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.

trying to comfort her. She didn’t argue. “If anything

wired money into

that he didn’t need to-that she genuinely liked Matty and wasn’t doing it

Business was

Carter had wired her had been completely spent, just a few more months with Matty and

stepped into the kindergarten, he noticed a cluster of kids stood off to the side,

parents, catching sight of him, quickly grabbed their children and

used to be on good terms with him now

blank, and then walked

teachers saw him come in and exchanged looks-complicated ones, full of pity. But no one came

like this for

the students-dared speak to him.

an island,

stepped into the classroom and spotted him sitting alone, quietly

though Theo

isolated and silent, filled him with a

sneered. “Bad kid… what, did everyone figure out who you really are? Is that why no one wants to

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