Side Chick Era... Over

Chapter 513

With that, any hope for the Hendricks family to turn things around would be gone.

Nate stood motionless, too afraid to speak.

Uriah turned his gaze toward Madeline. “You must be Sharon’s former mother-in-law?”

The moment Madeline saw the way he looked at her, she understood that he hadn’t come with friendly intentions.

He had come to settle a score.

Her expression stiffened. She forced a brittle smile and nudged Theo forward. “Mr. Malcolm, this is Sharon’s son. His name is Theo ”

Theo offered a polite greeting. “Hello, Mr. Malcolm.”

Uriah acknowledged him with a brief nod, but his attention was already drifting elsewhere.

“I have to say,” he murmured, “I owe meeting Sharon to you, Madeline.”

Madeline blinked, caught off guard. “Owe it to me?”

He nodded slightly. “Yes. If you hadn’t suffered from those persistent headaches, Sharon wouldn’t have gone to such lengths to find me. To help you, she came to me month after month, asking for medicine. It took six months of pleading before I finally agreed.”

“How is the medicine working for you?” he asked.

Madeline hadn’t expected this at all. The monthly medicine Sharon delivered, so quietly and consistently, had come from Uriah?

She’d taken it for two years now.

Her doctor had said the decades-old illness was nearly cured. With some emotional regulation and additional supplements, she could keep it from recurring altogether.

She spoke before thinking. “Your medicine works very well.”

Uriah’s eyes shifted to Theo.

“You’re Theo, right? Do you know-when your mother was collecting herbs to make a special spray for you, her hand got cut. That scar’s still there.”

Everyone instinctively looked at Sharon’s hand.

Sure enough, a faint scar ran across the back of it. But no one had ever really noticed it before.

Carter’s gaze darkened.

had an allergic reaction. Sharon had

what it was. That spray-she’d begged for it

as he turned to look at

were a stranger. Even when her eyes

Somehow, that bothered Carter.

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couldn’t explain it, but the thought crept in, ‘Maybe agreeing

mistake.’ (1

broke through the silence again, “Sharon would do anything for her family. I’ve always wanted to meet her family -the people she worked so hard for. But not once have they ever stepped foot into my

eyes turned red. She tried to defend herself. “It’s not

if you’d like to meet Mr. Malcolm. You said, ‘ What’s the

her mouth but couldn’t find anything to

had said that. She

to Theo

health started improving, I told you I wanted to introduce you to the man who helped you. You said you were going out with Kelly and didn’t have

his head,

turned

to come with me to thank Mr. Malcolm together. You said if it involved money, I should just ask your assistant. You said you didn’t

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Chapter 513

Hendricks family to turn things around would

motionless, too afraid

gaze toward Madeline. “You must be

he looked at her, she understood that he hadn’t come with friendly

had come to settle a

brittle smile and nudged Theo forward. “Mr. Malcolm, this is

offered a polite greeting. “Hello,

acknowledged him with a brief nod, but his attention

“I owe meeting Sharon to

blinked, caught off guard.

suffered from those persistent headaches, Sharon wouldn’t have gone to such lengths to find me. To help you, she came to me month after

medicine working for you?”

The monthly medicine Sharon delivered, so quietly and

it for

said the decades-old illness was nearly cured. With some emotional regulation and additional supplements, she could keep it from recurring

thinking. “Your

eyes shifted