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?”

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

floated up between them-warm, sharp, with a bitter edge

playing along. “Is Wendy

I tried to take my life. You think he’d let her off that

locked on her. “You’re saying she’s in Carter’s

raised her brows in mock surprise. “Isn’t she your closest friend? She stood up for you, yelled at me, offended Carter, and you don’t even

you know where she

slightly. “No. I don’t. But from what Carter implied, he’s giving her a taste of her own medicine. Making her brush past death, like I

don’t. But I can’t talk him down. Carter’s determined to do this

meeting was really about. Kelly wasn’t pleading on Wendy’s behalf. She was showing off. Showing that Carter would go this far, would hurt her friend, for her

rising from the

to die,” Sharon said evenly, “then tell me

know. I only came here hoping you’d speak to

checked her watch and stood up. “His flight’s about to land. If he doesn’t see me waiting, he’ll