting over each other-until a laugh

noise, crisp as shattered

doesn’t want you to die,” Sharon said with a light, sunny voice, “then

shit?”

to take my words very seriously, Kelly. Surely you won’t refuse this one,

furious, trembling with rage as he

is

die, and she tried. Now I’m being kind and letting her live-yet you’re all still unhappy. Why? Do you think it’s better if

mock realization. “Oh, I get it now. You all think

Nate’s eyes burned red, his jaw clenched so tightly it trembled. But in the end, he was so infuriated, he couldn’t even get

his tone low and menacing. “Sharon.

and the smile faded from her

ones who should back off,” she said

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