Side Chick Era... Over

Loving Mom 39

Chapter 39

Without another word, Xavier turned away from the others and placed the thermos he’d brought down on the table.

“You haven’t eaten yet, have you? I brought breakfast.”

“Thank you,” Sharon said softly, her voice touched with quiet gratitude.

Nate, seeing that a stranger had come to visit her, couldn’t resist a sneer.

“Well, well, well. You haven’t even divorced Carter yet, and you’ve already lined up your next guy? This is a hospital, you know. No matter how eager you are, maybe try to keep things discreet?”

He paused, glancing at Carter, and held back from saying anything too crude. Still, his tone dripped with contempt. “Sharon, do you even have any shame left?”

Xavier didn’t look at him. Instead, he turned to Carter with a faint, ambiguous smile.

“Mr. Biggs, even if you don’t care for Sharon, is it really necessary to team up with your lady friend-and her companion-to bully your own wife while she’s lying in a hospital bed, weak and recovering?”

know she’s my wife, Mr. Cooper,

been living abroad in a country called Leistre. He had a five-year-old child, though no one knew who the mother was. Rumors said the boy was

married.

Group was powerful, on par with the Biggs family in terms of influence. In recent

met Carter’s gaze with calm, unflinching ease

to ask if she’d eaten, or how she’s recovering. Instead, you brought

adding lightly, “If you

here to question Sharon-this murderer-about why she

cast him a glance, slow and almost

have no right to interrogate her. If there’s a problem, let the police handle

All of you,

“Hey, who the hell are you to kick us out?! She kicked me and

down?” Xavier looked amused, as if someone had just told him

Sharon is even capable of getting out of bed, let alone