Side Chick Era... Over

Loving Mom 146

Chapter 146

Carter noticed that after Sharon got in the car, she didn’t buckle her seatbelt. Instead, she just sat there, motionless, lost in thought.

“What is it?” he asked.

She didn’t respond. Her gaze was fixed, staring intently at something.

He followed her line of sight and saw the small sticker in front of her seat that read Reserved Seat. His eyes darkened slightly,

Without warning, he leaned in.

His tall frame loomed over her, and Sharon instinctively pulled back, her brows furrowing. But then, he reached out, only to draw the seatbelt from the side and fasten it for her.

She blinked, caught off guard.

His voice brushed against her ear. “Buckle up.” (1

From the back seat, Kelly’s expression twisted for the briefest second.

But she quickly covered it with a smile. “Sharon, even in the front seat, you should wear your seatbelt… See how considerate Carter is?”

laughed to

let another woman’s presence permeate everything-even down to the sticker

front of her face.

“Fastening a seatbelt counts as considerate now? Kelly, your

a close girlfriend might, and chimed in lightly, “Then tell me, Sharon, what would you

call, he’ll come to me. Even if I’ve made a mistake, he’ll instinctively make excuses for me. And if someone refuses to forgive me,

it belonged to someone who’s passed away—if I

and he’ll lose all logic and take my side

a healing tonic for me. Because otherwise,

the cheer

she was, could hear the pointed edge in

seat, Theo furrowed his brows. Something about what

sounded eerily like

and finally he couldn’t help asking, “But… if someone pretends to be pitiful like that, why would people just believe

and replied calmly, “Because some people are good at pretending. And because most

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when they sense something’s

themselves in Theo’s chest like

Mom was already starting to side with