Side Chick Era... Over

Chapter 540

Carter had had enough of his mother’s tirade. “Mom, go upstairs.”

Without waiting for Madeline’s response, Denise stepped forward and gently but firmly guided her up. “Mom, just leave this to Carter. He’s got it handled.”

It wasn’t that she didn’t understand-her mother clearly didn’t. But she did.

Sharon was Theo’s biological mother, and with Uriah backing her, the Biggs family stood to gain quite a bit -if, that is, her mother could stop picking fights with Sharon.

Once Madeline left, the living room finally quieted down.

Julliard’s gaze drifted toward Carter, who had barely spoken, whose presence seemed almost nonexistent, and yet somehow impossible to ignore.

“And he is…?”

Sharon, her thoughts clearly elsewhere, replied flatly, “Just a friend.”

Julliard didn’t press. Her tone said enough.

As they stood there, still trying to piece together the kidnapper’s motive, Carter’s phone rang.

was from an

slightly. He looked up at Sharon before answering, and put it

now.” The voice was distorted through a modulator. “If you want them alive, don’t call

I won’t call

his and Julliard’s capabilities, handling this without

million a head. We trade cash for people. Oh, and…” The voice paused, as if recalling something. “Send your ex-wife. She’ll be handling the exchange. And don’t try anything clever. I don’t have that kind of

tone remained unreadable. “I

cut out.

room had heard

first. “I’ll have my people trace the

pulled out his phone and

Carter turned to Sharon.

gave a

balance, Sharon chose to set aside all

hesitation, a faint gleam surfaced in

time, it wasn’t just Theo who’d been taken. Kelly

the last time, when she demanded 100 million for the medication

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