Side Chick Era... Over

Loving Mom 100

Chapter 100

Instead of blaming Theo for his outburst, everyone turned sympathetic eyes toward him.

Their gazes shifted to Sharon-cooler now, more complicated.

Even your own son won’t choose you. That kind of rejection didn’t need to be spoken aloud-it was written in every look.

Clearly, this mother must’ve failed in more ways than one. Clearly, she hadn’t been good to the boy at all.

The teacher assigned specifically to Theo let out a quiet sigh.

“When Theo transferred to our class this semester, I thought…”

She glanced at Sharon, her voice faltering.

Though Theo had listed his mother’s contact number on his file, the woman herself had never once shown up.

The teacher’s eyes shifted to Kelly.

It had been Kelly who handled the enrollment paperwork. She’d attended the parent-child activity days. She’d even come to pick Theo up several times.

The teacher had assumed, naturally, that this was the boy’s mother.

like the type of woman who married into wealth only to spend her days shopping, playing poker,

hadn’t said a word, but already the accusations were piling up, pressing in from every corner

of triumph passed

Matty’s voice broke

“Sharon… you came.”

when they landed

with him and spoke gently, “Matty, are you

moment Matty saw her, his

okay, Sharon.” He dropped his head, like a child who knew he’d done something wrong. “I’m sorry. I… I hit

up and wiped the corner of his

slightly, revealing several long, dried scratch marks on his

out, gently

what happened

Matty’s face. He instinctively pulled his arm

Sharon… I just scratched myself by

turned serious. “Matty,

she wouldn’t back down, he finally stretched his

1/2

up his

was crisscrossed with old, crusted-over scratches-startling, angry marks