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

considerate. So considerate he let another woman’s

front of her face.

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

smiled, the way a close girlfriend might, and chimed in lightly,

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, he’ll guilt them for being unkind and accuse them of being

liking to something-doesn’t matter if it’s mine or not, even if it belonged to someone who’s passed away—if I

need to do is shed a few tears, look pitiful enough, and he’ll lose all logic and take

personally prepares a healing tonic for me. Because otherwise, how would I know he actually

stiffened, and the

as she was, could hear

Theo furrowed his brows. Something about what his mom

sounded eerily like

thought lingered in his mind, and finally he couldn’t help asking, “But… if someone pretends to be pitiful like

people are good at pretending. And because

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protect the ones they care about more. Even when

themselves in Theo’s chest like

already starting to side with