Side Chick Era... Over

Chapter 851

When Victoria saw Johanna again, she could hardly believe her eyes.

“Johanna… you look really different!”

Johanna wore an elegant, ladylike dress. Her long hair cascaded smoothly down her back, so different from the image she had always shown the world.

Johanna gently adjusted a strand of hair and said softly, “Thomas told me my silhouette doesn’t match the one he remembers. In his memory, that back belonged to someone far more graceful.”

She paused briefly before continuing.

“I’ve done some digging. Kelly’s style has always been exactly that, so it’s no wonder Thomas mistook her for his savior. And as for Sharon…”

At the mention of Sharon, a glint of icy light flickered in Johanna’s eyes. (1

“She, too, once carried that kind of image.”

Something about it all felt off, but Victoria couldn’t quite place her finger on it.

“So, Johanna, does Thomas fully believe it’s you now?”

“Yes. But I want to

up and down. “But… to change yourself so completely, just for him… Is

a man? This is nothing more than a tactic-to win him over, to make

her brows knitting. “You’re still practicing the violin,

fully healed. Calluses still lingered, faint but telling-the unmistakable marks of

expression tightening with

my violin playing feel hollow. I’ve barely touched the violin in years,

technique, I easily neglected

Johanna, words caught on the tip

you

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never seen you pour so

deepened, pride and arrogance glinting between

worth

was no lovestruck softness in her face. She

you know I

persistence. By the time she realized

to speak again, but Johanna’s phone rang. She glanced at the screen, and the corner of her lips curved

“It’s Thomas.”

call was brief.