Side Chick Era... Over

Loving Mom 130

Chapter 130

Time passed in silence until Carter spoke again.

“Whatever the case, whatever happened between me and Kelly is in the past now. She doesn’t have much time left. There’s no point in talking about this anymore. Don’t you want Theo to have a complete family?”

He didn’t deny it-that was admission enough.

Sharon hadn’t expected it, not like this. In the end, she’d still become Kelly’s replacement, just by another name.

How pathetic, she thought. On all those sleepless nights-nights when Carter had ignored her, forgotten her-she’d still clung to memories of how he had once protected her, stood up for her, been kind to her.

She’d comforted herself, told herself lies to get through it. She had convinced herself that he had, at some point, truly cared.

But now even those fragments of warmth felt like a joke.

She said, “Because Kelly doesn’t have long to live, because she can’t be Theo’s mom forever or your wife forever, that’s why you haven’t brought up divorce yet, isn’t it?”

If Kelly had a long life ahead of her, she knew exactly what would’ve happened-this father and son would’ve tossed her aside without hesitation.

She was nothing more than a fallback. A second-best option.

“Sharon, can you

unreasonable,” she replied coolly,

just a month ago, she had been agonizing

saw them hold that “mock wedding” in the

of home-and she couldn’t live without Theo, the child she had nearly died bringing into

whether he loved her or not. At least being with

life, the

child, she was willing to sacrifice anything, even her

once stooped low enough to count the

convinced herself that if Kelly was gone, everything would return to

But now?

felt nothing. Nothing but

Her delicate features were touched with a trace of

Kelly, don’t you?” Her voice was light, almost amused. “If

Carter froze, just slightly.

seen this side

she felt

1/2

no longer little. But when he thought about it, he didn’t feel like he really knew