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.

Sharon’s indifference, her absence-she seemed exactly like the type of woman who married into wealth only to spend her days shopping, playing poker, and

said a word, but already the accusations were piling up, pressing in

the side, a flicker of triumph passed through

all at once, Matty’s voice

“Sharon… you came.”

her gaze, her cool eyes softening when

with him and spoke gently, “Matty, are you

her, his

head, like a child who knew he’d done something wrong. “I’m sorry. I…

and wiped the corner of

he lifted his arm, his sleeve slipped down slightly,

darkened. Her hand shot out,

happened to your

panic crossed Matty’s face. He instinctively pulled his arm behind his

Sharon… I just scratched

expression turned serious. “Matty, let

back down,

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rolled up his

old, crusted-over scratches-startling,