Side Chick Era... Over

hapter 972

Ginny and Rick walked into the back garden and stopped.

Ginny turned to face Rick. “Rick, whatever you have to say, you can say it here.”

Rick replied, “Ginny, back when you and Sharon were classmates, did she ever tell you about our family?”

Her brows lifted slightly. She caught the unspoken meaning behind his words.

Was he implying that Sharon had revealed her identity just to befriend her?

A trace of irony flickered through Ginny’s mind, though none of it touched her face. She smiled lightly. “No. When we first met Sharon, none of us knew anything about her background.”

“Is that so?” Rick’s tone was even, but disbelief shadowed his features.

though her voice remained as soft

ourselves. During school holidays, all of us went home. Only Sharon never did.

gaze, lips curved in a polite smile, but her eyes brimmed

low blood sugar, overworked and exhausted. We were baffled. Why would she need to earn her own tuition

went on, we realized we had never once seen her receive a phone call from home.

hadn’t been destitute. But when

had once offered to lend Sharon money, but Sharon refused, insisting she could manage–that it wasn’t

up her phone to try and contact her family. The man who answered–perhaps it was Silas–didn’t even let me speak. He said, ‘If you had the backbone to run away from

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throat tightened. “Why didn’t you call

“We couldn’t. Sharon’s contacts listed only classmates and friends. The two numbers I tried came from her call log–and even those had no names saved. It seems