Side Chick Era Over (Sharon and Carter) novel Chapter 764

Chapter 764

Damien most likely pinned that humiliation on Sharon, which was why he sought revenge a second time. After all, what man could tolerate such degradation-especially someone like Damien, a man of status and pride?

Sharon found Thomas’s reasoning sound.

Wendy lashed out at Carter, accusing him of being more trouble than help. With biting sarcasm, she sneered, “Carter, we can handle Sharon’s affairs ourselves. You don’t need to meddle. I can’t tell whether you came here to avenge her or to make her suffer more.

“You created this mess, yet Damien took his hatred out on Sharon. If you hadn’t acted on impulse last time, she wouldn’t have become his target, or ended up in a car accident.”

When Carter punished Damien, Wendy had felt it satisfying, even cathartic. But if he claimed it was all for Sharon’s sake, then why hadn’t he cleaned up the aftermath? How could he act so recklessly and leave her to bear the consequences?

Was this help? No, it was sabotage.

Carter’s brows furrowed slightly. “I told you, I only ordered my men to rough him up. I never told them to humiliate him. And I’ve never denied what I did.”

He hadn’t exactly hidden his involvement. A little digging would easily trace it back to him. He didn’t fear Damien’s retaliation. In fact, he had deliberately held back from going too far, precisely to keep Damien from turning his anger toward Sharon.

Yet somehow, Damien still placed the blame on her.

Wendy’s gaze grew colder, her contempt unmistakable.

Coward. He had the means to act, but no courage to face the consequences. Instead, he let a woman take the fall. Was his brain completely muddled by Kelly’s charms?

A man who dared to strike but not to shoulder responsibility wasn’t worthy of being called a man at all.

Inwardly, Wendy listed out ten sins of Carter without pause. She was about to continue when Sharon’s voice cut her off.

“That’s enough, Wendy.”

What was done was done. Pointing fingers now would change nothing.

She turned to Carter. “If there’s nothing else, you should leave. Thomas needs his rest.”

Carter wasn’t one to explain himself. The fact he had exchanged so many words with Wendy was already unusual. His eyes shifted back to Thomas.

“He still hasn’t answered my question.”

Sharon felt Carter was being utterly unreasonable. She opened her mouth to dismiss him, but before she could, the long-silent Thomas finally spoke.

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“Yes. It was me.”

All eyes swung to Thomas.

Leaning back against the bed, his tone was cool and detached. “He nearly killed me and Sharon in that car accident. Was it so wrong for me to repay him in kind? He tried to take lives. I only made him lose face- that was mercy. Besides…”

He paused, glanced at Julliard, and curved his lips into a faint, mocking smile. “This idea wasn’t even mine. Someone else inspired me. Truth be told, I’d never have thought of something so ingenious on my own. Whoever came up with it is, in a way, a genius. Don’t you agree, Julliard?”

For a fleeting moment, Julliard felt as if this Thomas had seen straight through him.

Impossible. Even Carter hadn’t suspected. He had left no trace, nothing to uncover. How could Thomas know?

Instinctively, Julliard flicked a glance at Sharon. She appeared calm, unbothered by Thomas’s words. Relieved, he forced a light smile.

“Come on, quit joking.”

He treated the remark as nothing more than casual banter. Sharon and Wendy did the same, neither believing Thomas truly capable of pulling off such a scheme.

The only ones unsettled were Carter-his gut telling him Thomas was far too suspicious-and Kelly, who remained silently on edge. 1

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