Side Chick Era... Over

Loving Mom 359

Chapter 359

Theo spoke quietly, “Telling Mom wouldn’t have changed anything. She was tripped by those men, and not a single person stood up for her. No one defended her. Instead, everyone laughed at her. Mom is weak… She doesn’t have the power to solve these problems for me.

“And just now…when Bob’s mom found out Mom was Matty’s guardian, Bob’s mom demanded that Matty kneel and apologize. She wasn’t scared of Mom at all.” His hands clenched at his sides. “If it had been me who messed up today… would she have told me to kneel too?”

Both Carter and Xavier turned to look at Mrs. Cosgrove.

Mrs. Cosgrove’s face drained of all color, legs visibly shaking under their stares.

Theo’s voice dropped lower, “Grandma always says… I’m the future heir of the Biggs family. I have to handle things on my own. I can’t run to the adults every time something goes wrong.”

Xavier’s dark eyes deepened, as though some storm was brewing quietly behind them.

A child raised in love was so different from one who lacked love growing up.

Someone like Theo, brilliant as he was academically-always ranked top, always praised for his smarts -was still only five. But a five-year-old forced to internalize lessons about power and

made sense now. He only acted like that with her… because it was the only place he felt

rarer it was, the more

always known that if you wanted something, you had to grip it tight. Hold on. Never let it

the entire room

like dirt in public… the real reason is simple. It’s

the air. His razor-sharp words were cruel

child watches his own mother get humiliated,” he went on, “and instead of anyone standing up for her, what happens? He’s told to endure it. To handle it

gaze cut through Mrs. Cosgrove before

Xavier’s smile was soft. But every word hit like a blade. “Only useless

if I’m guessing right, you still don’t understand why Sharon divorced you. You probably think she overreacted. That she’s the difficult one. You don’t

nobodies think they can humiliate her. Even children think it’s okay to mock her. And

Carter… don’t you think… as a