Side Chick Era... Over

Loving Mom 78

Chapter 78

“Carter’s out of town on business,” Kelly said lightly, her smile touched with a faint, weary grace. “That’s the only reason I could meet with you today. Otherwise…”

She let the words hang in the air awhile, then continued, “Otherwise, he’d never have allowed me to leave the hospital.”

“Is that why you asked me here? Just to show off?”

“I heard you and Carter are talking about divorce,” Kelly replied. “I don’t know if you’re really serious or just putting on a show, but it doesn’t matter. It won’t change a thing.”

Unlike Nate’s blatant arrogance, Kelly’s every word and movement carried an unshakable confidence.

“Between the two of us, he will always choose me first.”

Sharon listened in silence, then said, “If that’s true, why did he marry me, not you?”

a small laugh. “Because I let him go. The things you can’t have always seem more desirable, don’t they? Otherwise,

the waiter arrived with their coffee. The rich aroma floated up between them-warm, sharp, with a bitter edge

playing along. “Is

Kelly answered with a smile. “She’s with Carter. She’s the reason I

locked on her. “You’re

friend? She stood up for you, yelled at me, offended Carter, and you don’t even know where

know

don’t. But from what Carter implied, he’s giving her a taste of her own medicine. Making her brush past death,

said to me that day, yes, it shook me. But she wasn’t the real reason I tried to take my life. I don’t want things to go that far. I really don’t. But I can’t talk him down. Carter’s

behalf. She was showing off. Showing that Carter would go this far, would

rising from the

you don’t want anyone to die,” Sharon said evenly, “then

don’t know. I only came here

“His flight’s about to land. If he doesn’t