Side Chick Era... Over

Loving Mom 282

Chapter 282

Sharon frowned at him. “You’re not backing out now, are you, Carter?”

Carter’s voice was cold. “After everything you just said, do you really think I’d back out?”

No man with even a shred of pride would.

Still, who knew what kind of twisted schemes Carter might be brewing in that mind of his?

When it came to calculation and control, Sharon knew she was no match for him.

Carter smiled faintly, but his eyes stayed ice cold.

“I haven’t tested your medicine yet. What if you’re handing me poison? I’d end up with nothing-money spent, marriage ended,

and no real payoff.”

There was a time he would’ve believed Sharon wouldn’t dare lie to him.

But now? That was no longer certain.

The reckless spending these past few days, the chaos she kept dragging him into-it was enough to prove she wasn’t the timid, cautious woman she used to be.

she was

think about how easily she could be tossed aside

marriage ended, and no

a deal

wouldn’t have survived in such a cold, loveless marriage for so long. But whatever he felt, it had never been

touched her lips, laced

or poisoned? That’s easy

the door, where Kelly had been

two hadn’t divorced yet, and that

be regretting

him in check, warning him not to act impulsively in case Sharon changed her mind last minute, Nate would’ve taken revenge

panic in Kelly’s face,

is worried I’d give you fake medicine,” she said. “Wouldn’t want to

few pill

to pick a few pills from each bottle and run your tests. If there’s no issue, we’ll go ahead and finalize the paperwork. If there is a problem… well, then we’ll have to take a step back and think things

Kelly’s eyes flickered. “Fine.”

a few pills from each bottle

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“Wait,” Sharon said.

then turned back stiffly. “Is… is something

Not now. Not when a single bad mood could make Sharon change her mind