Side Chick Era... Over

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?”

and cool. “Kelly, this is my family business. You’re an outsider;

repeated exactly what Carter had said earlier. Kelly’s eyes reddened instantly, her face folding into a look of

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

mother, how I speak to Theo-that’s my business.

Her words cut hard.

down her cheeks like a fragile flower trampled

how can you talk to Kelly like that? Are you acting so cocky because someone’s got your

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

turning instead to Theo, who was blocking the

leaving now. Please

I won’t call you my mom anymore. You have

sentence more times than she could count. It wasn’t

numbness.

Then I

stepped around Theo and

if he’d been hit. He never expected

expressions, shrugged with an indifferent smile, and followed