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?”

looked up at Kelly, steady and cool. “Kelly, this is my family business. You’re an outsider; you have

said earlier. Kelly’s eyes reddened instantly, her face folding

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

I am as a mother, how I speak to Theo-that’s my business. You

Her words cut hard.

Kelly’s eyes, spilling down her cheeks like a fragile flower trampled underfoot-pitiful in the

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

don’t dare talk like

Nate, turning instead to Theo, who

now. Please

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

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

numbness.

Then I choose

stepped around Theo and opened

if he’d been hit. He

everyone’s expressions, shrugged with an indifferent smile,

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