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.

frowned faintly, though her voice remained as soft and fluid as

course. We pieced it together ourselves. During school holidays, all of us went home. Only Sharon never did. She stayed outside, working part–time jobs

a polite smile, but

were several times she fainted from low blood sugar, overworked and exhausted. We were baffled. Why would she need to earn her own

realized we had never once seen her receive a phone call from home. The only family she ever mentioned was her mother–and she passed away not long

sum of money. Even after leaving the Kalen family, she hadn’t been destitute. But when Wendy’s family faced a crisis, Sharon and

she could manage–that it wasn’t yet to the point

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 home, why bother calling now?‘ Then he hung up before I could explain. “Later, I dialed another number–what I

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