Side Chick Era Over (Sharon and Carter) novel Chapter 591

Chapter 591

Wendy had only asked on a whim. She didn’t really expect Sharon to know the artist. It was just that Sharon had studied painting too, so maybe she’d heard something.

But Sharon said, “I do.”

Everyone turned to look at her.

Even Xavier didn’t know Aurora’s true identity.

Wendy lit up. “Seriously? Sharon, you know someone that amazing? Don’t tell me you studied painting with her?”

Sharon turned to Wendy. “Do you know what ‘Aurora’ means?”

Wendy, ever the academic, wasn’t stumped by the question. “Aurora-Roman goddess of the dawn. It can also mean the northern lights, or just dawn, morning light…”

Her voice trailed off, as if something had just clicked.

She opened her mouth, eyes wide. “No way. It can’t be…”

Sharon could see she’d figured it out. “That’s right. Aurora is Victoria.”

Xavier looked over at Victoria too. “It’s Victoria?”

Surprise flickered across his face, tinged with something like inevitability.

That Victoria could paint wasn’t exactly shocking. After all, music, chess, calligraphy, and painting were practically required for daughters of elite families. Some even learned flower arrangement and dance, and if they were being groomed for the family business, they studied finance too. The competition was brutal.

Wendy’s excitement dimmed, like a flame doused with cold water. “It’s her, huh.”

She didn’t say more, though it was clear she had something else on the tip of her tongue.

True, Victoria had never openly made trouble for Sharon, and the two of them had always maintained a surface-level politeness. But that didn’t mean they could ever truly get along.

The reason was simple.

If it hadn’t been for Victoria’s mother, Sharon’s mother would never have left home for so many years. If Sharon’s mother had ever found it in herself to forgive Richard or Victoria, she might not have died without ever seeing Richard again.

Victoria might have been innocent. But Sharon was even more so.

And now, because of Richard’s lie, Sharon’s identity had been thrown into a mess. Unless Victoria came forward and admitted she was the illegitimate daughter, there was no way out of this.

But would Victoria ever do that?

Of course not.

If she ever made her true status public, everything she’d worked for all these years would collapse.

An illegitimate daughter was markedly different from a legitimate heir

Victoria was indeed talented. Her excellence softened the edges of that label. And in this day and age, being born out of wedlock

wasn’t the scandal it used to be.

But Victoria had spent too long perched on that pedestal, playing the untouchable goddess. There was no way someone with her

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pride would ever accept being knocked down a notch. Not in this lifetime.

At that moment, the host wrapped up his introduction.

“We’ll now begin the bidding. Starting price: 300 thousand. Minimum increment: one thousand.”

The words had barely left his mouth when Cole raised his paddle. “500 thousand.”

Gasps rippled through the room.

A 200 thousand jump right out of the gate-was he aiming for seven figures?

Wendy smirked. “Didn’t the host just claim each of her paintings sells for over a million? I actually believed her work was that in demand. Turns out it’s all internal hype. They’re inflating the value among themselves.”

She wasn’t trying to be fair. She knew she was biased against Victoria.

Just then, a low, cool voice cut through the noise.

“Soo thousand.”

Wendy froze.

Even Sharon turned instinctively toward the sound.

The bidder wasn’t some stranger.

It was Carter.

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