Side Chick Era... Over

Loving Mom 49

Chapter 49

If Sharon was right, the live broadcast had already been cut.

Everything she was about to reveal today-none of it would make it out. It would only look like she had called a press conference for nothing, played a trick on the public, and walked away with empty hands. (1)

Carter would still be able to run full-scale PR for Kelly. He might even find a way to twist this back on her. He really didn’t hold

back.

In the quiet of the backstage lounge, Sharon looked at Carter.

“Mr. Biggs, what is it you want to say to me?”

His voice was calm and low, like water with no ripples. “I’ll take care of the online attacks, the public backlash…”

Before he could finish, Sharon interrupted him coolly.

“If all you have to offer is pressure and silence, I’m afraid I’ll have to refuse. Even if you manage to erase every post, scrub the news clean-what’s imprinted in people’s hearts won’t vanish. Those labels-vicious, a murderer-it’s already been carved in.”

deep black

public anger again, provoke a

scabbed wound on her forehead.

make a statement to clear

clear my name? After all this time, after my scandal’s been plastered everywhere? Isn’t it a

you have any

shifted slightly. “I

hesitation, he

you should hear

“Go ahead.”

condition,” she said, “I want

dimmed. That wasn’t a

you need that much

“I’ve been cursed out for days. You don’t seriously think an apology from

brief silence, Carter spoke,

laughed inside. For Kelly, he really was willing to give anything. Ten million, just

air again. “So