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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.

meanwhile, simply assumed Xavier was trying to comfort her. She didn’t argue. “If anything happens with Matty, please let me know right away,”

month, Xavier wired money into her account

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

insisted. Business was business.

spent, just a few more months with Matty and Sharon

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

grabbed their children and walked away, as if avoiding

to be on good terms with

expression blank, and then walked straight into

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

been like this

nor the students-dared speak to him.

that moment, Matty was like an island,

him sitting alone, quietly reading

ostracized, though

and silent,

sneered. “Bad kid… what, did everyone figure out who you

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