Side Chick Era Over (Sharon and Carter) novel Chapter 377

Chapter 377

“But… your pronunciation just now wasn’t quite right,” Sharon said. “The correct pronunciation should sound like this”

She paused awhile.

Then, in flawless Spanish, she repeated every word Gregory had used earlier to mock her education.

Her voice was steady, light but precise, each syllable crisp, each tone textbook-perfect.

The entire hall fell silent.

Those who had moments ago been laughing along with Gregory now sat frozen, faces stiff, expressions collapsing into awkward disbelief.

Gregory’s facial muscles twitched. His face flushed red, then turned pale, then flushed again-like someone had slapped him clean across the face, even though no one had touched him.

It burned.

He was a professor, renowned in his field. Wherever he went, people called him Professor Finch with the utmost respect. He was fine when it came to academic research, translating papers, and dissecting texts. But spoken language… well, that was always

his weakness.

Still, no one ever challenged him on it. Not in front of children. Not in front of a crowd like this.

He’d never imagined that today, of all days, it would be a housewife-a woman who hadn’t worked in five years-who would utterly humiliate him.

Gregory desperately tried to pick apart her grammar and her pronunciation, anything to prove she was wrong.

But no matter how many times he replayed her words in his head, he found nothing. Not a single flaw.

Wasn’t she supposed to be someone with nothing more than a middle school education? Wasn’t she supposed to be a stay-at- home wife these past few years?

Then how-how-was her Spanish this perfect? How was her grammar this clean, her accent this pure?

It was impossible.

In the audience, Theo stared at his mother on stage, wide-eyed, stunned. His little hands clenched tightly in his lap.

Spanish was one of the three languages he was currently learning. He’d understood every word exchanged between Gregory and

his mother.

When the judge accused his mom of cheating, even Theo had almost believed it. Even he had doubted her, just like everyone

else.

Because… he’d never once thought his mom actually knew Spanish.

But now…

She wasn’t just speaking it, she was speaking it better than the judge.

Offstage, Kelly and Nate sat frozen in disbelief.

Nate, flustered, scrambled for an excuse. “She’s cheating! Must have someone feeding her lines through an earpiece or something!”

But even Denise, who was usually quick to side against Sharon, frowned.

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“That doesn’t even make sense,” she muttered. “Even if someone were feeding her lines… if she didn’t know the language at all, how could she speak it this fluently? This smoothly? No way.”

Kelly turned to Carter. “Carter… Sharon… does she really speak Spanish?”

Carter said nothing. He simply stared at the woman on stage, eyes dark, unreadable.

He didn’t know.

He’d never known she could play the violin.

And now… he was realizing he hadn’t even known she could speak Spanish. 1

Nate, still grasping for straws, muttered, “Maybe… maybe she secretly learned it when she was hiring Theo’s language tutors… yeah, that’s probably it.”

After all, since Theo had started talking, the Biggs family had hired multiple tutors for him to teach him several languages at

once.

Carter’s lips tightened. “Maybe,” he replied quietly.

It was the only explanation that made any sense.

But then-

Theo suddenly spoke. “What if… Mom has always known Spanish?”

Silence.

Every head turned toward him.

Nate scoffed. “Impossible. A middle school dropout? No way she knows Spanish.”

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