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.

snapped. “Sharon, can

I’m unreasonable,” she replied

just a month ago, she had

hold that “mock wedding” in the name of making up for past

had once given her a sense of home-and she couldn’t live without Theo, the child

herself that it didn’t matter whether he loved her or not. At

life, the

their child, she was willing

count the days, secretly

Kelly was gone, everything would return to the way

But now?

nothing.

a soft laugh. Her delicate features were

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

Carter froze, just slightly.

never seen this

felt

1/2

little. But when he thought about it, he didn’t feel