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

wired money

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

insisted. Business was business. Personal was

a few more months with Matty and Sharon would be

the kindergarten, he noticed a cluster of kids stood

few parents, catching sight of him, quickly grabbed their children and walked away, as if

good

once, expression blank, and then walked straight into his

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

like this for

the teachers nor the students-dared

an island, completely cut off

into the classroom and spotted him sitting alone, quietly reading from his foreign

ostracized, though

Seeing, Matty sitting there, isolated and silent, filled him with a kind

did everyone figure out who you really are? Is that why no one wants to talk to

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