Chapter 283
The morning passed quickly.
After leaving the courthouse, Sharon and Wendy went to lunch.
But Wendy couldn’t relax. Her heart was still hanging by a thread.
“Sharon, you don’t think anything’s going to change last minute, do you?”
Sharon replied calmly, “It shouldn’t. Kelly’s not stupid. She knows better than to rush back too quickly.”
Testing the medicine took time. If Kelly submitted it one minute and returned the next with results, no one would believe it was
real.
Around two in the afternoon, Kelly finally came back, report in hand.
She was clearly impatient, desperate for Sharon and Carter to finalize the divorce then and there. But she wasn’t so reckless as to let her excitement get the better of her.
Until the signatures were down and the seal was stamped, nothing was certain.
It seemed Carter had cleared his whole day for this. Though he answered a few phone calls, he never stepped out, not once.
Seeing both Sharon and Carter still there, Kelly finally let out a breath of relief.
She handed the test report to Carter. “Carter, there’s no problem with the medicine. They even found several rare herbal ingredients-precious ones, the kind you can’t even buy on the market…”
She praised the prescription like it was a miracle cure, going on and on about the value of Uriah’s concoction. From the way she described it, you’d think it could cure anything, maybe even raise the dead.
If Sharon had said all that, no one would’ve taken it seriously. But coming from Kelly, it carried a different weight. 1
By the time she finished talking, it was almost like she believed it too.
“Carter, the doctor said this might really have some miraculous effect. It could even cure me.”
Carter nodded slowly. “All right. Got it.”
Then he turned and spotted Sharon, sitting a few feet away, watching like she was enjoying a particularly amusing play.
His eyes darkened. “It’s done,” he said to her.
Sharon stood and walked over, pausing to flash Kelly a brief smile.
“Thank you, Kelly, for having such faith in Mr. Malcolm’s medicine.”
Kelly clenched her teeth at the remark.
Those pills were nothing more than protein supplements dressed up as rare herbal medicine. Whether Sharon had figured out Uriah was a fraud, Kelly didn’t know. But at this point, it didn’t really matter.
She’d gotten what she wanted. That was enough.
Even if it cost her a little-so what? It was worth it.
The clerk ran through the formalities one more time, asking both Sharon and Carter if they had any intention of canceling the divorce.
They both answered no.
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And just like that, the papers were signed, the seal stamped.
When the divorce certificate was finally handed over, Sharon felt a strange sense of disorientation
She was really out. Out of a marriage that had never been right, that had been more suffocating than anything else.
She didn’t feel sad, nor did she feel regret. Only a deep, weightless sense of relief.
When Wendy saw Sharon walk out with the certificate in hand, her voice trembled with excitement. “Sharon, you really did it?”
Off to the side, Nate scoffed with a sneer. “Wow, some ‘best friend’ you are. Rooting for your friend to get divorced? That’s what you call loyalty? Guess trash really does find its own kind.”
Wendy laughed. “You describing yourself now? Nobody wanted that divorce more than you. Seriously, the way you obsess over Carter-anyone would think you’re in love with him. Why else would you keep sticking your nose in his marriage like it’s your
own?” (1)
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