Time passed in silence until Carter spoke again."Whatever the case, whatever happened between me and Kelly is in the past now. She doesn't have much time left. There's no point in talking about this anymore. Don't you want Theo to have a complete family?"He didn't deny it—that was admission enough.Sharon hadn't expected it, not like this. In the end, she'd still become Kelly's replacement, just by another name.How pathetic, she thought. On all those sleepless nights—nights when Carter had ignored her, forgotten her—she'd still clung to memories of how he had once protected her, stood up for her, been kind to her.She'd comforted herself, told herself lies to get through it. She had convinced herself that he had, at some point, truly cared.But now even those fragments of warmth felt like a joke.She said, "Because Kelly doesn't have long to live, because she can't be Theo's mom forever or your wife forever, that's why you haven't brought up divorce yet, isn't it?"If Kelly
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