All Chapters of Side Chick Era… Over: Chapter 2511 - Chapter 2520

Just then, a car sped past and crushed the phone flat against the pavement.Thomas watched the car disappear, his eyes deepening slightly."Thomas, I'm so sorry," Meredith said, looking apologetic. "I tripped on something without meaning to. Let me buy you a new one to make up for it?"He looked at her, an unreadable smile crossing his face."Sure. I won't say no to that."Meredith let out a breath of relief. "No need to thank me, this was my fault to begin with."After dropping off the sheet music in Sharon's office, Meredith insisted on taking Thomas straight out to buy a replacement phone. He didn't refuse.She bought him a model identical to the one he'd had before, apologized once more, and then left.Thomas turned the new phone over in his hands, a look of unreadable depth in his eyes....Three days later, Sharon sat staring grimly at the investigation report spread across her desk.Wendy simply couldn't accept it. "This... this can't be right. There's no way Thomas w

Just then, the hacker beside them spoke up. "There's nothing useful on this phone."Julliard asked, "What about the old, broken one?"Meredith said, "It was smashed beyond repair at the time. There was no point fixing it, so it went straight in the trash."Julliard looked at Sharon. "Sharon, isn't it a strange coincidence that Thomas's phone just happened to break right after your bid failed? Did Meredith really just drop it, or did she use that as an excuse to destroy it for him?"Thomas let out a light sigh. "Your imagination is really something else. An ordinary accident, and you're already pinning the whole thing on me."Julliard scoffed. "Whether it's a frame-up or not, we'll find out soon enough. Don't think that staging an accident to break the phone and then tossing it out counts as destroying the evidence."The way Julliard put it, it was as if Thomas had deliberately broken the phone himself.He turned to Sharon. "Sharon, you could send someone to retrieve that old pho

Watching Thomas's retreating back, a flash of frustration surfaced in Julliard's eyes."Sharon, are you really just going to let him off like this? Letting a tiger return to the mountains is dangerous..."This time, it was Wendy who cut Julliard off."Julliard, this is Sharon's decision to make. Let it go."She used to think Julliard was gentle and considerate. Why was he being so tone-deaf all of a sudden? Sure, it was very possible Thomas had gotten close to Sharon on purpose. But what if he hadn't? Thomas had saved Sharon's life once, after all. Taking matters into their own hands without any real evidence — what kind of person would repay a debt like that with cruelty?Sharon closed her eyes. "I'm a little tired. All of you go on ahead — I'd like some time alone."Julliard could tell Sharon was in a bad mood, and in the end he didn't push further. Forget it — they hadn't known each other that long anyway, and Sharon didn't have particularly deep feelings for Thomas. He'

Meredith bit her lip. "No one put me up to it. My mother's seriously ill and needs surgery money right away. The Malcolms happened to approach me at just the right time, so I agreed. "Afterward, I knew Miss McKinzie would investigate, so I pinned it on Thomas instead. He came from nowhere; he'd only been by Miss McKinzie's side a short time, and he's lost his memory — she was never going to trust him completely. He was the perfect person to frame."Wendy asked angrily, "If you needed money, why not just tell Sharon? Do you really think she'd refuse to lend it to you?""I could have asked Miss McKinzie for a loan," Meredith said. "But she can help me once — she's not obligated to help me forever. There's a saying: help in an emergency, not out of poverty. "My mother's illness is a bottomless pit. It needs money poured into it constantly. I can't keep going back to Miss McKinzie every single time I need more for medical bills. "A debt too large becomes resentment over time, and

When had she become someone so self-serving? Just a few words from Julliard, and she'd let herself doubt Thomas and guard against him at every turn. That was no way to treat someone who'd saved her life.The more Sharon thought about it, the more suffocated and full of regret she felt.The car sped along and soon reached the beach. At some point, it had started raining outside — the drops struck the window glass with a dull, steady patter.Sharon got out with an umbrella up.Under the beachfront streetlights, she spotted a figure sitting on the rocks in the distance.The sea wind was strong, whipping her long hair into disarray. Cold gusts mixed with rain lashed at her face, carrying a faint, bone-deep chill.Wendy moved to follow her, but Sharon stopped her."Wendy, it's cold out, and it's raining. Wait for me in the car — don't catch a cold.""It's fine," Wendy said. "One more person there to talk him down might make him come around faster.""This is the consequence of my ow