Side Chick Era... Over

Chapter 549

Hearing Carter’s words, Sharon realized–with a quiet jolt-that he was choosing her.

It caught her off guard, but only just. In truth, it made a strange kind of sense. This was who Carter had always been: cool- headed, rational to a fault.

Even now, she could feel a toxic stare boring into her.

She turned her head and found Kelly glaring at her, lips bloodless from being bitten down hard, eyes red with fury.

Kelly hadn’t expected this. Not at all.

Carter had been given two choices, and he had chosen Sharon. He had divorced Sharon for her. How could he choose Sharon

now?

A cold smirk tugged at the corner of Sharon’s lips.

Kelly had played the same hand for years-her terminal illness, her tragic sweetness-tugging on Carter’s sympathy, weaving a perfect image of gentle suffering for the world to admire.

Now, she’d finally overplayed it.

Poetic justice.

Still, Sharon felt no joy in being chosen. She knew too well that it was nothing more than a cost-benefit analysis, just another one of Carter’s decisions made with his usual, mechanical precision.

From the sidelines, Dillon’s voice broke through the stillness. “So, Mr. Biggs, your choice… is your ex-wife, Sharon?”

a moment. Then

eyes widened in

She had bitten through her

ignored Nate and looked straight at

made my choice. Now let

“Sure. Sharon, you’re

and

everything went

cut

her back to Dillon, had no idea what was happening behind

Then came the gunshot.

over Theo, wrapping him

a voice screamed, ragged and

I’ll hold

It was Kelly.

and clung tightly to Dillon’s arm, shouting so

With a snarl, he

Smack.

snapped to the side. But she

she couldn’t feel the pain at all, she just held

This time, he threw her with all his

clawed her way back and clung to his leg, dragging him down,

froze. Stunned. No

Sharon saw her chance.