Side Chick Era... Over

Loving Mom 184

Chapter 184

Sharon didn’t so much as flinch under Nate’s glare.

“So, Nate,” she said calmly, “have you made up your mind?”

In the crowd, quite a few people had business ties with Nate’s family-and just as many came from rival families.

Nate had never been known for watching his mouth. He’d offended more people than he could remember. If he backed out of his bet now, the whole thing would get blown out of proportion. It could even damage his family’s company.

Still, resentment simmered beneath his skin. He turned toward Carter, silently begging for backup. If anyone could stop Sharon, it was him. She always listened to Carter.

But Carter didn’t look his way. His expression was unreadable, his eyes locked on Sharon.

Nate’s jaw twitched, humiliation tightening every muscle in his body. Then, under the weight of silence and watching eyes, he dropped to his knees.

“Woof… woof, woof!”

broke into laughter. They couldn’t

had slapped him, yet his face throbbed like it had been struck.

ever prepared, recorded the entire

try bullying

turned away in disgust. The whole

But Madeline wasn’t nearly as

finish high school. Barely made it past middle school. So what if she can play the violin? All real musicians graduate

member of the Biggs family was smiling. They looked more like they

No matter how talented Sharon was, her lack of formal education would always be a stain. If she ever made it big, that flaw would be dragged back out and used

may be, winning is still winning. If you have that much time to put others down,

shifted slightly and landed on Theo, who was

of parenting is raising someone who can’t handle other people’s success and reacts with jealousy… then all I

what she came here to do. There