Side Chick Era... Over

Chapter 964

Thomas’s question was bordering on being intrusive, considering their relationship.

But Sharon still answered honestly. “Not for now.”

“And later?”

“Later?” She thought for a moment, then smiled faintly. “Who can really say what the future holds?”

Thomas pressed further. “Would you ever remarry Carter for Theo’s sake?”

This time, Sharon didn’t hesitate. She shook her head instinctively. “No.”

Outside the door, Carter, who had just raised his hand to knock, froze mid-motion.

Inside, Thomas’s voice sounded again. “You were together for five years. You share a child. Can you really let that go?”

Sharon’s voice followed quickly, firm and clear.

“Staying together reluctantly for Theo’s sake-that would be the greatest injustice. Not only to the Theo, but also to myself and to

the marriage.

“Back then, I tolerated so much because of Theo. I believed I was sacrificing and giving everything for that family. But in truth,

neither Theo nor Carter needed my kind of sacrifice.

if I bore some great grievance… That, too, is a kind of emotional blackmail,

lost five years, but at least I

asked, “Then… do you still

came without pause. “No.

door. His lips curved with the faintest

did not step in.

some reason, he no longer knew how

hearing her say it out loud struck him like a hammer

his

gave a bitter

He wanted Sharon to be as she once was, yet part of him knew-this life she

be what

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current version of Sharon, would he still be so desperate

chamber was dim

corner, half-conscious. His body

cuts from blades-some injuries had already festered

reeked

Lex been so degraded and stripped

as if he had been

whenever he did, he brought new torments.

And still, Lex endured.

hold out until rescue, no matter how