The Ex-Wife's Burning Elegance

Chapter 361

Every day, they mocked him for having an embarrassing mother, and eventually, he just couldn't take it anymore-he ended up fighting with the three of them.

But he was no match for them, not even close.

Afterward, their ridicule only got worse.

They even rallied other kids to join in, all ganging up to laugh at him together.

Back in his old preschool, there was nothing he dreaded more than running into those three boys.

And yet—unbelievably—they'd transferred here, too.

The boys swaggered over, quickly and expertly hemming Keen O'Brien in.

Panic flickered in Keen's eyes.

The ringleader, Sheldon Ayers, fixed his beady gaze on Keen's delicate, striking face, a hint of jealousy glinting beneath his scowl.

Sheldon had never liked Keen. In fact, he'd disliked him for as long as he could remember.

not. Whenever Sheldon brought home a bad grade, she'd sigh, "Look

basic addition and subtraction again, I'll never understand

time chasing women instead of doing anything useful! At least your dad can run a

foreign languages, and you can't even string together a

solves Rubik's cubes for fun, and you're still

honestly

Soon, all he felt

weren't for Keen, his mom wouldn't be

Keen transferred to a new preschool a while ago, Sheldon was

using Keen as the

after hearing about Keen's new school, Sheldon's mom tracked it down. When she found out all the kids there had to pass a language test, she hired a private tutor for Sheldon. Every day, he was drilled on vocabulary.

toward Keen

that once he got into that new preschool,

up with two other boys who couldn't stand Keen either, determined to make sure Keen would never dare show his face around here

finally stop comparing

Connolly glanced at

no intention of

the one

in and day out, but deep down, he was jealous—jealous of Keen, more