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?”

as if a shadow had fallen across his features. “Since you know she’s my wife, Mr. Cooper, what exactly are you doing here at the crack of

no one knew who

married.

Cooper Group was powerful, on par with the Biggs family in terms of influence. In recent years, it had been leaning toward

gaze with calm, unflinching ease and a

your wife, yet you didn’t think to ask if she’d eaten, or how she’s

words hang before adding lightly, “If you don’t care for Sharon,

accusation. “We’re here to question

him a glance, slow and

right to interrogate her. If there’s a problem, let the police handle it.

All of you, please

are you to kick us out?! She kicked me and Kelly down

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

even capable of getting out of