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?”

up at Kelly, steady and cool. “Kelly, this is my family business.

said earlier. Kelly’s eyes reddened

Theo is still a child, and as his

“How I am as a mother, how I speak to Theo-that’s my business. You don’t get to

Her words cut hard.

cheeks like a fragile flower trampled

at Sharon, voice raised. “Sharon, how can you talk to Kelly like that? Are you acting so cocky because

“Yeah, normally I don’t dare talk like this.

Nate, turning instead

leaving now. Please

won’t call you my mom anymore. You have to choose-me or

times than she could count. It wasn’t that it didn’t hurt. But by now,

numbness.

Then I choose

those words, Sharon stepped around Theo and opened

he’d been hit. He never expected her to be so

with an indifferent smile, and followed her

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