Loving Mom 117

Chapter 117

Sharon didn’t quite understand what Matty meant at first.

Matty said softly, “I just checked-everything Theo’s table ordered was exactly the same as ours. Sharon told me Theo’s allergic to nuts. But we did order a slice of nut-filled cake.”

Sharon turned her gaze toward Kelly, her voice cold. “Anything you’d like to say now?”

Kelly didn’t bother putting up a front anymore. She lowered her head and conceded, “I’m sorry. I didn’t know the filling had

nuts.”

Carter stepped in, his patience seeming to fray. “Sharon, do you have to go after Kelly like this? She didn’t know there were nuts in the cake. It was Theo who saw what you were eating and insisted on ordering the same thing. This has nothing to do with Kelly.”

Sharon turned her eyes to him. “Fine. She didn’t know Theo had a nut allergy. Then what about you? As his father, you didn’t know either?”

her gaze. “I don’t really eat desserts, so I didn’t realize cakes could contain

is lactose intolerant. Cakes like that-cream-based desserts-are things he absolutely can’t eat. You didn’t know there were nuts in the cake, fine.

drained from

them they can’t have it, the more they

twisted logic you used to convince

like a scolded schoolgirl caught in a lie.

unrelenting tone. “Sharon, Kelly’s not wrong. Letting him eat it in

letting up. “Better? He ended up convulsing from an allergic reaction. He nearly died.

Carter fell silent.

said quietly, “This

a cold,

Matty, who had been sitting quietly beside her, suddenly spoke

down at him.

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