Side Chick Era... Over

Chapter 591

Wendy had only asked on a whim. She didn’t really expect Sharon to know the artist. It was just that Sharon had studied painting too, so maybe she’d heard something.

But Sharon said, “I do.”

Everyone turned to look at her.

Even Xavier didn’t know Aurora’s true identity.

Wendy lit up. “Seriously? Sharon, you know someone that amazing? Don’t tell me you studied painting with her?”

Sharon turned to Wendy. “Do you know what ‘Aurora’ means?”

Wendy, ever the academic, wasn’t stumped by the question. “Aurora-Roman goddess of the dawn. It can also mean the northern lights, or just dawn, morning light…”

Her voice trailed off, as if something had just clicked.

She opened her mouth, eyes wide. “No way. It can’t be…”

Sharon could see she’d figured it out. “That’s right. Aurora is Victoria.”

Xavier looked over at Victoria too. “It’s Victoria?”

Surprise flickered across his face, tinged with something like inevitability.

Some even learned

like a flame doused with cold water. “It’s her,

was clear she had

Victoria had never openly made trouble for Sharon, and the two of them had always maintained a surface-level politeness. But that didn’t mean they could ever truly

The reason was simple.

hadn’t been for Victoria’s mother, Sharon’s mother would never have left home for so many years. If Sharon’s mother had ever found it in herself to forgive Richard or Victoria, she might not have died

But Sharon

of Richard’s lie, Sharon’s identity had been thrown into a mess. Unless Victoria came forward and admitted she was the illegitimate daughter,

would Victoria ever

Of course not.

her true status public, everything she’d worked for all these years would

markedly different from a

talented. Her excellence softened the edges of that label. And in

scandal it used

too long perched on that pedestal, playing the untouchable goddess. There was no

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accept being knocked down a notch. Not in this

moment, the host