Side Chick Era Over (Sharon and Carter) novel Chapter 340

Chapter 340

“All these years, my mother had received plenty of tips like that…sighthigs, rumors. She didn’t hold out much hope.” Sharon’s voice was calm, but carried an undertone of something hollow. ” when she actually went there… the man really was my father.

“She was shocked. Overwhelmed. She didn’t even have time to ask why he’d been alive all this time, yet hadn’t contacted her for three whole years.”

Xavier’s brow lifted slightly, as if something clicked in his mind. “Don’t tell me… he had amnesia?”

Sharon nodded, her lips curving into a faint, helpless smile. “Yeal Pretty cliché, isn’t it? He lost his memory. And–brace yourself–he married the fisherwoman who saved him.”

Xavier’s expression shifted subtly, though he said nothing.

“When my father found out he already had a wife… and children… He couldn’t accept it,” Sharon continued. “To him, my mother and us kids were complete strangers. The woman who’d saved him the one who stayed by his side when his mind was blank- she was his anchor, his salvation.”

Xavier leaned back slightly, gaze narrowing. “So…. he was ready to abandon the entire Kalen family empire, to walk away from his status, his life… just to stay with her?”

Sharon nodded again. “Exactly. He didn’t remember my mom. He didn’t remember anything. No attachment to his past. No sense of belonging to the Kalen family. In the end, it was my grandfather who pressured him… threatened him using the fisherwoman… and forced him to come back.”

Xavier thought for a beat. “When your father went missing at sea…. the Kalen family must’ve blanketed the world with search notices, right?”

“Of course.” Sharon glanced at him, thinking once again how sharp this man was.

She went on, “But the thing that enraged my mother most… was that the fisherwoman knew exactly who my father was. She knew his identity. And instead of contacting the Kalen family… she hid him. For three years.”

Xavier nodded slowly, understanding dawning.

“I’ve met Mr. Kalen a few times. Even at his current age, the man is charismatic–refined, elegant. I can only imagine how striking he must’ve been when he was young.”

Sharon continued, “The fisherwoman fell for him. And even though she knew perfectly well he had a wife and kids, she fabricated an entire backstory and lied to him. She saved his life… they lived together as husband and wife for three years. And when the truth finally surfaced, my father couldn’t bring himself to blame her.”

“After he returned to the Kalen family,” Sharon said quietly, “she followed him.”

Her eyes darkened, filling with something cold and sharp.

“Maybe it’s that ‘a day as husband and wife is worth a hundred days of grace‘ thing… but my father felt guilty. He arranged for her to stay nearby. My mother… because she knew my father had lost his memory trying to save her, she tolerated it. She tolerated everything.

“But that woman wasn’t content. She kept trying to drive a wedge between them. My father still hadn’t regained his memory back then… and for a while… that fisherwoman nearly succeeded.

“Just after my parents signed the divorce papers… his memory came back.

“He tore up the papers on the spot. Refused to go through with it. My mother… maybe out of guilt, maybe because she still cared

forgave him.

“My father promised my mother that he’d send the fisherwoman away.

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“But a year later… she showed up again. This time… holding a little girl in her arms. She gave my mother two options, One–let them raise the child together. Two–divorce, and she’d raise the child herself.

“No matter how tolerant my mother was, there was no way she could accept living every day with a reminder of that child. She decided to divorce. But my father… refused.”