Side Chick Era... Over

Loving Mom 168

Chapter 168

Everything happened so fast-too fast for Kelly to react, let alone Wendy, or even Xavier and Matty.

Everyone had assumed Sharon would just swallow the humiliation quietly. No one saw that coming.

Setting the glass back on the table, Sharon gave a faint, composed smile. “You ruined my dress. I ruined yours. Fair, right? Since you’re so against changing, you can just wear it as-is.”

With that, she turned to walk away.

But before she could take a full step, a hand grabbed her wrist.

Behind her came Carter’s voice-low, cold, laced with frost. “Sharon.”

His tone was sharp enough to cut. “Kelly already apologized. She said it wasn’t on purpose. Did you really have to go that far?” (1

Sharon jerked her wrist free.

“I don’t care if it was an accident or not,” she said, her voice firm. “She ruined my dress, so she doesn’t get to walk into the showcase in hers. Adults take responsibility for their actions. Not every apology deserves forgiveness.”

eyes-dark as obsidian, glimmering like wet stones-locked

you don’t want her to suffer, keep her away from me.

that,

with anger, made a move

Nate yelled, his voice shaking. “All Kelly did

whole look’s

no amount of dabbing would fix

her look? The hair, the makeup, the styling-it had

a stylist last minute, what could they

the show-maybe for thirty minutes at best. Any longer, and no one

Nate thought about it, the angrier

to turn around and accuse the judges of bias and try to get Kelly disqualified! That’s it! That’s

her whole

had cost way more than Sharon’s. And the styling-her look had been

hard, fury

She would make sure Sharon

room, Wendy was