Side Chick Era... Over

Chapter 867

Sharon’s reply was polite and restrained. “Thank you.”

After that, she turned toward Victoria, who was still lying on the hospital bed.

“Victoria, how are you feeling now?”

She could bring herself to call Richard her father and Rick her brother, but she could never call Victoria her sister. The word felt false, hollow, almost hypocritical.

Victoria didn’t seem to mind. She smiled faintly. “I’m fine. With some rest, it shouldn’t affect the competition.”

Sharon nodded. “That’s good.”

Then she shifted her gaze to Richard. “If there’s nothing else, I’ll be going.”

Richard inclined his head. “Alright. You’ve had a long day. Go get some rest.”

After Sharon left, Rick finally spoke.

“Victoria, be honest with me and Dad. When you said you blocked the acid for Johanna, were you actually covering for Sharon?”

Victoria’s expression carried a trace of helplessness. “No. What I said was the truth.”

His falcon-sharp gaze lingered on her face. Only when he saw no sign of evasion did he finally look away. 2

Outside the ward.

saw Sharon enter Victoria’s ward with the Kalen family, she

We could go to the club for some shooting

shown interest in

tried to be

at her, his voice cool and clipped. “No

in disbelief. He

had never happened

1/3

of panic crossed

it be… had he found out she wasn’t

Her composure faltered.

the Ferrero family, she had regarded him as hers- as if he were

hold of his sleeve. “Thomas,

could finish, the ward door swung

Sharon stepped out.

at the sight of them, Johanna clutching his arm, and felt a flicker of

something? Sharon wondered.

away-deliberately avoiding her, as if he couldn’t even

Johanna really so jealous that she wouldn’t

toward Johanna,

be… they’d quarreled? Was that why Thomas had been so

but it wasn’t her