Side Chick Era... Over

Loving Mom 88

Chapter 88

Just as she stepped into the living room, Sharon unexpectedly caught sight of Theo.

Theo turned his head sharply away the moment her gaze met his, letting out a loud “hmph,” his delicate little face set in a frosty

scowl.

Everything about him said: I’m not going to talk to you-better start begging for my attention.

Sharon’s eyes shifted calmly away.

Madeline slammed her hand on the table. The teacups and pot on it clattered sharply, the porcelain ringing in protest.

Her face was cold and unyielding. “Sharon, do you know what you’ve done wrong?”

Sharon furrowed her brows but said nothing.

Back then, she used to see the Biggs family through rose-colored glasses. She even believed Madeline’s constant belittling. Over time, she began to doubt herself-began to think she truly wasn’t good enough for them.

to see Madeline as someone

woman who once seemed so noble and refined looked… rather

Sharon, then spoke, “Mom, what’s going

exploded, yanking up Theo’s sleeve to reveal the bruises underneath.” This wife of yours incited another child to bully

forgiveness, she can forget about ever stepping foot in this house

his grandmother behind him, Theo’s little face lifted with

said.

apologize, he’d be sure not to forgive her so easily. Right-and she’d have to apologize to Kelly,

stared at the bruises on Theo’s arm, his brow deeply furrowed. “What

named Matty who bullies him every day. The bruises on his arm are

lowered her voice. “Theo says Sharon never comes home anymore, never takes care of him. Instead,

to live on? And yet you abandon your own child just

just as everyone expected Sharon to lower

That’s not shameful. When I wasn’t working, you called me a housewife living off a man. Now that I’m working, you say I’m disgracing the family. So which is it—should I work, or stay at

first reaction wasn’t reflection. It was

“You dare talk back?!”

not everything you don’t want to hear counts as talking