Side Chick Era... Over

Loving Mom 347

Chapter 347

Matty was the future heir of the Cooper family. If he couldn’t even handle conflicts with a few kids, then maybe he wasn’t fit to

be an heir at all.

This was exactly why Xavier had never once stepped in-not even when he saw Matty come home bruised because of Theo.

His way of raising Matty had its upsides and downsides. As far as grooming an heir went, it worked. But emotionally… it was

cold. Far too cold.

Hearing Sharon worry about whether Matty was being bullied, Xavier couldn’t help but chuckle amusedly.

“Sharon,” he said, “it’s always Matty bullying other people. No one’s capable of bullying him. That little brat’s got plenty of fight in him.”

The truth was, Matty had a kind of innate coldness to him. He cared deeply-but only about the people and things that truly mattered to him. For everything else, he showed an indifference that felt far too detached for someone his age.

It wasn’t like he was a child at all.

Thinking back to the environment Matty had grown up in, Xavier could only sigh inwardly.

her. She didn’t argue. “If anything happens with Matty, please let me know

month, Xavier wired money into her account

him over and over that he didn’t need to-that she genuinely liked Matty and

Xavier insisted. Business was business. Personal was

had wired her had been completely spent, just a few more months

morning, as soon as Matty stepped into the kindergarten, he noticed a cluster of kids

sight of him, quickly grabbed their children

the kids who used to be on good terms with him now hurried

them once, expression blank, and then walked straight into his

exchanged looks-complicated ones, full of pity. But no one came over to

like

teachers nor the students-dared speak to him. Everyone kept their

moment, Matty was like an island, completely cut off

him sitting alone, quietly reading from his foreign language

suddenly ostracized, though

there, isolated and silent,

figure out who you really are? Is that

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