All Chapters of Side Chick Era… Over: Chapter 2431 - Chapter 2440

Victoria kept telling herself she had to hold on, that eventually the men who'd once admired her would come to save her, that Keira would grow up and come find her. She waited a long time, but none of her old admirers ever showed up. Somewhere along the way, she went from a pampered young heiress to an honest-to-goodness village woman.One day, after not having looked in a mirror for ages, she happened to catch her reflection and saw a strange, ugly face staring back. Her hair had turned into a dry, tangled mess, her skin dark and rough, weathered through and through, with none of the fair, delicate softness it used to have. She looked like a farm woman well past fifty.Victoria couldn't help but let out a scream.To trade for food, clothes, and daily necessities, she'd been forced to learn how to fish. But she was nowhere near as skilled as the people who'd grown up doing it their whole lives; the fish she caught were small and few, barely enough to keep her fed, and her life sta

Half-lost in dementia, Richard only ever remembered what he wanted to remember. Right now, he sat in his wheelchair glaring at Silas and Scott."Don't think I don't know what you two are scheming. You want to put me under house arrest and force me to hand over control! You two ungrateful sons, the moment you drove out Rick and Victoria, you started angling to seize the family's power for yourselves! Let me tell you something: as long as I'm still alive, you won't take so much as a hair off my back!"Richard's dementia had left his memory badly scrambled. He didn't even remember that he'd already handed over control long ago and hadn't been head of the family in years. Day-to-day matters like this were generally left to Scott to handle; Sharon had never involved herself in any of it. When word of this reached her, she didn't even bother coming back.Back before his mind had started slipping, every time Richard saw Sharon, he'd call her Shayla and go on accusing her of being coldheart

Victoria couldn't believe words like that were actually coming out of her own daughter's mouth. "I'm your birth mother!" she snapped. "How dare you say something like that to me?!"Riley looked her up and down, contempt plain on her face. "Birth mother? Looking as ugly as you do now, you think you're fit to call yourself my mother? Let me be honest with you: even if there's still a place for me in the Kalen family, I'm never bringing an embarrassment like you along with me. "Don't think I don't know all about the mess you made back then. If you hadn't been running around behind everyone's back, do you think you'd have gotten thrown out of the house? Because of your recklessness, I've had to pay the price too. If it weren't for you, I should've grown up with a silver spoon in my mouth, instead of scraping by in some backwater fishing village!"Riley got more worked up the longer she talked, angrier by the second, and the look in her eyes as she stared at Victoria wasn't the way yo

"Shayla, I've promised you I won't see her again, and I won't have anything more to do with her. But no matter how you look at it, the child is innocent. My blood runs through her too. Our family hasn't fallen so far that we can't afford to raise one more child. So I want to bring her into the Kalen household."When Shayla's eyes fluttered open, hazy and unfocused, a figure both foreign and achingly familiar came into view. A young, handsome face swam into focus in front of her.The man went on, "I know you can't stand Audrey, but she did save my life. I promise you, after this, I will never see her again."Words so familiar, so achingly familiar...Wasn't this exactly the day Audrey had died in that car crash, the very day Richard had told her Audrey had given birth to his child? But hadn't she already died? Why was she back in the Kalen household? The man in front of her looked just like Richard had back in his younger years.Had everything that happened before just been a dre

Richard's dark eyes turned cold, his voice dropping to an icy edge. "Are you threatening me?""Richard," Shayla said evenly, "the more power you hold, the more responsibility comes with it." She looked up at him, her expression soft and gentle, but every word out of her mouth landed like a blade of ice, striking straight at his weak point. "As the head of the Kalen Group, if word gets out that you're openly having an affair and parading your mistress around in public, that woman of yours is going to become the most hated name in the city. No one's going to stand behind an affair like that. "The Kalen Group's stock will take a hit the moment the scandal breaks. Not a single shareholder is going to support you being with Audrey. I'd honestly love to watch you go to war with the entire world for Audrey's sake. It should be quite the moving spectacle."Richard laughed. "Shayla, don't forget, I've never had much attachment to the Kalen Group. Whether it goes bankrupt or collapses en