Side Chick Era Over (Sharon and Carter) novel Chapter 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.

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

Every month, Xavier wired money into her account without fail.

She had told him over and over that he didn’t need to-that she genuinely liked Matty and wasn’t doing it for the money.

But Xavier insisted. Business was business. Personal was personal.

And while the 100 million Carter had wired her had been completely spent, just a few more months with Matty and Sharon would be close to financial freedom anyway.

The next morning, as soon as Matty stepped into the kindergarten, he noticed a cluster of kids stood off to the side, pointing and whispering about him.

A few parents, catching sight of him, quickly grabbed their children and walked away, as if avoiding something contagious.

Even the kids who used to be on good terms with him now hurried to distance themselves.

Matty glanced at them once, expression blank, and then walked straight into his classroom.

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

It had been like this for days now.

No one-neither the teachers nor the students-dared speak to him. Everyone kept their distance.

At that moment, Matty was like an island, completely cut off from the world.

Theo stepped into the classroom and spotted him sitting alone, quietly reading from his foreign language workbook.

Matty had been suddenly ostracized, though Theo wasn’t exactly sure why.

Not that it mattered. Seeing, Matty sitting there, isolated and silent, filled him with a kind of wicked satisfaction.

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

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Theo knew exactly what it felt like to be the one everyone ignored.

That time in his life had felt like an endless nightmare-all because he had a mother people looked down on.

Back then, he hadn’t known how to explain it to his mom. So he turned to his grandma for help.

Grandma had told him he’d be transferring to a new kindergarten. And when he got there, he must never admit that Sharon was his mother. If he did that, no one would laugh at him or shut him out ever again.

And sure enough, it worked.

Now, with no one daring to talk to Matty, Theo was the only one bold enough to approach him.

Matty gave him a glance, said nothing, and dropped his gaze back to the pages in front of him.

Theo stood there a moment longer, irritated by the lack of reaction, then huffed and retreated to his seat.

After lunch, Matty walked back toward the classroom alone.

Suddenly, a little girl about his age pulled him into a corner.

“Matty,” she whispered, “do you know why nobody’s talking to you anymore?”

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