Side Chick Era... Over

Loving Mom 242

Chapter 242

Sharon smiled faintly. “If even the most basic chores are too much for Kelly in your eyes, then I suppose there’s nothing more to

say.

“If you’re worried Mr. Malcolm might make things hard for her, you could always come with her every day. I doubt he’d mind. Who knows-he might even be moved by your sincerity and toss in your mother’s medicine while he’s at it.”

Simon couldn’t help glancing at Sharon again.

Sincerity.

That word made sense when it came to one’s own wife. But used in reference to one’s mistress-it carried a strange, bitter irony.

His mother’s medicine now depended on his wife’s sincerity, and yet Carter was exhausting himself on another woman’s behalf.

Of course, Carter wasn’t deaf to the sarcasm in her voice. “You don’t need to be so passive-aggressive. Even if Kelly is cured, I won’t be with her.”

just dawned. “So it’s not about legitimacy that turns you off-it’s that

“Sharon-”

buried. “Do you have anything else

didn’t wait for a reply. Turning her back to him, she resumed

there for a moment, watching her. Then he

had said to Kelly,

was sweet, overly gentle. “Mr. Malcolm, Sharon, Matty… you’re all

usually isn’t like that. I think there were just

Nate has. Why provoke him like that? There’s Mr. Malcolm, who’s already so advanced in years, and little Matty, who is still a child. Even if you don’t care about yourself, shouldn’t

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she’d shifted all

out a loud, disapproving grunt. “You’re useless at everything except running your mouth. Instead of yapping here, how about doing something useful for

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them, stunned. Her voice wavered. “Why… why are