Loving Mom 65

Chapter 65

Theo’s face set stubbornly. “I’m not apologizing to him.”

Sharon didn’t push. She simply said, “If you don’t want to apologize, then step aside.”

There was a time when Sharon moved around Theo like a shadow, always busy with him. Now, she was cold-almost indifferent –and telling him to apologize to another child. That kind of change was hard for Theo to accept.

“I won’t let you take care of him!” Theo snapped.

Sharon’s voice was calm, almost teasing. “Why should I listen to you?”

“Because you’re my mom!”

“Mom?” Sharon smiled softly, a quiet irony in her tone. “Aren’t I just your nanny?”

Theo was left speechless, eyes wide.

Kelly frowned, clearly uncomfortable. “Sharon, kids say what they think. Theo’s still little. Why argue with a child?”

“Kelly, this is my family business. You’re an

eyes

turn. I just think Theo is still a child, and as his mother, Sharon, you shouldn’t talk

as a mother, how I speak to Theo-that’s my business. You don’t get to teach me. Our

Her words cut hard.

spilling down her cheeks like a fragile

how can you talk to Kelly like that? Are you

talk like this. Four against one isn’t fair, you

instead to Theo, who was blocking

leaving now.

teeth. “If you leave today, I won’t call you my mom anymore.

count. It wasn’t that it didn’t hurt.

numbness.

I

Sharon stepped around Theo and opened

frozen, stunned, as if he’d been hit.

at everyone’s expressions, shrugged with an indifferent smile,

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