Side Chick Era... Over

Loving Mom 119

Chapter 119

“You owe Matty an apology, Kelly,” Sharon said.

But Kelly didn’t even glance at Sharon. Instead, she turned quickly to Carter, her voice laced with urgency.

“Carter, I didn’t. I swear I didn’t push him…”

Carter’s eyes flickered, and just as he was about to speak, Matty’s voice cut in first. “Sharon, let it go. Don’t ruin your relationship with Kelly and Theo’s daddy because of me. I wanted to save Theo. No matter how badly I got hurt, it was my own

choice.

“Daddy says we shouldn’t use our injuries or sacrifices to morally guilt others. And Kelly is a grown-up. Grown-ups don’t have to apologize to kids, right?”

Coming from a five-year-old, the words carried a sting of irony that couldn’t be ignored.

Everyone present, aside from Matty, was someone close to Theo. And Kelly had always put on the face of someone wholly devoted to him. Yet now, the person who had risked his life to save Theo was standing there, wounded and wronged-receiving neither thanks nor an ounce of kindness from Kelly or Carter.

It was laughable. Ridiculous.

Even if Carter had the urge to take Kelly’s side, there was no way he could push back against a child.

pause, he

at him,

apologize on her own, that was one thing.

Her eyes reddened.

“Carter, I really didn’t…”

saved Theo’s life. For Theo’s sake, thanking Matty-or

her, gaze steady and quiet. “Or is it that,

The gentle, pitiful mask she wore

her-this scene felt

pairs of eyes watching

this her usual

snapped to

kid… was playing her own game against

Matty noticed her gaze, he looked up, blinking innocently. “Sharon, it’s okay, really.

understood how Sharon

Beaten-by

welled up in her chest, but she forced herself

time… That’s why I

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