Side Chick Era... Over

Chapter 503

Abby looked at her father with a flicker of surprise in her gaze.

“You want to adopt Sharon as your foster daughter?”

Kenneth nodded. “She and John grew up together and share a sibling-like bond. The Westin family has very few heirs. Taking in a foster daughter is hardly an issue.”

When Sharon was brought back into the Kalen family, she had still been in school and had never appeared in any public setting. Aside from those very close to the Kalen family, few had actually seen her in person. Most people simply assumed she was just an ordinary girl.

Although Abby and Victoria were on good terms, Abby had been studying abroad during that period. And Victoria, always guarded, had never once mentioned Sharon to her. And, of course, Victoria had no intention of letting others know she was an illegitimate daughter.

Abby scoffed. “You’re just worried John might want to marry Sharon, so you’re adopting her to cut off that possibility, aren’t you?”

Kenneth didn’t deny it. “Sharon is Carter’s ex-wife, and she has a child. That makes her unsuitable to become the future lady of the Westin family.”

of custom. When he was younger, Kenneth had believed that love could conquer all.

familial interference, the deeper issue had been incompatibility in daily life. Their separation had been

a divorced woman with a modest education, her

young, but learning has no age limit. Once she officially becomes part of our family, we’ll send her back to school for further studies. Becoming a well-rounded, cultured heiress will benefit her, especially if she considers remarriage

spoke with genuine consideration. He wasn’t thinking about status or image, but about giving Sharon

even agreed to be adopted yet, and her father

but didn’t voice

father’s proposal

“sister,” then her father would stop hovering over her every day, constantly nagging her to

for academics,

was still around, he had shouldered that pressure. But

as she could enjoy a life of luxury and never run out of spending

and she

officially join their family. She silently vowed to cultivate a