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Loving Mom 258

Chapter 258

Back when Sharon was pregnant, the symptoms hit her hard.

Everything she had going on-her work, her plans-had to be put on hold.

She had once intended to return to her career after giving birth. But Theo was born prematurely. In the end, she stayed home to care for him.

And just like that, five years passed. She’d missed more opportunities than she could count.

Sharon shook her head. “My mom once told me that Warner is strict-very strict. He hates favoritism, especially when people try to pull strings or sneak someone into his inner circle.

“Mom had a junior back in the day-extremely gifted-but she was expelled from the maestro’s tutelage because of something

like that.”

sparked. “Really? What happened?

already know-Warner only takes students with real talent. The kind

not rarer.

cello. And she was good-so good that my mother said even her

looked stunned. “That

because they’re easier to train—it’s because he’s searching. He wants to know where the limits of human talent

returned to

it was pressure from home, but she ended up recommending her cousin to Warner. Warner listened to the cousin play and decided

events, to gain

he set a rule: no student of his is allowed to recommend family or friends. If they do, they’re out. He said, if

exhaled slowly, realization dawning. “I see. I always wondered-your talent’s incredible, and your mom was one of his students. Why didn’t she ever put in

a trace of regret in her voice,

it doesn’t matter. You’re so good-sooner or later, someone will notice. Oh, by the way-Sharon, our account’s follower count is almost at

had been uploading videos of Sharon

that revealed her, briefly. Just a side profile, the angle distant and unremarkable. Still, even from that glimpse-her silhouette, her face-there was