Side Chick Era… Over의 모든 챕터: 챕터 2411 - 챕터 2420

The room was silent except for the soft scratch of charcoal moving across paper. Jamie sat by the window, his fingers long and strong, each knuckle sharply defined. Light spilled in from the side, catching half his face in brightness while the other half sank into shadow, his features carved so deep they looked almost cold and hard.On the paper, the outline of a woman was slowly taking shape. Her brows and eyes weren't fully rendered yet, except for a single pair of eyes he'd already sketched over and over. The charcoal kept moving—her hair lifted by an ocean breeze, drawn with such painstaking detail it looked as though the wind really had once stirred those strands, as if he were simply tracing a memory with perfect fidelity.This was the same island where he and Sharon had once lived together for a month. To escape him back then, Sharon had painted constantly, and by pure coincidence, more than half of those paintings had been of Little Tabby. He hadn't set foot here in a lon

Wendy lowered her head. "I lied to him so many times, and I never once kept a promise I made him. Whatever else is true, he protected me with his own life. This is really the one thing I've ever done for him.""Wendy, what are your plans going forward?" Sharon asked. "Once your son's older, would you consider marriage, or dating again?"Wendy shook her head. "Sharon, you know I'm afraid of marriage. Men... I think I'll pass on that. I love kids, though—if I ever had to get married, it'd only be because I wanted to be a mother. "Honestly, I've thought about it before—finding a man with good genes, having a baby with him, and raising it alone. Lesley, whatever else you say about him, had great looks, sharp intelligence, and a solid personality. If I went looking on my own, I doubt I'd ever find genes that good again."Sharon looked at Wendy and let out a silent sigh. In the old days, Wendy would've suggested keeping a string of male models or pretty boy toys. Now, though, she had

A child born of the person she loved most, especially—Sharon could never quite get enough of looking at him. She'd just finished telling Thomas he spoiled Harper too much, and now here she was, unable to put Grayson down herself. There was nothing to be done about it—he really was just that adorable. Sharon bent down and pressed a light kiss to his cheek.Seeing this, Thomas raised an eyebrow."Sharon, you can't hold him all the time, especially not a boy," he said. "Get him used to it, and he'll wake up the second you set him down, and he'll turn spoiled besides."Sharon shot him a look. "And what about you, holding Harper all day long?""Harper's a girl," Thomas said. "A little spoiled is fine for her."Sharon was once more speechless.Whatever he said always somehow made sense to him.A while later, Harper let out a yawn and drifted off to sleep too. Sharon and Thomas left the nursery without disturbing the twins any further.Sharon brought up Wendy's situation. "Wendy sai

And it would let him stay far away from a place as steeped in scheming and grudges as the Waltons.After facing death himself, Lesley had come out the other side with real clarity. What he'd never been able to let go of was never the Walton Group's shares or fortune—it was the blood feud running through the whole family. The Waltons were like a pit bred for scorpions and snakes; live there long enough, and hatred would eat through you day after day. Lesley wanted nothing more to do with the place.But when Wendy told him that Jamie had agreed to return the shares and hand over the family headship, Lesley couldn't help thinking back to how she'd deceived him before. Wendy hadn't expected such a strong reaction—to her, this was obviously good news. Hadn't Lesley always wanted the Walton Group back for himself? She'd forgotten that after everything he'd been through, his priorities had shifted completely. The two of them had actually broken up over it.It was only later, after Thom

Harper was smart and adorable, with a sweet, disarming way of talking. The way she greeted outsiders in that soft, honeyed voice made even strangers on the street adore her instantly—let alone Wendy. It was, in fact, seeing Harper that had first planted the fierce desire in Wendy to have a daughter of her own.Harper would inherit the Kalen family someday. Unlike the Ferreros, the Kalens weren't nearly as difficult to manage, and she'd never have to claw her way to power the hard way like Sharon had. As for Grayson...From the day he was born, he'd been set on a far harder road.Seeing Sharon come downstairs, Grayson set down his Rubik's cube and rose obediently to his feet."Mom."Grayson's temperament didn't take after Sharon, and it didn't take after Thomas either. He was unusually quiet, nothing like a boy his age should be. Theo had still been fairly childish at that same age, but Grayson was remarkably mature for his years. Sharon sometimes wondered if Thomas had been li