Side Chick Era... Over

Loving Mom 340

Chapter 340

“All these years, my mother had received plenty of tips like that…sighthigs, rumors. She didn’t hold out much hope.” Sharon’s voice was calm, but carried an undertone of something hollow. ” when she actually went there… the man really was my father.

“She was shocked. Overwhelmed. She didn’t even have time to ask why he’d been alive all this time, yet hadn’t contacted her for three whole years.”

Xavier’s brow lifted slightly, as if something clicked in his mind. “Don’t tell me… he had amnesia?”

Sharon nodded, her lips curving into a faint, helpless smile. “Yeal Pretty cliché, isn’t it? He lost his memory. And–brace yourself–he married the fisherwoman who saved him.”

Xavier’s expression shifted subtly, though he said nothing.

“When my father found out he already had a wife… and children… He couldn’t accept it,” Sharon continued. “To him, my mother and us kids were complete strangers. The woman who’d saved him the one who stayed by his side when his mind was blank- she was his anchor, his salvation.”

Xavier leaned back slightly, gaze narrowing. “So…. he was ready to abandon the entire Kalen family empire, to walk away from his status, his life… just to stay with her?”

attachment to his past. No sense of belonging to the Kalen family. In the end, it was my grandfather who pressured him… threatened him using the fisherwoman… and forced him to come

father went missing at sea…. the

him, thinking

was that the fisherwoman knew exactly who my father was. She knew his identity. And instead of contacting the Kalen

nodded slowly,

times. Even at his current age, the man is charismatic–refined, elegant. I can

continued, “The fisherwoman fell for him. And even though she knew perfectly well he had a wife and kids, she fabricated an entire backstory and lied to him. She saved his life… they lived together as husband and wife for three

to the Kalen family,” Sharon said quietly,

filling with something cold

thing… but my father felt guilty. He arranged for her to stay nearby. My mother… because she knew my father had lost his memory trying to save her, she tolerated it. She tolerated

trying to drive a wedge between them. My father

after my parents signed the divorce papers… his memory

the spot. Refused to go through with