Loving Mom 8
Chapter 8
She rubbed her eyes, trying to make sure she hadn’t seen it wrong
Beside her, Theo noticed Marie’s odd behavior and couldn’t help asking, “Marie, what’s wrong?”
Cautiously, Matie handed her phone to Carter. “Sir, it’s…”
Carter lowered his gaze/
Sharon had left the group chat.
His face darkened.
The next moment, his phone rang.
Kelly’s choked sobs came through the receiver. “Carter… what should we do? Sharon seems really upset…”
Carter suddenly thought of Sharon.
He rarely saw her cry.
The only time she had, it was after she pushed Kelly into the water and landed her in the ICU–still, she stubbornly refused to admit fault.
To punish her, he took Theo back to his parents‘ home and told Sharon that if she didn’t apologize, she’d never see Theo again.
At the time, Theo was suffering from a relapse of his old illness and running a dangerously high fever.
Sharon chased them to the estate, but he hadn’t allowed anyone to let her in.
That night, a torrential rainstorm swept in.
Everyone had been too busy tending to Theo’s fever to remember she was waiting outside.
It wasn’t until the butler quietly reminded him that he even remembered she was there.
She was brought in, soaked to the bone.
That was the first time he saw her cry.
Kelly’s weepy voice dragged him out of the memory.
“I just saw… Sharon left the group. Carter, maybe we should just let it go. If she doesn’t want to make the medicinal meals for me, let’s not trouble her…”
For some reason, an uneasy restlessness stirred in him.
He said, “Alright.”
went silent for a moment, seemingly caught off
said calmly, “Since the medicinal dishes help your condition, I’ll have
tried to refuse. “Carter, that’s not
medicinal dishes tasted
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ones Sharon made. Every dish had gone straight down
menus she sent were just her way of making things
real motives, gave no room for argument. “It’s settled. I have things to take care of. I’ll hang
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dead before she could say
blank screen,
A personal caretaker?
she didn’t eat those meals properly, and the staff reported back
Her jaw clenched.
She must be behind
Her resentment deepened.
Marie almost broke into celebration. She was finally free of this thankless job–if she could, she would’ve popped a
cooking could be seen as a way to nurture
cooking every single
was there between that and
house got angry enough to
up, Carter turned to his son. “Sit and eat. I’ll
his eyes
with, and the recent string of late nights was starting
and son sat facing each
Theo’s daily care and
work,
the silence, something
no matter how much
spoiled by Sharon. He just couldn’t get used to
the table, his
things you said yesterday–who
Carter staring straight
speak, Carter
his mom, but he was always
lowered his eyes. “…No.
Carter, that very hesitation looked
what she taught him at
mirthless chuckle escaped
a child properly, maybe she should take
he turned
Chapter 8
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